Research Articles (Scholarship of Teaching & Learning): Recent submissions
Now showing items 101-120 of 234
-
Converging institutional expertise to model teaching and learning with emerging technologies
(UNISA Press, 2013)There is an increasing disjuncture between the use of technologies and the impact that this has on teaching and learning practice. This challenge is compounded by the lack of institutional preparedness to support emerging ... -
Scholarship of teaching and learning publications by UWC Authors, 2010-2019
(Unpublished, 2020)The file presents results of an exercise to track UWC SoTL publications between 2010 and 2019. The document lists these in order of faculty and professional unit. -
Exploring pedagogical possibilities for transformative approaches to academic literacies in undergraduate Physics
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)How can research on academic literacies throw light on the challenge to widen access to undergraduate science studies? This article explores what an academic literacies approach might mean in the context of undergraduate ... -
Mind the gap: Science and engineering education at the secondary–tertiary interface
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2013)In the South African higher education sector, there is increasing concern about the poor retention and throughput rates of undergraduate students. There is also concern that the participation rates in higher education, ... -
Using a disciplinary discourse lens to explore how representations afford meaning making in a typical wave physics course
(Springer Verlag, 2013)We carried out a case study in a wave physics course at a Swedish university in order to investigate the relations between the representations used in the lessons and the experience of meaning making in interview–discussions. ... -
Students' ontological security and agency in science education - an example from reasoning about the use of gene technology
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)This paper reports on a study of how students' reasoning about socioscientific issues is framed by three dynamics: societal structures, agency and how trust and security issues are handled. Examples from gene technology ... -
Epistemological access through lecture materials in multiple modes and language varieties: the role of ideologies and multilingual literacy practices in student evaluations of such materials at a South African University
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)This paper seeks to address the ways in which ideology and literacy practices shape the responses of students to an ongoing initiative at the University of the Western Cape aimed at diversifying options for epistemological ... -
Leveraging informal leadership in higher education institutions: A case of diffusion of emerging technologies in a southern context
(British Educational Research Association, 2013)In the last decade, emerging technologies and transformative practices have diffused into higher education social systems in ways that formal leadership styles are increasingly stretched to both keep abreast of and to ... -
Collaborative research in contexts of inequality: the role of social reflexivity
(Springer Verlag, 2017)This article reports on the role and value of social reflexivity in collaborative research in contexts of extreme inequality. Social reflexivity mediates the enablements and constraints generated by the internal and external ... -
Structured feedback on students’ concept maps: the proverbial path to learning?
(BMC, 2017)Good conceptual knowledge is an essential requirement for health professions students, in that they are required to apply concepts learned in the classroom to a variety of different contexts. However, the use of traditional ... -
Transforming teaching with emerging technologies: Implications for higher education institutions
(SUN, 2013)A gulf is widening between the technologies used by students, those used by educators and those provided by institutions. However, knowledge about the impact of so-called emerging technologies on learning or the readiness ... -
Towards a shared understanding of emerging technologies: Experiences in a collaborative research project in South Africa
(The African Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), 2013)While the practice of using educational technologies in Higher Education is increasingly common among educators, there is a paucity of research on innovative uses of emerging technologies to transform teaching and learning. ... -
Enhancing an international perspective in public health teaching through formalized university partnerships
(Frontiers Media, 2017)Teaching in the field of public health needs to employ a global perspective to account for the fact that public health problems and solutions have global determinants and implications as well. International university ... -
Facilitating community-based interprofessional education and collaborative practice in a health sciences faculty: student perceptions and experiences
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016)BACKGROUND: Interprofessional education (IPE) aims at facilitating the collaborative practice of healthcare professionals. However, students have varied experiences with IPE and the collaborative practice initiatives ... -
Ethical considerations in using student data in an era of ‘big data’
(2015)Learning with technology enables the collection of data on students at a level unprecedented in face-to-face tuition and paper-based academic administration. Universities see the advantage in tracking students’ engagement ... -
The development of an implementation framework for service learning during the undergraduate nursing programme in the Western Cape Province
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)BACKGROUND: Service-learning (SL) is a contested field of knowledge and issues of sustainability and scholarship have been raised about it. The South African Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) has provided policy ... -
Undergraduate nurses reflections on Whatsapp use in improving primary health care education
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)BACKGROUND: The global use of mobile devices with their connectivity capacity, and integrated with the affordances of social media networks, provides a resource-rich platform for innovative student-directed learning ... -
Cracking the nut of service learning in nursing at a Higher Education Institution
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)BACKGROUND: The readiness of academics to engage in the service-learning (SL) institutionalisation process is not accentuated in research on SL institutionalisation in South Africa. The argument has been advanced that ... -
The practical in theory and the theoretical in practice: Facilitating integration in teaching and learning
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)INTRODUCTION: The integration of theory and practice in student learning is a challenge faced by teachers in health science education, where the curriculum contains large sections of learning in clinical or fieldwork settings. ... -
Teaching ethical issues in health care: Incorporating a philosophy of care into undergraduate health programs at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)CONTEXT: There is a growing emphasis on ethics education in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula of the health professions. Approximately five hundred and eighty two health science students participate annually on ...