The document summarizes the opening session of the TEFI7 conference held in Oxford, UK in April 2013. It discusses:
1) The history, mission and goals of the Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI) network, which aims to inspire and support tourism educators.
2) Developments and activities of TEFI, including learning experiences like values inventories and implementing values in curricula.
3) Upcoming TEFI Change Conferences, inspirational gatherings for change-makers to be held in locations like Nepal, designed to facilitate reflection and exchange of experiences outside the classroom.
The document summarizes a workshop on quality dialogue held by Ingeborg Bø from Norway. It discusses models for quality assurance including certification programs like UNIQUE and the BILD Quality Mark. It also provides a case study on quality assurance from Norway including the Norwegian Association for Distance and Flexible Education (NADE) and its quality guidelines.
The document summarizes a presentation about quality assurance in e-learning. It discusses moving from inspection to inspiration by focusing on dialogue. It provides context of operations in Europe and models for quality assurance. It also discusses a case study from Norway and perspectives after 40 years in distance education with a focus on student needs, accessible technology, and a quality culture. Recommendations are made to use standard evaluation methods adapted for online learning and ensure learner support and best practices.
Even if the question of eLearning quality has been intensely discussed in the recent years, with several approaches and models arising, the implementation of concepts into practices remains contested (Elhers & Hilera, 2012 ) . Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are facing an important change:from the single institutional efforts to give answer to a very changing society and labour market to the transnational debates and pressure for HEI modernization, like the case of Bologna Process.In this context, eLearning is given different importance with regard to organizational innovation and the general HEI culture of quality (Ehlers & Schneckenberg, 2010). While it has been envisaged as the panacea to promote improvements in such different dimensions as cost-benefit ratio, access and inclusiveness, or the introduction of learner centered pedagogical approaches, very often the values and motivations entrenched in these dimensions clash and enter in more or less evident contradictions. As a result, the implementation of quality eLearning in HEI could be slowed down or blocked (Conole, Smith, & White, A critique of the impact of policy and funding, 2007).
In this article the authors introduce the results of an initial exploratory phase undertaken as part of a participatory action research funded by the Italian Ministry of Education PRIN (Research Project of National Interest, “Progetto di Ricerca d’Interesse Nazionale”) namely, “Evaluation for the improvement of educational contexts. A research involving University and local communities in the participatory development of innovative assessment models”.
On the basis of a qualitative epistemological approach (Creswell, 2007) (Denzin & Lincoln, 2011), several stakeholders from one University were interviewed, attempting to capture the several discourses on quality in HE and the embedded idea of quality eLearning . The results obtained were later conceptualized attempting to define quality as a complex object that requires mediation for the negotiation of the several perspectives.
This document provides information about the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) program. The program consists of a core module on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education as well as additional elective modules. The core module aims to help participants examine teaching practices, identify student learning needs, discuss the use of learning technologies, and critically evaluate theories of student learning and quality assurance in higher education. The document outlines the program structure, intended learning outcomes, online learning spaces, e-portfolios, and assessment criteria. It also provides an agenda for an induction event that will introduce participants to the program and core module.
2008 Was it worth it? Looking back at EdDSue Greener
Brief presentation - retrospective on doing a professional doctorate as a member of academic staff. Delivered to HR subject group at Brighton Business School 2008
The document summarizes the experiences of an EdD student through four perspectives - the practitioner, student, juggler, and researcher. It describes the practical questions that initially motivated the practitioner's research, the self-doubts of becoming a student again, the challenges of balancing personal and academic responsibilities as a juggler, and the outputs and future directions of the researcher following the EdD. Key stages and findings of the research projects are highlighted.
2009 What the HR literature tells us about reflective learningSue Greener
This document summarizes literature on using reflective learning to improve workplace performance. It finds that while human resources literature values reflection, few human resources journals discuss applying reflection in the workplace. Literature outside human resources discusses reflection more, focusing on topics like healthcare, project management, and small businesses. The document reviews different methodologies and aims in this literature, but finds few papers address the complexity and time pressures of the workplace. It concludes more research is needed on practical reflective thinking strategies that can genuinely improve workplace performance.
The document provides an overview of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) program at the University of Salford. The PGCAP is designed to help staff develop their skills and knowledge in learning and teaching in higher education. It consists of 4 core modules: Learning and Teaching in HE, Assessment and Feedback for Learning, Application of Learning Technologies, and Curriculum Design and Program Leadership. Participants will develop a social media-based portfolio to reflect on their learning and receive feedback from tutors and peers. The program aims to provide opportunities for open learning, experimentation, and conversations about improving teaching and learning at the University of Salford.
The document summarizes a workshop on quality dialogue held by Ingeborg Bø from Norway. It discusses models for quality assurance including certification programs like UNIQUE and the BILD Quality Mark. It also provides a case study on quality assurance from Norway including the Norwegian Association for Distance and Flexible Education (NADE) and its quality guidelines.
The document summarizes a presentation about quality assurance in e-learning. It discusses moving from inspection to inspiration by focusing on dialogue. It provides context of operations in Europe and models for quality assurance. It also discusses a case study from Norway and perspectives after 40 years in distance education with a focus on student needs, accessible technology, and a quality culture. Recommendations are made to use standard evaluation methods adapted for online learning and ensure learner support and best practices.
Even if the question of eLearning quality has been intensely discussed in the recent years, with several approaches and models arising, the implementation of concepts into practices remains contested (Elhers & Hilera, 2012 ) . Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are facing an important change:from the single institutional efforts to give answer to a very changing society and labour market to the transnational debates and pressure for HEI modernization, like the case of Bologna Process.In this context, eLearning is given different importance with regard to organizational innovation and the general HEI culture of quality (Ehlers & Schneckenberg, 2010). While it has been envisaged as the panacea to promote improvements in such different dimensions as cost-benefit ratio, access and inclusiveness, or the introduction of learner centered pedagogical approaches, very often the values and motivations entrenched in these dimensions clash and enter in more or less evident contradictions. As a result, the implementation of quality eLearning in HEI could be slowed down or blocked (Conole, Smith, & White, A critique of the impact of policy and funding, 2007).
In this article the authors introduce the results of an initial exploratory phase undertaken as part of a participatory action research funded by the Italian Ministry of Education PRIN (Research Project of National Interest, “Progetto di Ricerca d’Interesse Nazionale”) namely, “Evaluation for the improvement of educational contexts. A research involving University and local communities in the participatory development of innovative assessment models”.
On the basis of a qualitative epistemological approach (Creswell, 2007) (Denzin & Lincoln, 2011), several stakeholders from one University were interviewed, attempting to capture the several discourses on quality in HE and the embedded idea of quality eLearning . The results obtained were later conceptualized attempting to define quality as a complex object that requires mediation for the negotiation of the several perspectives.
This document provides information about the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) program. The program consists of a core module on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education as well as additional elective modules. The core module aims to help participants examine teaching practices, identify student learning needs, discuss the use of learning technologies, and critically evaluate theories of student learning and quality assurance in higher education. The document outlines the program structure, intended learning outcomes, online learning spaces, e-portfolios, and assessment criteria. It also provides an agenda for an induction event that will introduce participants to the program and core module.
2008 Was it worth it? Looking back at EdDSue Greener
Brief presentation - retrospective on doing a professional doctorate as a member of academic staff. Delivered to HR subject group at Brighton Business School 2008
The document summarizes the experiences of an EdD student through four perspectives - the practitioner, student, juggler, and researcher. It describes the practical questions that initially motivated the practitioner's research, the self-doubts of becoming a student again, the challenges of balancing personal and academic responsibilities as a juggler, and the outputs and future directions of the researcher following the EdD. Key stages and findings of the research projects are highlighted.
2009 What the HR literature tells us about reflective learningSue Greener
This document summarizes literature on using reflective learning to improve workplace performance. It finds that while human resources literature values reflection, few human resources journals discuss applying reflection in the workplace. Literature outside human resources discusses reflection more, focusing on topics like healthcare, project management, and small businesses. The document reviews different methodologies and aims in this literature, but finds few papers address the complexity and time pressures of the workplace. It concludes more research is needed on practical reflective thinking strategies that can genuinely improve workplace performance.
The document provides an overview of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) program at the University of Salford. The PGCAP is designed to help staff develop their skills and knowledge in learning and teaching in higher education. It consists of 4 core modules: Learning and Teaching in HE, Assessment and Feedback for Learning, Application of Learning Technologies, and Curriculum Design and Program Leadership. Participants will develop a social media-based portfolio to reflect on their learning and receive feedback from tutors and peers. The program aims to provide opportunities for open learning, experimentation, and conversations about improving teaching and learning at the University of Salford.
The document introduces the Office of Open Learning (OOL) at a university. It discusses the vision, mission, and strategic goals of promoting open and online learning. This includes developing systematic open learning, evaluating pedagogical models, and forming partnerships. The OOL will be governed by an advisory panel and committee. It then outlines workshops to discuss pedagogical models for open learning and adapting existing courses for open formats.
Professor Lourdes Guàrdia, How to evaluate generic Competences using Web 2.0:...mediazoo
One of the demands that today’s society is making of the European Space of
Higher Education (ESHE) is the establishment of a system that favors providing students with a comprehensive education that aims to achieve the optimum development of the skills needed in our current society. Another requirement concerns reforming the methodologies applied in classrooms, focusing the emphasis on learning and evaluation (personal, social and professional) based on competences and giving students a more prominent role in these processes. This social and academic framework is based on an organic model of information in which information is reused, reinterpreted and returned.
We are talking about promoting complex methodological changes which involve the redefinition of the whole concept of learning and evaluation which are key aspects of the education system. Faced with this outlook, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) has devised a new transverse evaluation instrument based on learning competences: the eTransfolio.
Work Ready Skills and Planning Your Career is a new subject taught online to 110 second year undergraduate students across four faculties and five campuses. The subject content was published in the LMS, with additional technologies being employed to further engage students, such as building a webfolio in PebblePad and the use of Blackboard Collaborate to hold fortnightly webinars. Students were encouraged to approach the subject as a self-paced one, with assessment tasks and webinars scheduled in such a way as to provide structure to enable completion of the learning activities on time. In this presentation, we will describe the design of the subject and reflect on the effectiveness of the teaching and learning activities and technologies used. We will also discuss the preliminary results of a pilot study measuring the Career Decision Self-Efficacy (CDSE) of students at the start and end of semester. Career Decision Self-Efficacy has been used in previous studies as a measure of the effectiveness of career development interventions.
Adrian Watson - An alternative approach to postgraduate sustainable pedagogyIES / IAQM
This document describes the alternative postgraduate program in sustainable pedagogy offered by the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). The program uses an immersive, blended learning model that combines residential fieldwork, lectures, and practical workshops to train students in sustainability topics in a living laboratory environment. Students gain real-world skills through hands-on projects and collaborative, multidisciplinary learning. Graduates of the program go on to work in education, sustainability consulting, renewable energy, and other fields promoting sustainable solutions. The CAT approach aims to develop adaptable, solutions-oriented graduates motivated to enable sustainable change.
Presentation to Faculty of Science at the University of Windsor with acknowledgement to Helen Beetham, Grainne Conole, Peter Goodyear, Robert Eliis - thank you
Blended collaborative constructive participation (bccp) a model for teaching...eLearning Papers
Authors: Maria Beatrice Ligorio, Stefania Cucchiara
The Blended Collaborative Constructive Participation (BCCP) model is a university teaching model built upon six years of experimentation.
This document discusses student-centered learning approaches at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). It notes that the economic and job markets are changing rapidly, requiring universities to shift from teacher-centered to student-centered models. UKM aims to implement outcome-based education (OBE) through constructive alignment of outcomes, teaching methods, and assessments. This includes project-based learning, research projects, case studies, and collaborations to develop skills like problem-solving, innovation, and ethics. UKM also seeks to create an immersive learning environment across campus through initiatives like living laboratories and entrepreneurship courses to better prepare students.
Distributive Leadership and Transformative Institutional Change – Blended and...Mike KEPPELL
The document discusses flexible learning and blended learning approaches at Charles Sturt University (CSU). It outlines the Teaching Fellowship Scheme which provides academics a 0.5 release from teaching duties over 12 months to redesign courses and subjects. The scheme aims to develop leadership, facilitate collaboration, and promote the use of CSU Interact (the university's learning management system). Four presenters at a seminar will discuss subject transformation, cross-subject redesign, and the enablers and constraints of flexible learning approaches.
This document describes a presentation about designing meaningful pedagogical practice in the virtual world Second Life. It discusses relevant learning theories and the presenter's PhD research studying how a community of practice responds to being remediated through Second Life. Key findings include that 3D remediation influences participants' sense of presence, identity, community, and practice. The design strategy must balance respectful and radical remediation to change people, places, and practices.
How do we know if an Education Reform is Successful?CITE
A Public Forum - How do we know if an Education Reform is Successful? Insights from European and Asian Education Innovations
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Date: 23 Jan 2013
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong
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0:00:48 - 0:05:57
Opening:
Prof. Steve Andrews, Dean of Education, The University of Hong Kong
0:06:04 - 0:09:35
Introduction:
Prof. Kai Ming Cheng, Chair Professor of Education, Co-Convenor of the Strategic Research Theme on Science of Learning, The University of Hong Kong
0:10:11 - 0:29:23
Learning Innovations in Europe:
Dr. Yves Punie, Senior Scientist, European Commission Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
0:31:23 - 0:40:41
Learning Innovations in Malaysia:
Dr. Seng Thah Soon, Deputy Director of the Educational Technology Division, Ministry of Education, Malaysia
0:40:58 - 0:47:02
Learning Innovations in Japan:
Mr. Yu Kameoka, Chief Supervisor for Social Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
0:47:17 - 0:56:23
Learning Innovations in Korea:
Prof. Dae Joon Hwang, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, Secretary General of Korean Council for University Education
0:56:40 - 1:01:24
Learning Innovations in China:
Prof. Ronghuai Huang, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education Beijing Normal University (BNU)
1:01:34 - 1:08:51
Learning Innovations in Singapore:
Dr. Horn Mun Cheah, Director for the Educational Technology Division, Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore
1:09:13 - 1:18:58
Initial Round-up:
Prof. Nancy Law, Director, Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE), Associate Dean, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
1:19:46 - 1:22:00
First question from the floor
1:22:25 - 1:23:28
Second question from the floor
1:24:11 - 1:27:16
Dr. Seng Thah Soon's response
1:27:20 - 1:29:25
Dr. Yves Punie's response
1:29:28 - 1:32:21
Dr. Horn Mun Cheah's response
1:32:30 - 1:35:26
Prof. Dae Joon Hwang's response
1:35:29 - 1:37:29
Prof. Nancy Law's response
1:37:49 - 1:43:28
Observations:
Dr. Catherine K K Chan, Deputy Secretary, Education Bureau, Hong Kong SAR
1:43:55 - 1:51:45
Observations:
Prof. Gwang-Jo Kim, Director, UNESCO Bangkok
1:51:49 - 1:54:44
Winding up:
Prof. Kai Ming Cheng
The document summarizes the MEd Information Technology program at Western Oregon State University. The program trains teachers to utilize technology through team-based professional learning communities to align curriculum with state standards. It focuses on providing educators with skills and tools to educate students in an age of high technology and communication. The goal is to empower teachers and build technically advanced learning communities.
This document provides an overview of new auditing and security features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, including discovery mailboxes, the Exchange Control Panel, multi-mailbox search, litigation hold, and administrator audit logging. It discusses how Exchange 2010 has improved tools for configuring and viewing audit logs of administrator activities and mailbox access. However, it notes that auditing all changes remains challenging without a dedicated auditing solution like Quest ChangeAuditor for Exchange.
This document discusses several issues regarding the future of tourism and hospitality education. It provides an assessment of the field's history, noting trends like increasing program proliferation, a focus on skills development, and industry influence over curricula. It also evaluates current performance in areas like skills transfer, innovation, and strategic leadership. Going forward, it argues tourism education needs world-class characteristics like talent concentration, resources, and governance. It outlines several organizations working to provide leadership, such as the Tourism Education Futures Initiative and the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. Overall, the document calls for renewed strategic vision and leadership to help tourism education reach excellence.
CrowdAhead is a proposed crowdfunding platform that will allow entrepreneurs to raise funds for their businesses from many individual investors online. The document discusses the benefits of crowdfunding for both fundraisers and investors, including lower costs, global reach, marketing, and risk diversification. It provides statistics on the rapid growth of the crowdfunding industry in recent years. CrowdAhead plans to focus initially on equity-based crowdfunding in the UK, with the goal of becoming self-sufficient by the end of 2013.
Enzymes catalyze reactions by stabilizing the transition state. The enzyme's active site provides a catalytic surface that lowers the energy needed for the reaction to proceed. Specific amino acids and cofactors in the deep buried active site pocket recognize and fit the transition state, shielding it from water and allowing reactive groups to form stable bonds to reduce the energy of activation.
This document discusses curriculum design from a university perspective. It addresses both external challenges such as increased competition and blurred boundaries between universities and vocational providers, as well as internal influences like improving efficiencies and tensions between industry-focused and broad societal goals for curriculum. The document presents models of different curriculum types and provides observations for curriculum design inputs, including clarity of purpose and values, leveraging unique academic assets, balancing standardization with creative teaching, and ensuring content covers areas like sustainability and cultural diversity. It emphasizes the intrinsic rewards of good curriculum design for both teachers and students.
The document introduces the Office of Open Learning (OOL) at a university. It discusses the vision, mission, and strategic goals of promoting open and online learning. This includes developing systematic open learning, evaluating pedagogical models, and forming partnerships. The OOL will be governed by an advisory panel and committee. It then outlines workshops to discuss pedagogical models for open learning and adapting existing courses for open formats.
Professor Lourdes Guàrdia, How to evaluate generic Competences using Web 2.0:...mediazoo
One of the demands that today’s society is making of the European Space of
Higher Education (ESHE) is the establishment of a system that favors providing students with a comprehensive education that aims to achieve the optimum development of the skills needed in our current society. Another requirement concerns reforming the methodologies applied in classrooms, focusing the emphasis on learning and evaluation (personal, social and professional) based on competences and giving students a more prominent role in these processes. This social and academic framework is based on an organic model of information in which information is reused, reinterpreted and returned.
We are talking about promoting complex methodological changes which involve the redefinition of the whole concept of learning and evaluation which are key aspects of the education system. Faced with this outlook, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) has devised a new transverse evaluation instrument based on learning competences: the eTransfolio.
Work Ready Skills and Planning Your Career is a new subject taught online to 110 second year undergraduate students across four faculties and five campuses. The subject content was published in the LMS, with additional technologies being employed to further engage students, such as building a webfolio in PebblePad and the use of Blackboard Collaborate to hold fortnightly webinars. Students were encouraged to approach the subject as a self-paced one, with assessment tasks and webinars scheduled in such a way as to provide structure to enable completion of the learning activities on time. In this presentation, we will describe the design of the subject and reflect on the effectiveness of the teaching and learning activities and technologies used. We will also discuss the preliminary results of a pilot study measuring the Career Decision Self-Efficacy (CDSE) of students at the start and end of semester. Career Decision Self-Efficacy has been used in previous studies as a measure of the effectiveness of career development interventions.
Adrian Watson - An alternative approach to postgraduate sustainable pedagogyIES / IAQM
This document describes the alternative postgraduate program in sustainable pedagogy offered by the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). The program uses an immersive, blended learning model that combines residential fieldwork, lectures, and practical workshops to train students in sustainability topics in a living laboratory environment. Students gain real-world skills through hands-on projects and collaborative, multidisciplinary learning. Graduates of the program go on to work in education, sustainability consulting, renewable energy, and other fields promoting sustainable solutions. The CAT approach aims to develop adaptable, solutions-oriented graduates motivated to enable sustainable change.
Presentation to Faculty of Science at the University of Windsor with acknowledgement to Helen Beetham, Grainne Conole, Peter Goodyear, Robert Eliis - thank you
Blended collaborative constructive participation (bccp) a model for teaching...eLearning Papers
Authors: Maria Beatrice Ligorio, Stefania Cucchiara
The Blended Collaborative Constructive Participation (BCCP) model is a university teaching model built upon six years of experimentation.
This document discusses student-centered learning approaches at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). It notes that the economic and job markets are changing rapidly, requiring universities to shift from teacher-centered to student-centered models. UKM aims to implement outcome-based education (OBE) through constructive alignment of outcomes, teaching methods, and assessments. This includes project-based learning, research projects, case studies, and collaborations to develop skills like problem-solving, innovation, and ethics. UKM also seeks to create an immersive learning environment across campus through initiatives like living laboratories and entrepreneurship courses to better prepare students.
Distributive Leadership and Transformative Institutional Change – Blended and...Mike KEPPELL
The document discusses flexible learning and blended learning approaches at Charles Sturt University (CSU). It outlines the Teaching Fellowship Scheme which provides academics a 0.5 release from teaching duties over 12 months to redesign courses and subjects. The scheme aims to develop leadership, facilitate collaboration, and promote the use of CSU Interact (the university's learning management system). Four presenters at a seminar will discuss subject transformation, cross-subject redesign, and the enablers and constraints of flexible learning approaches.
This document describes a presentation about designing meaningful pedagogical practice in the virtual world Second Life. It discusses relevant learning theories and the presenter's PhD research studying how a community of practice responds to being remediated through Second Life. Key findings include that 3D remediation influences participants' sense of presence, identity, community, and practice. The design strategy must balance respectful and radical remediation to change people, places, and practices.
How do we know if an Education Reform is Successful?CITE
A Public Forum - How do we know if an Education Reform is Successful? Insights from European and Asian Education Innovations
----------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 23 Jan 2013
Time: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong
----------------------------------------------------------------
0:00:48 - 0:05:57
Opening:
Prof. Steve Andrews, Dean of Education, The University of Hong Kong
0:06:04 - 0:09:35
Introduction:
Prof. Kai Ming Cheng, Chair Professor of Education, Co-Convenor of the Strategic Research Theme on Science of Learning, The University of Hong Kong
0:10:11 - 0:29:23
Learning Innovations in Europe:
Dr. Yves Punie, Senior Scientist, European Commission Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
0:31:23 - 0:40:41
Learning Innovations in Malaysia:
Dr. Seng Thah Soon, Deputy Director of the Educational Technology Division, Ministry of Education, Malaysia
0:40:58 - 0:47:02
Learning Innovations in Japan:
Mr. Yu Kameoka, Chief Supervisor for Social Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
0:47:17 - 0:56:23
Learning Innovations in Korea:
Prof. Dae Joon Hwang, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, Secretary General of Korean Council for University Education
0:56:40 - 1:01:24
Learning Innovations in China:
Prof. Ronghuai Huang, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education Beijing Normal University (BNU)
1:01:34 - 1:08:51
Learning Innovations in Singapore:
Dr. Horn Mun Cheah, Director for the Educational Technology Division, Ministry of Education (MOE), Singapore
1:09:13 - 1:18:58
Initial Round-up:
Prof. Nancy Law, Director, Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE), Associate Dean, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
1:19:46 - 1:22:00
First question from the floor
1:22:25 - 1:23:28
Second question from the floor
1:24:11 - 1:27:16
Dr. Seng Thah Soon's response
1:27:20 - 1:29:25
Dr. Yves Punie's response
1:29:28 - 1:32:21
Dr. Horn Mun Cheah's response
1:32:30 - 1:35:26
Prof. Dae Joon Hwang's response
1:35:29 - 1:37:29
Prof. Nancy Law's response
1:37:49 - 1:43:28
Observations:
Dr. Catherine K K Chan, Deputy Secretary, Education Bureau, Hong Kong SAR
1:43:55 - 1:51:45
Observations:
Prof. Gwang-Jo Kim, Director, UNESCO Bangkok
1:51:49 - 1:54:44
Winding up:
Prof. Kai Ming Cheng
The document summarizes the MEd Information Technology program at Western Oregon State University. The program trains teachers to utilize technology through team-based professional learning communities to align curriculum with state standards. It focuses on providing educators with skills and tools to educate students in an age of high technology and communication. The goal is to empower teachers and build technically advanced learning communities.
This document provides an overview of new auditing and security features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, including discovery mailboxes, the Exchange Control Panel, multi-mailbox search, litigation hold, and administrator audit logging. It discusses how Exchange 2010 has improved tools for configuring and viewing audit logs of administrator activities and mailbox access. However, it notes that auditing all changes remains challenging without a dedicated auditing solution like Quest ChangeAuditor for Exchange.
This document discusses several issues regarding the future of tourism and hospitality education. It provides an assessment of the field's history, noting trends like increasing program proliferation, a focus on skills development, and industry influence over curricula. It also evaluates current performance in areas like skills transfer, innovation, and strategic leadership. Going forward, it argues tourism education needs world-class characteristics like talent concentration, resources, and governance. It outlines several organizations working to provide leadership, such as the Tourism Education Futures Initiative and the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. Overall, the document calls for renewed strategic vision and leadership to help tourism education reach excellence.
CrowdAhead is a proposed crowdfunding platform that will allow entrepreneurs to raise funds for their businesses from many individual investors online. The document discusses the benefits of crowdfunding for both fundraisers and investors, including lower costs, global reach, marketing, and risk diversification. It provides statistics on the rapid growth of the crowdfunding industry in recent years. CrowdAhead plans to focus initially on equity-based crowdfunding in the UK, with the goal of becoming self-sufficient by the end of 2013.
Enzymes catalyze reactions by stabilizing the transition state. The enzyme's active site provides a catalytic surface that lowers the energy needed for the reaction to proceed. Specific amino acids and cofactors in the deep buried active site pocket recognize and fit the transition state, shielding it from water and allowing reactive groups to form stable bonds to reduce the energy of activation.
This document discusses curriculum design from a university perspective. It addresses both external challenges such as increased competition and blurred boundaries between universities and vocational providers, as well as internal influences like improving efficiencies and tensions between industry-focused and broad societal goals for curriculum. The document presents models of different curriculum types and provides observations for curriculum design inputs, including clarity of purpose and values, leveraging unique academic assets, balancing standardization with creative teaching, and ensuring content covers areas like sustainability and cultural diversity. It emphasizes the intrinsic rewards of good curriculum design for both teachers and students.
Translating Learning Research into the Design of Innovative Learning Environm...EduSkills OECD
The CERI OECD/National Science Foundation International Conference took place in Paris, at the OECD Headquarters on 23-24 January 2012. Here the presentation of Session 4, Brokering Reasearch Findings to Benefit Innovation in Education, Item 1.
This document provides information about the KeyCoNet partners network. It lists partners from various European countries that represent the areas of policy, research, and practice. It then provides the operational definition of key competences that are the focus of the network's activities. Finally, it outlines the network's methodology, which involves identifying and analyzing strategies for implementing key competences in education reforms through case notes, case studies, peer visits, and disseminating the findings.
My Golden Learning Perspectives, IFWE, USDLAIngeborg Bø
Ingeborg Bø presented at the IFWE conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In her presentation, she discussed quality assurance in distance education drawing from her 40 years of experience. She emphasized keeping students' needs in mind, using technology to benefit learning, and ensuring high quality through a quality culture. Bø also reviewed different models for quality assurance like the UNIQUE methodology and NADE's quality guidelines from Norway. She concluded by encouraging a dialogue between accreditation bodies and practitioners to move from inspection to inspiration in quality assurance.
This powerpoint provides a background to TEFI, its values and a short history. It was presented by Pauline Sheldon at the TEFI Conference in Milan, 2013.
The document outlines Lucy Renton's role as Faculty Blended Learning Co-ordinator and discusses strategies for enhancing the student learning experience through educational technologies and blended learning approaches. It also addresses challenges and opportunities in developing innovative teaching methods that engage students and develop key skills for a changing media landscape.
The Practical Case for Quality: The Teacher and Student Perspective Brandon Muramatsu
Philip Bell leads a panel discussion at the Conversations on Quality: A Symposium on K-12 Online Learning hosted by MIT and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, January 24-25, 2012, Cambridge, MA.
Helen Chen: Electronic Portfolios and Student Success: A Framework for Effec...WASC Senior
This document discusses electronic portfolios and their effective implementation to promote student success. It provides an overview of assessment methods that can be used with eportfolios, including performances, common assignments, and classroom assessment techniques. The document outlines an eportfolio implementation framework that involves defining learning outcomes, understanding learners, designing learning activities, assessing student learning, using eportfolio tools, and evaluating the impact. It also discusses identifying stakeholders and mapping learning objectives across different levels. The document promotes using eportfolios to help students integrate and synthesize their learning.
This document summarizes a European policy network called KeyCoNet that is focused on identifying and analyzing strategies for implementing key competences in education reforms. It lists the partner organizations involved in KeyCoNet which represent policy, research, and practice in several European countries. The network's goals are to increase its influence on education policies through disseminating its studies, videos, and newsletters. It will identify and analyze emerging strategies for teaching key competences, which are interdependent skills like critical thinking, initiative, problem solving, and cultural awareness. KeyCoNet will engage in literature reviews, case studies, and peer visits to schools to understand how key competences can be effectively implemented and will produce recommendations to share its findings.
This document summarizes a presentation on professional learning and leadership in literacy instruction. The presentation aims to immerse educators in research resources and best practices through online materials and discussions between university researchers and K-12 teachers. It provides an overview of the theoretical foundations of literacy learning and discusses the creation of an international reading center to collect and disseminate educational information and provide professional learning opportunities globally.
A New Curriculum for Information Literacy: JISC-RSC, York, Oct 2011 Emma Coonan
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1. TEFI7 Tourism Education Futures Initiative
Tourism Education for Global Citizenship:
Educating for Lives of Consequence
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
13-16 April 2013
2. Welcome
Professor Pauline J. Sheldon, University of Hawaii, USA
Professor Daniel Fesenmaier, Temple University, USA
TEFI Co-Founders
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3. Welcome
Dr. Chris Cooper
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean, Business School, Oxford Brookes
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4. Welcome
Mr. Donald Sloan
Head, Oxford School of Hospitality Management, Oxford Brookes University
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5. Welcome
Mr. Roberto Daniele
Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University and Local Program Chair
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6. Dr Dianne Dredge
Southern Cross University, AUS
Dr Christian Schott
Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Opening Session
TEFI7
Tourism Education Futures Initiative
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7. Opening Session
Introduction to the TEFI
History, mission, goals
Overview of developments and activities
Conference goals, focus and the future
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8. History, Mission & Goals
2006 TEFI is born
Annual conferences
2007 Modul University, Vienna, Austria
2008 University of Hawaii, USA
2009 University of Lugano, Switzerland
Hawaii
2010 University of Deusto, San Sebastian, Spain
2011 Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
2012 Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
2013 Oxford Brookes University, UK
Lugano
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9. TEFI Values
Stewardship
sustainability, responsibility,
• service to the community
Knowledge
Mutuality critical thinking, innovation,
diversity, inclusion, creativity, networking
equity, humility, collaboration
Professionalism
Ethics leadership, practicality,
honesty, transparency, services, relevance, timeliness,
authenticity reflexivity, teamwork,
pro-activity
11. TEFI Vision
…leading, forward-thinking network that inspires,
informs and supports tourism educators and
students to passionately and courageously
transform the world for the better…
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13. TEFI is much more……
Reform is the norm in higher ed
Industrialisation of higher ed
Our connection with work
Mobilities
TEFI focuses on what is important
Global citizenship
Values
Education Futures
Lives of consequence
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14. The Future of Higher Education
Disruptive forces
Traditional university under threat
Digital natives redefining modes of delivery & learning
communities
Symbols of achievement vs accomplishment-based education
Future developments could include:
De-understanding/unlearning
Academic work
Place, community and the student experience in a mobile world
Jobs of the future, e.g. Master of Ethical Development; Master of
Free Agency, etc
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15. TEFI Developments & Activities
TEFI seeks to be the leading, forward-looking network that inspires, informs and
supports tourism educators and students to passionately and courageously transform
the world for the better.
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16. 1. Learning Experiences
TEFI Values – Temple University, Modul University
Global online tourism course – Dr Janne Liburd &
colleagues
Australian Tourism, Hospitality & Events Curriculum Project
– Dr Dianne Dredge & colleagues
Scholarly collaborations with other organisations
Current activities
Values inventory – Prof Gianna Moscardo
Best practices in teaching – Prof Betsy Barber
TEFFI change conferences – Mr Roberto Daniele
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17. Learning experiences – Values Inventory
Professor Gianna Moscado, James Cook
University Australia
TEFI Values Inventory Update
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18. TEFI Values Inventory What & Why
What & Why How
• Structured scale to Literature
review
assess support for the
Student
TEFI value domains groups
unstructured
• Formative evaluation
– Where are students now?
Students
structured
• Summative Evaluation
TEFI 2012
– Have activities, classes, participants
programs made a
difference? Item pool for
testing
• Research more widely
Final Version
for Use
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19. TEFI Values Inventory Process
Full Item
Pool
Match to Schwartz
Reduce with testing Values
CSR Professionalism Need for Authenticity
Environmental Ethics cognition of Self Diversity-
attitudes Inclusiveness
Ways to get involved:-
1. Send the link out to your students
2. Organise a specific version online for your students
3. Organise a hard copy version to distribution to your students
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20. Learning Experiences – Implementing Values
Professor Betsy Barber, Temple University
Update - Implementation of TEFI Core Values in
Undergraduate Curriculum
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21. TIMELINE
Fall 2009 - Case Study Commences
Reviewed all THM courses and decided which Core Value
should be embedded into each course.
Wrote series of learning objectives for the 5 TEFI Core
Values.
Learning objectives were written in progressive level of
application and suggested assessment using Bloom’s
Taxonomy (1956, 2007).
Core Values were integrated throughout all major and
elective course, as well as from freshman through senior
level.
24. FALL 2009 – FALL 2012
Each Semester
Data has been collected on individual course assessment
through Student Feedback Forms – student perceptions,
attitudes and opinions of Core Values.
Data has been collected from external stakeholders –
senior internship site supervisors – Industry opinions on
students’ performance.
Comparisons are made to assess changes.
25. SPRING 2013
Paper accepted for presentation Apac – CHRIE, May 21-24,
2013 Macau
Values Based Education in Tourism and Hospitality Curriculum:
Is it Necessary to Develop Holistic Citizenship Education?
Major Focus –
Description of learning experiences in the 5 TEFI core values.
Suggested assignments are explained.
Rubrics have been created for assessment of student
performance, showing how to benchmark student initial
reaction – through capstone (in-depth understanding and
behavior modification)
26. Learning Experiences –
TEFI Change Conferences
Roberto Daniele, Oxford Brookes University
“The desk is a dangerous place from which to view the
world” John le Carré
Inspirational gatherings for existing or aspiring change-
makers;
Designed to take participants outside their day to day
environment;
Meaningful time & space to exchange experiences and
reflect;
From “working papers” to “walking papers”
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27. TEFI Change Conferences
First TEFI Change Conference proposed for May 2014
Destination: Nepal
Duration: 9-10 days
Developed in partnership with tour operator Adventure
Alternative and Moving Mountains Trust
We need your input!
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32. 2. Scholarship
Three sets of TEFI conference proceedings (starting Philadelphia)
Three special issues of JTTT
Routledge Book “The Tourism Education Futures Initiative” Eds.
Darko Prebezac, Christian Schott, Pauline Sheldon
“Routledge Handbook of Tourism & Hospitality Education” Eds.
David Airey, Dianne Dredge & Mike Gross
Online tourism journal (open source)
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33. Open Source Journal Prof Dan Fesenmaier
Prof Karl Wöeber
Growth in journals unprecedented
Questions of process, quality
control, timeliness, focus
Impact of tourism research is
minimal
Internet is changing the way we
consume knowledge
Proposal for a “liquid journal” in
tourism
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34. 3. Advocacy
New Provisional TEFI chapter in India
Symposium in Brazil
This is Tourism - Dr Ana María Munar
Why Tourism? - Dr Ulli Gretzel
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35. This is Tourism
Ana María Munar
Copenhagen Business School
TOURISM EDUCATION FUTURES INSTITUTE
Tourism Education for Global Citizenship:
Educating for Lives of Consequence
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England
April 13-16, 2013
39. 4. Tourism Education Futures
This conference is the start of the future!
Engage intellectually and pragmatically
Ask yourself “What can I do?”
Talk to others
Day 3
Reflections, consolidation & actions
Wrap up & way forward sessions
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40. Call to Action…
Capture those inspiring thoughts & ideas for
final day discussions
Four areas of focus
• Learning experiences
• Scholarship
• Advocacy for tourism education
• Tourism futures
A challenge to everyone…
As a network of like-minded educators, scholars and industry representatives, TEFI supports, profiles and gives voice to a range of activities and initiatives that seek to strengthen tourism education in the future.