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What Is the Aim of Discussion? A Provisional Answer with the Help of Habermas and Arendt
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Vasterling, Veronica – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2019
Habermas and Arendt defend two contrasting accounts of discussion. While both accounts acknowledge the importance of knowledge as basis of discussion, Habermas emphasizes the aim of reasoned agreement and Arendt focuses on plural interpretative perspectives. I will explore the tension between the two accounts in order to clarify the phenomenon of…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Persuasive Discourse, Attitudes, Logical Thinking
The Engagement Agenda, Multimedia Learning and the Use of Images in Higher Education Lecturing: Or, How to End Death by PowerPoint
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Roberts, David – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
This article is concerned with student engagement and understanding in large group teaching in Higher Education (HE). Specifically, it is concerned with the application of Multimedia Learning (MML) methods in Politics, History, International Relations, Sociology, Social Work, and Business and Economics teaching that privilege the use of images to…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Learner Engagement, Large Group Instruction, Multimedia Instruction
Student Responses to a Hands-On Kinesthetic Lecture Activity for Learning about the Oxygen Carrying Capacity of Blood
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Breckler, Jennifer; Yu, Justin R. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2011
This article describes a new hands-on, or "kinesthetic," activity for use in a physiology lecture hall to help students comprehend an important concept in cardiopulmonary physiology known as oxygen carrying capacity. One impetus for designing this activity was to address the needs of students who have a preference for kinesthetic…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Student Surveys, Active Learning, Physiology
Exploring the Nature of the Relation between Interest and Comprehension
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Tin, Tan Bee – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
This paper examines the complex relation between interest and comprehension recorded by postgraduate students in a language teacher education programme at various stages of two-hour lectures. The quantitative analysis suggests that its relationship with comprehension changes as the lecture continues. The analysis is also triangulated with the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Lecture Method, Student Interests, Teacher Education Programs
A Comparative Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) versus Class Room Lecture (RL) for Computer Science at ICS Level
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Kausar, Tayyaba; Choudhry, Bushra Naoreen; Gujjar, Aijaz Ahmed – Online Submission, 2008
This study was aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of CAI vs. classroom lecture for computer science at ICS level. The objectives were to compare the learning effects of two groups with class room lecture and computer assisted instruction studying the same curriculum and the effects of CAI and CRL in terms of cognitive development. Hypothesis of…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Research Design, Teacher Effectiveness, Computer Assisted Instruction
Constructivist or Expository Instructional Approaches: Does Instruction Have an Effect on the Accuracy of Judgment of Learning (JOL)?
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Sigler, Ellen A.; Saam, Julie – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2007
This study extrapolated from Liberman's (2004) calibration model and Kimball and Metcalfe's (2003) conceptualization in order to evaluate students' judgment of learning (JOL) of material presented in either an expository or a constructivist format. The purpose of this study was to determine if students have differing degrees of JOL based on the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Conventional Instruction, Lecture Method, Comparative Analysis