...update teaching methods. Student competencies are developed and improved. All students assumed capable. | Assessment is linked to proof of knowledge: Students are tested to prove knowledge of content and are classified according to scores. Some are weeded out, not allowed to graduate or have to re-take the test or entire course. | Classroom Environment | The classroom environment is important to teaching and learning: The physical space is adjusted to meet learner diversity. Desk and classroom arrangement promotes interactivity, active learning, and positive interaction. The climate is flexible and meets the diversity of all learner needs. Cooperation and active learning is emphasized through a variety of student-centered activities. | The environment is not a consideration for teaching and learning: The physical space is not orderly or organized and does not promote active learning and positive interaction. No thought of learner interaction considered for classroom arrangement. The rigid climate is not flexible or responsive to learners. May promotes strong competitiveness and does not sufficiently foster cooperation and/or active learning. | Responsibilities | Professionalism is an important attribute in education: The instructor must be...
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...Running head: PARADIGM EVALUATION OF LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Paradigm Evaluation of Learning Environments Carolyn Gantt EDA-575 Educational Leadership in a Changing World September 25, 2013 | |Paradigms Belief |Opposite Paradigms Belief | | 1. Planning strategically |Education is important because it provides |Due to limited finances schools are force to work | | |learning, structure and safe environment |with a Skelton staff forcing teachers to take various| | |for students. |job responsibility decreasing the ability to effetely| | | |protect the school environment. | |2. Managing conflict |Administrator who assess whether or not |An environment of conflict is administrated with the | | |they give credibility to individuals and |lack of respect of staff and stakeholders. | | |groups whose values an opinion may conflict| | | |with staff effectiveness in working with ...
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...Article published in Education Today, issue 2 of 2005, Aries Publishing Company, Thames, New Zealand. Article by: Dr Tom H Brown Deputy Director Department of Telematic Learning & Education Innovation University of Pretoria South Africa 0002 +27 12 420-3884 (Tel) +27 12 420-3828 (Fax) +27 82 908-3884 (Cell) eMail: tom.brown@up.ac.za Beyond constructivism: Exploring future learning paradigms Abstract Educational practice is continually subjected to renewal, due to developments in information and communication technology (ICT), the commercialisation and globalisation of education, social changes and the pursuit of quality. Of these, the impact of ICT and the new knowledge economy are the most significant. Changes in our educational practice lead, in turn, to changes in our approaches to teaching and learning. These changes also impact on our teaching and learning paradigms. Currently, as over the past few decades, we teach and learn in a constructivist learning paradigm. This article discusses past and present paradigm shifts in education and then explores possible future learning paradigms in the light of the knowledge explosion in the knowledge era that we are currently entering. 1. The impact of ICT on education The electronic information revolution currently experienced in the world can be compared to and reveals the same characteristics as the first information revolution started by Gutenberg’s printing press. This means that, just as present-day society accepts...
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...Running header: DIGITAL BLENDED CLASSROOM LEARNING Lloyd Wayne Murphy Digital Blended Classroom Learning the New Dawn of Learning for All Strayer University Professor Randi Fass SUMMER 2011 EDU500 August 7, 2011 The intended purpose of this thesis is to illustrate how the ensuing commencement of a new dawn of student instruction, the digital-blended-classroom-learning (DBCL) discipline is upon the academic world. The advent of the innovative blending of computers within classroom instruction referred to as digital learning by some, and by others in academic world refer the discipline as blended learning posit the possession the qualities thereof, exceptionally enhance both SDL and SRL disciplines. A wide variety of DBCL discipline programs exhibit signs of incurring the utmost in achieving efficaciously successful method of instruction with both the age of majority and minority age student proficiency, in a plethora of educational institutions, where the DBCL discipline is employed. DBCL involves the integration of computer and the Internet and Intranet into the classroom, thus allowing the communication technology as a teacher/student instruction tool, along the classroom instruction tools employed in the student’s core curriculum. DBCL disciplines demonstrate signs of the improvement of teacher/student interest, student participation, student aptitude, and of the utmost import is student academic proficiency. DBCL further reveal, when, computers...
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...challenges of replacing assessment of learning (mark and grade) which emphasizes on what the students learn with the assessment for learning (metacognitive skills) which underscores how students learn and their involvement in the assessment process through self- and peer assessment. To meet these challenges, the three interrelated realms, that is, student self-regulated learning, lecturer personality and discipline (hard-pure, hard-applied, soft-pure and soft-applied) will be presented. That is, the discussion shall focus on the six practices of assessment for learning in the context of student self-regulated learning and lecturer personality in different discipline environments. Where necessary, educational technologies will be introduced to...
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...CHAPTER 4 Research Methodology and Design 4.1 Introduction All research is based on some underlying philosophical assumptions about what constitutes 'valid' research and which research method(s) is/are appropriate for the development of knowledge in a given study. In order to conduct and evaluate any research, it is therefore important to know what these assumptions are. This chapter discusses the philosophical assumptions and also the design strategies underpinning this research study. Common philosophical assumptions were reviewed and presented; the interpretive paradigm was identified for the framework of the study. In addition, the chapter discusses the research methodologies, and design used in the study including strategies, instruments, and data collection and analysis methods, while explaining the stages and processes involved in the study. The research design for this study is a descriptive and interpretive case study that is analysed through qualitative methods. Questionnaires were used to evaluate participants’ WebCT skills (before the course starts) and to determine their levels of satisfaction in the course (at the end of the case study). A descriptive statistical method was used to analyze the student satisfaction survey. Participant observation, face-to-face interviews, focus-group interviews, questionnaires, and member checking were used as data collection methods. Furthermore, the justification for each of the data collection methods used in the study...
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...Change and Culture Case Study II: Job Redesign Duane S. Goggins-Week#5 Assignment HCS/514 January 9, 2012 Sara Brown Change and Culture Case Study II: Job Redesign To adjust to greater competition and pressures of obtaining increased organizational efficiency and cost containment, many organizations have begun to examine strategies related to restructuring and downsizing to maintain organizational viability. These processes have included mergers and acquisitions, and redefining occupational roles of workers within the organization. Consequently, successful management of the structural change process can be daunting and overwhelming if not handled in an organized and thoughtful process. Those who are responsible for the process must recognize the barrier that may be hindrances to conception and implementation of the change process These barriers include: (a) lack of concise and coordinated planning/goals, (b) resistance to change within the organizational workforce, (c) failure to consistently evaluate the progress of the proposed change within context of the entire system, and adjust methodology as necessary. Thus, in order to achieve a balance between achieving organizational goals and addressing the uncertainty that may occur in the workforce, organizational leaders are tasked with the responsibilities of finding creative means to facilitate the mandated objectives while at the same time finding vehicles to maintain adequate levels of employee satisfaction and productivity...
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...Learning Environment in Constructivist Classroom Kulamani sahoo & Anita Behera M.phil scholar Ravenshaw university,Cuttack Email: klmnsahoo@gmail.com/ anitabehera44@gmail.com Phone.no-9853555132 In this paper the author had described about the constructivist classroom and how it differs from the traditional classroom. Knowledge is not attained but constructed. This statement is a new challenge in the present classroom. Construction of understanding is a core element in the highly complex process of teaching and learning underpinned by constructivist teaching. Constructivism is the latest buzzword among the teaching community across the world and National curriculum framework (2005) has shown the direction to nit in Indian classroom situation. Constructivism basically a theory based on observation and scientific study about how people learn .the basic idea about constructivism is that the learner must construct knowledge; the teacher cannot supply it. In the constructivist classroom the teacher must encourage students to use active techniques ,e.g. experiments, real world, problem solving , to create more knowledge and then to reflect on and talk about what they are doing and how their understanding is changing. In constructivist classroom focus shifts from the teacher to the students. In constructivist classroom learning is interactive; teachers have dialogue with students. Knowledge is dynamic and changing with experience in constructivist classroom. Students...
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...2015. ABSTRACT This is a survey on the programming languages paradigm: Imperative, Scripting, logic, Functional, object oriented and Markup. Our survey work involves a comparative study of these six programming languages with respect to the above programming paradigm using the following criteria: secure programming practices, web application development, OOP-based abstractions, reflection, Reusability, Portability, Reliability, Readability, Availability of compilers and tools, Familiarity, Expressiveness We study these languages in the context of the above mentioned criteria and the level of support they provide for each one of them. TABLE OF CONTENT 1. OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PARADIGMS 1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.2 CRITERIA OF LANGUAGE COMPARISON 2. IMPERATIVE LANGUAGES 2.1 Imperative Paradigm 2.1.2 Java as an Imperative Paradigm 2.1.3 Criteria 3. SCRIPTING LANGUAGES 3.1 Scripting Paradigm 3.2 Php as an Scripting Paradigm 3.3 Criteria 4. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES 4.1 Functional Paradigm 3.2 Php as an Scripting Paradigm 3.3 Criteria 5.1 LOGIC LANGUAGES 5.1.1 Readability 5.1.2 Ease of Learning 5.1.3 Ease of Maintenance 5.1.4 Extensibility 5.1.5 Pedagogy 5.1.6 Portability 6.1 OBJECT ORIENTED LANGUAGES (OOL) 6.1.1 Readability 6.1.2 Ease of Learning 6.1.3 Ease of Maintenance 6.1.4 Extensibility 6.1.5 Pedagogy 6.1.6 Portability 7.1 MARKUP LANGUAGES 7.1.1 Readability 7.1.2 Ease of Learning 7.1 REFERENCES LIST OF FIGURES CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION...
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...A Comparative and Contrastive Study of UK and Germany from the View of Higher Vocational Education Introduction With the advent of knowledge economy and information age, research and development of technology has become the driving force of knowledge economy industry and the motivation to push forward information society which calls for corresponding technicians. However, as is reported, in the 1980s, it was apparently clear that the workforce in the UK was less well prepared for employment than in many of the countries of its competitors and only 40% of the workforce in the UK held qualifications relevant to their jobs, compared with 85% in Germany (Zuo et al. 2004). Thus, “Educational law” in 1988 confirmed that vocational education must train the applied technician for the local industrial and commercial enterprises; school running mode, combine management mode and course setting with enterprises; and highlight technical education, becoming the new type of the British vocational technical education. Therefore, for now and future, more emphases are needed to put on those technical sciences subjects which are between basic sciences and practical courses. Based on that, a safe conclusion can be drawn that higher vocational education is vital. Throughout the world, UK and Germany are two most typical countries in applied science and technology education. This essay will be stated in three main aspects: course pattern, curriculum arrangement and assessment. Course Patterns ...
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...maximize the capacitance of learning in which it became a demand to our society. It does not only limit itself to students often going to school to master and memorize the concepts/lessons he/she has acquired from their teachers, but it does apply on every field of work. However, the problem that several universities have in common with their students is that almost 1/2 of the total population from different departments suffer from failure and repetition of grades indicating lack of proper training and communication. This phenomenon until now continues to be the number one dilemma for students especially when confronting their worse, feared, or even so-called “hated” subjects. Students are also more likely to fear and feel more anxiety when it comes to quizzes and examinations regardless of a subject’s difficulty. Failing grades either indicate the laziness of a student, poor study habit, or the environment that usually affects his/her mental state. Another factor that emphasizes the importance of study habits is the stress levels of the students depending on whether they can handle demanding or strict teachers and loads of assignments along with quizzes. Studies have shown that giving too much assignments or quizzes is not healthy for learning due to stress leading to confusion, focal distraction and short attention span. Nowadays, there are several ways on how to cope up with good study habits and fight out stress and problems that may pave the way to learning. Also, due to...
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...Academic Exchange Quarterly Spring 2001: Volume 5, Issue 1 Assessing the Effectiveness of ProblemBased Learning in Higher Education: Lessons from the Literature Claire H. Major, University of Alabama Betsy Palmer, University of Iowa Major is an assistant professor of higher education administration. <cmajor@bamaed.ua.edu>. Palmer is an assistant professor in the Counseling, Rehabilitation and Student Development department <betsypalmer@uiowa.edu>. Abstract ProblemBased Learning (PBL) is an innovative educational approach that is gaining prominence in higher education. A review of the literature of PBL outcomes summarizes, across multiple studies, the positive effects of problembased learning. Since PBL brings with it unique challenges to traditional assessment, however, this study suggests alternative approaches. Alternative assessment may provide additional insight into the effectiveness of PBL and other alternative pedagogies. Introduction Traditional instruction, such as the typical lecturebased session that developed before textbooks were massproduced, often involves delivering as much information as possible as quickly as possible. The lecture method was one of the most effective and efficient ways to disseminate information and has often been used for this end. Because many faculty members are poor lecturers, and because students are often poor participants in the lecture, this type of instruction has often allowed...
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...Lloyd Wayne Murphy Product Quality Inspector Training Development Strayer University September 9, 2012 Abstract March 10, 2008, a group of four IT students: J. Group, L. Elect, K. Tronic, and M. Gadget incurred the involvement of a IT final exam studying session together on the student’s home J. Group, and during the studying session, when J. Group complained of hot the laptop felt. A heated discussion soon ensued regarding J. Group’s concern, whereof the group initiated a concept of the students forming an accord between the students to construct an electronic gadget, which would resolve the issue. Indeed, not only did the gadget soon incur construction in a reduction of the operational heat of the laptop or computer produced: the gadget, as well, enhanced a laptop’s or any computer’s speed, wherein, the gadget incurred attachment. Therefore, the students found a financial backer, N. Merchandise, to initiate the implementation of the construction of Automated Gadget and promptly filed for a LLC to form company: thereof titled Group Automated Gadget, LLC (GAG) on June 8, 2008. Product Quality Inspector Training Development The GAG board is comprised of five individuals: the four students and the financial backer, whom the board elected as President of the board, devised a stratagem of opening a small plant. The GAG board averred the organizations mission to highlight the firm’s goals: GAG product performance excellence equals customer satisfaction. The board of...
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...The world as we know it, we have witnessed profound, unprecedented changes in the physical environment, social environment, population changes, attitudes and values, education (learning to know) and technological factors. Learning is the act of obtaining new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviors, morals and abilities and involves amalgamating different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Learning is not obligatory, it is circumstantial and it does not happened all at once, but builds upon and is formed by previous knowledge. Bostrom and Lassen (2002) notes, “every child is born with an innate ability to learn and it is a pre requisite for the survival and development. Learners learn in order to know something, which this something is called knowledge.” Driver (1989) learning does not take place in a vacuum, it is an active process in which the learner uses sensory inputs and constructs meaning out of the information being passed across. The knowledge that learners need to have is fundamental to make sense of the world in which he or she lives. Therefore human knowledge is human construct as humans have constructed and amassed knowledge about the world in which they live through. The primary knowledge construct is to secure their survival as far as possible. As we human begin become more sophisticated we are cable of constructing knowledge beyond the purpose of pure survival. According to...
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...AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Every educator’s goal is to provide a learning environment that enables the students to perform their best and to attain a high grades. But in many schools, students find difficulties and obstacles to their studies, the school building itself. Some facilities have inadequate ventilation, inefficient heating and cooling systems and other can create conditions that impairs their ability to learn. Students become uncomfortable of what they are doing, the learning environment is very important factor in attaining a good academic performance. Motivated students and teachers can overcome deficient school facilities, but few would dispute the assentation that learning occurs more easily for more students, in a well-designed, well-functioning building, .Learning environment plays a very important role in teaching and learning process in such a way, that in this place, teaching and learning process occurs .Every learner is aware that they need a peaceful, quiet and clean environment so that their concentration in studying are focused only for studying alone. Students become irritated when their learning environment is untidy and noisy. More educators, architects and community workers are working to see that students and teachers have facilities to achieve their high performance. High performance schools are having facilities that enhance the learning environment for students while saving energy resources and PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG MUNTINLUPA ...
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