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Yaw Owusu-Agyeman; Semira Pillay – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
This study examines the insights and experiences of students about the factors that enhance relational pedagogy in a South African university. To provide empirical explanations as to how these insights could be prioritised to enhance effective teaching and learning, quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 1087 participants using a…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
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van der Merwe, Dean; Levigne-Lang, Rene – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
This paper reports on the lessons learnt from the COVID-19-induced emergency remote (online) teaching and learning of a one-year teacher education course. The final-year course, within a four-year Bachelor of Education programme, aimed at developing pre-service teachers' knowledge of the nature and process of learning and how to guide and support…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Lesson Plans, Grounded Theory
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Heather Kanuka; Cheryl Sadowski – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
The purpose of this investigation was to gain insights on facilitating a peer observation process that supports constructive feedback for continued development of effective teaching practices. The findings from this Canadian case study reveal that peer observation feedback are of value for the observed (which is well documented in the research) as…
Descriptors: Reflection, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Case Studies
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Mandalawi, Sazan M.; Henderson, Robyn; Huijser, Henk; Kek, Megan Yih Chyn A. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2022
In this paper we present a case study of doctoral study at a distance, and we explore issues of belonging, pedagogy and learning as part of that process. As a team of one doctoral researcher and three supervisors, we critically reflect on the place of belonging in the context of doctoral study by distance. In this case study, the importance of…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Doctoral Students, Distance Education, Teaching Methods
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Hyytinen, Heidi; Siven, Mia; Salminen, Outi; Katajavuori, Nina – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
Students in higher education have been shown to have difficulties in developing their critical thinking skills, such as analysis and problem solving, reasoning and argumentation. Open-ended tasks offer opportunities for students to develop their own interpretations of various sources, to critically analyse domain-specific knowledge and utilize…
Descriptors: Pharmaceutical Education, Persuasive Discourse, Cognitive Processes, Assignments
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Economou, Dorothy – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2021
The widespread, theoretically-informed practice of curricula embedded academic language and learning development is generally acknowledged as the most productive method of improving tertiary student outcomes. University-wide comprehensive support, however, for the collaborative processes of interdisciplinary research, design, resource and staff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistics, Academic Language, Teaching Methods
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Lu, Yi-Ling; Wu, Chih-Wei – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2018
Knowledge transmission and knowledge construction are two common approaches adopted for teaching and learning in higher education. Applying the two different approaches, this paper developed an evaluation model of teaching and learning, which comprises three main conceptual blocks: teaching, learning and learning assistance. A quantitative survey…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Ribeiro, Luis Roberto C. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2011
This article focuses on a teacher's evaluation of an experiment with problem-based learning (PBL) and its effects on his professional development. This case study, of a descriptive-analytical nature, involved the collaboration between the researcher and teacher in the planning, implementation of PBL and, to some extent, analysis of results.…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Participant Observation, Problem Based Learning, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Czabanowska, Katarzyna; Moust, Jos H. C.; Meijer, Andre W. M.; Schroder-Back, Peter; Roebertsen, Herma – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2012
Despite several years of successfully applying problem-based learning at Maastricht University, the Faculty of Medicine observed a slow erosion of problem-based practices and "PBL fatigue" among themselves and students. In response to this fatigue and new research into the development of the young adult brain, Active Self-Directed…
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Public Health, Problem Based Learning, Learning Processes
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Arnold, Josie – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2008
This paper explores some of the ways in which our insights into the pedagogy of postgraduate supervision may benefit from understanding some of the attributes of psychotherapy. It proposes that psychotherapy involves teaching and learning processes that can be fruitfully compared with the idealised pedagogical model of the dialectic. It develops…
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Graduate Students, Supervision, Teaching Methods
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Roettger, Caroline J.; Roettger, Lloyd O.; Walugembe, Frederick – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2007
This study focused on effective teaching strategies for university professors. The researchers studied the relationship between teaching effectiveness and the dynamics of student demographics. An examination of the changes in the composition of the college population over the last few decades, based on statistical data, as well as an overview of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Characteristics
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Nillsen, Rodney – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2005
In this paper it is argued that the concept of integrity in a person, or an activity, or an institution, is intimately connected with notions of wholeness and completeness, and that the creation of integrity consists in developing an awareness of the possibility of greater wholeness and completeness, and in creating environments in which they may…
Descriptors: Integrity, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Ethics