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Enhancing teaching and learning in higher education in the United Arab Emirates [electronic book] : reflections from the classroom / edited by Cindy L. Gunn

Contributor(s): Gunn, Cindy L [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: online resource (xxvii, 264 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781443841672 (hardback); 9781443845434 (e-book); 1443845434 (e-book); 1443841676 (hardback).Subject(s): Education, Higher -- United Arab EmiratesDDC classification: 378.5357 Online resources: E-book
Contents:
Introduction the power of innovative reflective practice -- Designing stories of our lives: an exploration of interdisciplinary teaching -- Making connections, marking differences, filling voids and minding gaps: teaching art history in the UAE -- From passive to collaborative involvement in the classroom: reconsidering the notion of a museum studies course in the UAE -- Investigating techniques to enhance learner autonomy in biology classes -- Engineering students’ reflections on the relevance of an ESP course: delayed understanding -- Formative assessment: uncovering writing excellence one student at a time -- Examining the impact of private tutoring in business mathematics classes -- Do personal response systems enhance learning? a case study in a junior-level civil engineering course -- Reflecting on students’ attitudes and performance in homework -- Evaluating the effect of video lectures on student learning -- Interactive games in mechanics education -- Enhancing undergraduate finance students’ experience through active learning -- A learning management system’s discussion board or Facebook groups: aclassroom Implementation study -- Introduction of learning technology in the management curriculum: progress toward group-work -- Information literacy outcomes assessment using rubrics: an AUS Library pilot.
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Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates: Reflections from the Classroom captures the endeavours that professors from different disciplines at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) have undergone to enhance the learning opportunities for their students. All the authors have deliberately chosen to approach teaching with inquiry and enthusiasm to do this. In every chapter, the authors take a scholarly, reflective approach to explain and examine the innovative techniques and methods which they have employed to identify the needs of the students in order to offer opportunities for them to better understand the subject material. Through topics ranging from introducing active learning techniques to examining the effect of technology on the learning process, the authors describe, evaluate and reflect upon their teaching practice. The fifteen chapters provide inspiration for teaching excellence by combining insight and experience to invoke enthusiasm for and dedication to outstanding teaching, and a commitment to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in institutions of Higher Education world-wide.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction the power of innovative reflective practice -- Designing stories of our lives: an exploration of interdisciplinary teaching -- Making connections, marking differences, filling voids and minding gaps: teaching art history in the UAE -- From passive to collaborative involvement in the classroom: reconsidering the notion of a museum studies course in the UAE -- Investigating techniques to enhance learner autonomy in biology classes -- Engineering students’ reflections on the relevance of an ESP course: delayed understanding -- Formative assessment: uncovering writing excellence one student at a time -- Examining the impact of private tutoring in business mathematics classes -- Do personal response systems enhance learning? a case study in a junior-level civil engineering course -- Reflecting on students’ attitudes and performance in homework -- Evaluating the effect of video lectures on student learning -- Interactive games in mechanics education -- Enhancing undergraduate finance students’ experience through active learning -- A learning management system’s discussion board or Facebook groups: aclassroom Implementation study -- Introduction of learning technology in the management curriculum: progress toward group-work -- Information literacy outcomes assessment using rubrics: an AUS Library pilot.

Electronic reproduction.: Dawson Books. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Electronic reproduction.: ProQuest LibCentral. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Cindy L. Gunn is the Director of the Faculty Development Center and an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). She holds a PhD from the University of Bath, UK. Before joining AUS in 2001, she lived and taught in Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Thailand, Turkey and the United States. Her main research paradigm is Exploratory Practice with an emphasis on how the teaching and learning process can be improved for both the teacher and the students through reflective practice. She has presented her research at international and local conferences focusing on educational leadership, educational technology, SoTL and TESOL in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America.

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