Implementing Project-Based Learning for Sustainability Management Course at Postgraduate Level

Wahid, Marfiah Ab.; Lee, Wei-Koon; Baharudin, Fauzi

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“…The project-based learning (PBL) approach became popular in the 90s across several academic fields; nonetheless, the concept of learning through experience emerged earlier with John Dewey's notions and arguments and started to be adopted across medical and engineering colleges in the 70 s (Dochy et al, 2003). Nowadays, many postgraduate programs base their PBL approaches on Dewey's concepts (Ab Wahid et al, 2020;Karim et al, 2019;Parrado-Mart ınez and S anchez-And ujar, 2020). Dewey's views and arguments are not restricted to the "learning by experience" component of PBL in graduate courses, but they underpin the process of reflection required from postgraduate students on their progress and completed projects as an inevitable learning outcome (Ab Wahid et al, 2020).…”

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“…Nowadays, many postgraduate programs base their PBL approaches on Dewey's concepts (Ab Wahid et al, 2020;Karim et al, 2019;Parrado-Mart ınez and S anchez-And ujar, 2020). Dewey's views and arguments are not restricted to the "learning by experience" component of PBL in graduate courses, but they underpin the process of reflection required from postgraduate students on their progress and completed projects as an inevitable learning outcome (Ab Wahid et al, 2020). The need for reflection is heavily informed by Dewey's famous argument (as cited by Schmidt, 2010) that students do not only learn from experimenting but also from reflecting on their experience, where reflection supports students in internalizing the knowledge and skills they have acquired and think about how they can transfer such knowledge and skills to other settings beyond the assigned project.…”

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Facilitating computing education to graduate students in journalism and public relations from Dewey's lens: prototyping

Sharafeddin¹,

Samarji²

2022

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PurposeIn a technological era driven by coding, programming and artificial intelligence (AI), there is more need than ever to develop computing skills and knowledge for non-specialist students. Nonetheless, the literature on computer science teaching methods of non-scientific majors is not as comprehensive as that of scientific ones.Design/methodology/approachPedagogically, the authors designed and implemented prototyping from John Dewey's pragmatic epistemological lens. Using a mixed methods approach, the authors tested the effectiveness and efficiency of this approach within the same course over four semesters across four academic years.FindingsAs an epistemological pedagogic device, prototyping facilitated learning by doing and experimenting and stimulated graduate students' self-directed learning, engagement and their overall ownership of the learning and teaching process, changing their role from being merely passive recipients of “strange, awkward and unfamiliar” knowledge to active constructors of “relevant and exciting” content knowledge. Such a change was reflected in the significant progress students made, driven by their commitment, motivation and enthusiasm, irrespective of their prior knowledge and age (Generations X, Y and Z). Prototyping also served as an avenue for a “Deweyian Reflection”, where graduate students, after internalizing the acquired computing skills and knowledge, started transferring such skills and knowledge to their professions (journalism and public relations (PR)) and daily practices.Research limitations/implicationsFindings from this study will add to the literature review on this subject matter and will inform future case studies in computer science education for graduate students from non-scientific backgrounds.Practical implicationsThis paper reveals that learning by doing/experimenting needs to be accompanied by in-depth reflection to enable students to transfer the acquired knowledge and skills to other settings and contexts beyond that of the lesson, task, or project in hand.Originality/valueThere is little research published on introductory programming courses offered to non-specialized students (i.e. students from non-scientific backgrounds). This study contributes to the body of research on how to effectively engage these students in programming courses informed by John Dewey's pragmatic lens/epistemological lens.

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2022

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“…Malaysia believes that environmental sustainability initiatives and awareness should ideally be rooted in tertiary education, or the university environment (Wahid et al, 2020). Furthermore, this awareness must be instilled from the start of each child's education so that this behavioural change and adaptation toward sustainability is continuously practised as they progress up the value chain in the education stream (Kinjawan et al, 2020).…”

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Communicating Sustainability Fashion in Marketing Advertisements on the Context of Malaysia: Stimuli Development and Pre-Testing Results

Hasbullah¹,

Kiflee²,

Sulaiman³

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Although awareness of sustainable fashion in Malaysia is present, it is growing slowly. Consumers may find it challenging to understand messages or communicating advertisements on pro-environmental actions. Accordingly, stimuli development was designed in this study using regulatory focus theory for the structural development of an advertisement message. The advertisement content was generated based on promotion and prevention regulatory focus messages. This pre-testing study involved 30 university students who were randomly assigned to one of two treatment conditions: promotion or prevention regulatory focus message (n = 15 per group). The data were analysed with an independent samples t-test. The advertisement with the promotion-focused message was more persuasive than that with the prevention-focused message. The findings suggest guidelines for practitioners to devise effective strategies when designing advertisements that will not only help firms obtain personal benefits but also benefit society and the environment.

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“…The educational process in higher education as a system of organizational and didactic initiatives aimed at implementing the content of education at a certain level of education in training specialists is regulated by state standards. In accordance with the state standard of higher education, work programs and programs are approved at the Department of Natural Sciences and Humanities of the Branch of IUT in Surgut (Ilyinich, 2019;Ab Wahid, et al, 2020).…”

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Assessing the student academic workload in the learning process of a technical university

Ibatova

2021

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The article deals with an assessment of the students' workload influence on the academic progress in a technical university. This study was carried out at Tyumen Industrial University, the Branch of IUT in Surgut. The research participants were the first-year students of full-time and part-time departments of the "Oil and Gas Business" direction. The research was done in 2017-2018. Much attention is given to some of the consequences that first-year students have: neuropsychic stress, declining academic progress, and the quality of education. There are reasons for such a state: lack of time, a large amount of information, many classroom hours, irregular distribution of the students' workload intensity of academic disciplines in the first semester, etc. The research gives valuable information on the necessity to improve the system of students' organizational and educational activities, depending on the specific features of a technical university. This study contributes to the existing research on the impact of academic workload on the students' emotional, mental state in higher education. Specifically, it studies the volume of the freshmen's academic workload in accordance with the curriculum, which is one of the main negative factors affecting the level of mental students' performance.

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Implementing Project-Based Learning for Sustainability Management Course at Postgraduate Level

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Facilitating computing education to graduate students in journalism and public relations from Dewey's lens: prototyping

Facilitating computing education to graduate students in journalism and public relations from Dewey's lens: prototyping

Communicating Sustainability Fashion in Marketing Advertisements on the Context of Malaysia: Stimuli Development and Pre-Testing Results

Assessing the student academic workload in the learning process of a technical university

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