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The use of electronic voting systems in lectures within business and marketing: a case study of their impact on student learning
This article presents a case study of the impact on student learning of introducing an electronic voting system (EVS) into largeâgroup lectures for firstâyear undergraduate students undertaking degrees in marketing and business systems. We discuss the potential for using EVSâstyle interactive lectures in marketing and business programmes. We then describe how we planned the session and selected and implemented the EVS system. We go on to present an evaluative research project, which was undertaken on the innovation using caseâstudy methodology, and assess its impact on student learning. Data for the evaluation were collected through questionnaire and focus groups with a sample of students. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. The findings show how students perceived the use of EVS in large lectures and how their learning was affected. A âthreeâfold typologyâ emerged that explains how students related to the EVS and how their perceptions of EVS changed over time. The discussion links these findings to the literature on different paradigms of learning and teaching, using Renshawâs framework, and examines how the EVSâstyle lectures promote deep and active learning within the constructivist, social constructivist and metacognitive learning paradigms identified in Renshawâs model. The conclusions show how the use of a userâfriendly EVS in large lectures motivates students, develops studentsâ cognitive and social learning skills, and improves learning effectiveness
Social, citizenship, social policy and refugee integration: a case of policy divergence in Scotland
The relationship between Holyrood and Westminster is an evolving one where there is some evidence of policy divergence. Underpinning policy approaches are different views of social citizenship, with the Holyrood approach maintaining elements of the post-1945 welfare settlement. The place of refugees and asylum seekers within these differing approaches is currently underexplored. This article looks at the Scottish and UK Governmentsâ views of social rights and how they apply to asylum seekers and refugees. It suggests that despite refugee âpolicyâ being at least partly reserved, the Scottish Government has been able to take a different approach from that of Westminster, an approach underpinned by these differing welfare outlooks
Education as Re-Embedding: Stroud Communiversity, Walking the Land and the Enduring Spell of the Sensuous
How we know, is at least as important as what we know: Before educationalists can begin to teach sustainability, we need to explore our own views of the world and how these are formed. The paper explores the ontological assumptions that underpin, usually implicitly, the pedagogical relationship and opens up the question of how people know each other and the world they share. Using understandings based in a phenomenological approach and guided by social constructionism, it suggests that the most appropriate pedagogical method for teaching sustainability is one based on situated learning and reflexive practice. To support its ontological questioning, the paper highlights two alternative cultureâs ways of understanding and recording the world: Those of the Inca who inhabited pre-Columbian Peru, which was based on the quipu system of knotted strings, and the complex social and religious system of the songlines of the original people of Australia. As an indication of the sorts of teaching experiences that an emancipatory and relational pedagogy might give rise to, the paper offers examples of two community learning experiences in the exemplar sustainable community of Stroud, Gloucestershire in the United Kingdom where the authors live
Methodological challenges for collaborative learning research
Research on collaborative learning, both face-to-face and computer-supported, has thrived in the past 10 years. The studies range from outcome-oriented (individual and group learning) to process-oriented (impact of interaction on learning processes, motivation and organisation of collaboration) to mixed studies. Collaborative learning research is multi-disciplinary. This introduces a multitude of theoretical accounts for collaborative learning, accompanied by a broad spectrum of methods to study processes and outcomes of collaboration. This special issue will provide an overview of methods that are at the core of current research effort, but also identifies opportunities and problems to sensibly combine methods into mixed method approaches
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'A Deep Trade Agenda': The convergence of trade and Fundamental Rights
A key feature of the latest EU trade negotiations was the pursuance of a âdeep trade agendaâ for âdeep integrationâ with the trade partners. The concept of âdeepâ has yet remained unexplored from a fundamental rights perspective. The central question of this chapter asks how a methodological framework of âconvergenceâ can help the exploration and understanding of âdeepness of fundamental rightsâ in the new generation of EU trade agreements. Using the Civil Society Forum under CETA as a case-study, the chapter argues that while convergence can justify the targeting of certain analytical elements as opposed to others, its usefulness remains limited for more normative explorations
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