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The Combined Effect of Learning Space and Faculty Self-Efficacy to use Student-Centered Practices on Teaching Experiences and Student Engagement
Get PDFResearch on pedagogy and learning spaces often assumes that active learning spaces enhance faculty’s ability to implement student-centered practices and relies on student perspectives. Faculty completed surveys that assessed their self-efficacy for student-centered pedagogy, teaching experiences, and student engagement when teaching in active and traditional learning spaces. Self-efficacy positively predicted teaching experiences and student engagement within the same space, but negatively across spaces. Only self-efficacy in active learning spaces positively predicted student-centered strategy use. Findings challenge the assumption that skilled faculty will feel successful in any space, and necessitate the development of policies and trainings that consider pedagogy and space
Book Review: Tutoring Matters
No full textThis short essay reviews, Tutoring Matters, by Chin, Rabow, and Estrada (2011)
Book Review: The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication by Alberto Cairo
No full textAlberto Cairo's The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (2016), is an aesthetically-pleasing and timely work aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness of visualizations within the framework of truthfulness and design. Cairo, a journalist, faculty member, and director of the University of Miami’s Visualization Program in their Center for Computational Science, frames his examples within journalism and marketing. The book provides examples that Communication Center staff can use to demonstrate to students how visuals might be made more appealing, more effective and/or more accurate. Also useful are Cairo’s illustrations of the ways in which an omission in a graphic can lead to skewed results
Innovating Lecturing: Spatial Change and Staff-Student Pedagogic Relationships for Learning
Get PDFLecture halls, an enduring feature of higher education landscapes, are undergoing a spatial revolution. These materialize a pedagogic imaginary of technology-enhanced, student-centered learning. This article investigates the pedagogic performance of a contemporary lecture theater in regional Australia, presenting mixed-method data from a broader case study. Four design principles – learner-centricity, connectivity, flexibility, and affordances – organize the analysis, finding that spaces, technologies, staff, and students work in conjunction to perform a spectrum of teaching modes. In practice, staff pedagogic repertoires, spatial literacies, and teaching philosophies entangle in socio-spatial pedagogic relationships that facilitate, rather than dictate, student learning in lecturing spaces
The Community Engagement Professional in Higher Education: A Competency Model for an Emerging Field
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Alumni Insights from the Communication Classroom
Get PDFThis research was based on observations of UNC Greensboro speaking center alumni who became teachers upon graduating. The article focused on techniques these alumni used that differ from the traditional heirarchal teaching pedagogy. The research elludes to the unique factors that set speaking center alumni apart from other teachers who lack experience in a communication center
Using LibGuides to Deliver Communication-based Resources: A Behind the Scenes Partnership between a Writing and Communication Center and a University Library
Get PDFIn January 2018, Nova Southeastern University opened the NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC), an innovative academic work environment that offers writing and communication assistance to all 20,000-plus NSU students. A key component of the WCC is its online writing and communication resources. These resources are made available to all NSU students and faculty through a collaboration between the WCC and the university’s main library, the Alvin Sherman Library. While the WCC is ultimately responsible for developing and publishing its own web content, the library provides its LibGuides platform as a host for the WCC’s resources—and NSU librarians help maintain, assess, and contribute to these resources. This article examines the LibGuide-based collaborative relationship between the center and the library, discussing how and why it formed, how it operates, and how it conducts assessment