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Teaching Style and Attitudes towards Facebook as an Educational Tool
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Prescott, Julie – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2014
There is a distinct lack of research that has considered university staff use of and attitudes towards Facebook. The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of how teaching staff at one UK university use Facebook, and their attitudes towards Facebook and online professionalism, in terms of the student-staff relationship. An online survey…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Social Networks, Foreign Countries
Students' Experiences of Active Engagement through Cooperative Learning Activities in Lectures
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Cavanagh, Michael – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2011
This article reports on students' experiences of lectures which included many opportunities for active engagement through cooperative learning activities. At the end of a 13-week semester-long unit, 113 students completed a questionnaire which contained five open-ended questions focusing on the extent to which the students thought that the lecture…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Cooperative Learning, Course Content, Teaching Methods
Students Pay Attention! Combating the Vigilance Decrement to Improve Learning during Lectures
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Young, Mark S.; Robinson, Stephanie; Alberts, Phil – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2009
Maintaining student concentration in lectures has long been a challenge for lecturers. Pedagogical research consistently finds a drop in attention between 10 and 30 minutes into the lecture, which has been associated with the passive nature of the standard format, and has consequences for learning approaches and outcomes. A similar phenomenon has…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Lecture Method, Learner Engagement, Student Motivation