Innovations in Education and Teaching International back issues from November 2007:
Supporting off-shore students: a preliminary study
Nov 01, 2007; ... This paper reports on the first part of a recent research study into current initiatives to support the learning of non-English speaking background (NESB) transnational students in Asia who are studying off-shore at Australian universities. Learning support and development staff in 12 ...
EDITORIAL
Nov 01, 2007; ... Three of the papers in this edition take a student-centred focus enquiring about the ways in which we might engage students in their learning, involve them in collaboration which can model good professional behaviour, and support them in their learning in terms of skills, language, editing, and ...
Hand-held video for clinical skills teaching
Nov 01, 2007; ... In health care education a balance needs to be struck between theoretical and practical teaching. Undergraduates typically split their time between clinical placement and university-based teaching blocks. A proportion of the time spent in preparation for clinical practice placements will be ...
Teaching history to political science students: historiography as part of political process
Nov 01, 2007; ... In the paper we attempt to address principal issues of political history as part of the political science curriculum today, ranging from 'what to teach' to 'how to teach'. Assuming the necessity in contemporary information society of selecting information rather than only accessing it, we ...
The role of engagement in inspiring teaching and learning
Nov 01, 2007; ... The aim of the paper is to integrate notions of the improvement of student learning through a focus on the concept of engagement, and adds to that broader discussion through a recent empirical study of the perceptions of students gathered through a case study in a UK university. It is proposed ...
Improving learning performance in laboratory instruction by means of SMS messaging
Nov 01, 2007; ... The study described in this paper outlines an attempt to explore those factors that contribute to learning performance improvement in laboratory instruction. As a case study, the educational methodology involved in a basic microcontroller course was analyzed. Traditional lab sessions based on ...
Audio and video podcasts of lectures for campus-based students: production and evaluation of student use
Nov 01, 2007; ... Podcasting has become a popular medium for accessing and assimilating information and podcasts are increasingly being used to deliver audio recordings of lectures to campus-based students. This paper describes a simple, cost-effective and file size-efficient method for producing video podcasts ...