Jahanzeb Khan,* School of Accounting and Finance, & Pamela Roberts, Division of Student Learning, Faculty of Business, Justice, and Behavioural Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Australia
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This paper examines the potential of blogs to instil professional skills and perspectives that undergraduate accounting students require to become competent professionals in a global economy. Blogs provide a compelling platform for engaging teachers and students in discourse on media articles that examine real world accounting challenges, fallacies, and questionable practices. Blogs are an effective online learning technology that encourages critical thinking, reflection and formative feedback. Making use of CSU Thinkspace as a learning platform in an undergraduate accounting subject, preliminary evidence regarding the effectiveness of blogging for developing professional understandings and higher order thinking skills, is discussed.
Keywords: accounting, blog, professional ethics, distance learning
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/in 2020 Conference, 2020 Digital ShowcaseScaling up Active Learning in Charles Sturt University’s Learning Spaces
/in #active-learning, #eLearning, #engagement, #excellence, #learning, #resources, #students, #teaching, 2018 ProceedingsPhilip Hua, Charles Sturt University, Australia
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Charles Sturt University provides learning spaces that stimulate active learning by aligning spaces, pedagogy, technologies, furniture, and strategy. At its core this strategy comes down to marrying digital and physical means to educational ends. The visual materials presented here display award-winning learning spaces on some of CSU’s eight campuses in New South Wales along with reflections on how effective these spaces have proven to be. They explore how people are creatively using blended — physical and digital — spaces, and the optimal design and layout of such spaces.
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Sessional Staff Traversing Diverse Learning Spaces: A Review
/in #careers, #excellence, #faculty-development, #learning, #students, #teaching, 2018 ProceedingsPrue Gonzalez,* School of Environmental Sciences, and Phillip Ebbs, School of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Australia
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Sessional academic staff are employed in a number of academic roles, from lecturing to field trips to course improvement. What distinguishes them from other academic staff is that they are employed on a short-term, contract basis, much like adjunct faculty in the United States. Today they are a dominant feature of the global higher education workforce whose contributions over the past 20 years have been significant.
It is conservatively estimated that sessional academics deliver more than 40% of university teaching in Australia, where the authors live and teach. While the higher education sector’s reliance upon these staff is expected to increase, our knowledge and understanding of these staff is poor. This compromises the development of policies, strategies and programs designed to engage, support and improve the high quality contributions of the sessional academic workforce over a sustained period. A more informed approach to sessional academic engagement, support and quality improvement is an essential component to operating effectively in a modern higher education sector. This paper reviews the challenges associated with the effective and sustainable engagement of the Australian sessional academic workforce.
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Changing Learning Spaces for Changing Learning Needs in Higher Education
/in #eLearning, #engagement, #learning, #resources, #students, #teaching, 2018 ProceedingsBob Fox,* Mark King, and Dinesh Paikeday, Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of New South Wales, Australia
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The University of New South Wales (UNSW) 2025 strategy supports new designs to facilitate better learning experiences for its students. This includes (re)developing many large first-year courses using more open and blended learning methods. This in turn has led to a re-examination of the University’s physical learning spaces.
This paper explores local and international case studies of different learning spaces and how new digital technologies and more student-centred learning approaches are leading to demands for new learning environments to suit changing needs in learning and teaching. The paper outlines what UNSW is doing to meet the challenges it faces for new physical learning spaces.
Keywords: Learning spaces, online-blended teaching, student learning
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Developing a Learning Analytics Tool to Empower Teachers to Conduct Analysis of Learners Online Behavior
/in #assessment, #data-centric, #engagement, #excellence, #learning, #resources, #students, #teaching, 2018 ProceedingsDr Christine Armatas,* Ada Tse, & Chun Sang Chan, Educational Development Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and Bruce Li, School of Accounting and Finance, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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A tool for conducting analysis of students’ learning management system (LMS) behavior shows promise for putting powerful learning analytics (LA) capabilities into the hands of front-line teachers. The combination of advanced analyses and visualisations with explanations to aid interpretation and guide action provides teachers with LA capabilities not previously available. Teachers can use the tool as an early warning system, to predict student performance and to analyse discussion posting information. While teachers’ feedback on the tool is positive, this initiative has highlighted remaining challenges, which include ensuring that data is available for analysis and user perceptions of the tool and its usefulness.
Keywords: learning management systems, Excel tool, learning analytics, teacher development
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Design and Practice of Presentation Training in Open Situation for University Students
/in #active-learning, #business-education, #careers, #engagement, #learning, #pedagogical-philosophy, #presenting, #students, #teaching, #teamwork, #writing, 2018 ProceedingsAya Inaura,* & Hirotaka Uoi, Department of Digital Games, and Hiroshi Yokoyama, Department of Games & Media, Faculty of Information Science and Arts, Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan
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In recent years, some colleges and universities in Japan have put effort into Presentation Training. Such training may concern not only presentations in class, but also competitions, contests, and workshops. At the Osaka Electro-Communication University, we designed a workshop for presentation training and practice that has been offered since 2012. It differs from other universities’ practices in featuring more varied audiences and presenters than customary. We believe that if we can supply presentation training in open situations for students, we can bring their presentation skills to a higher level.
Keywords: presentation training, workshop
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CSU Thinkspace: Using Media Articles within the Blogspace to Enhance Discourse in Accounting Education
/in #active-learning, #business-education, #careers, #engagement, #incentives, #learning, #pedagogical-philosophy, #students, #teaching, #teamwork, #writing, 2018 ProceedingsJahanzeb Khan,* School of Accounting and Finance, & Pamela Roberts, Division of Student Learning, Faculty of Business, Justice, and Behavioural Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Abstract
This paper examines the potential of blogs to instil professional skills and perspectives that undergraduate accounting students require to become competent professionals in a global economy. Blogs provide a compelling platform for engaging teachers and students in discourse on media articles that examine real world accounting challenges, fallacies, and questionable practices. Blogs are an effective online learning technology that encourages critical thinking, reflection and formative feedback. Making use of CSU Thinkspace as a learning platform in an undergraduate accounting subject, preliminary evidence regarding the effectiveness of blogging for developing professional understandings and higher order thinking skills, is discussed.
Keywords: accounting, blog, professional ethics, distance learning
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