Teaching and Learning
In essence teaching is to impart knowledge or skill and learning is to acquire knowledge or skill by study. SBS believes in promoting excellence in learning and teaching practices, curriculum planning and design, services to support the use of technology in education, and institutional policies and infrastructure to enhance the learning environment.
This is only possible in a student-centered teaching and learning environment. SBS draws on a growing body of research knowledge in establishing principles of effective learning and teaching. The principles are based partly on seven principles of good practice in undergraduate education1, which is the culmination of 50 years of higher education research2. It incorporates the "lessons learned" for online instruction by a team of five evaluators from Indiana University's Center for Research on Learning and Technology3:
- Encourage contact between faculty and students. Faculty concern helps students get through rough times and keep on working.
- Use a team approach wherever possible. Working with others often increases involvement in learning.
- Effective learning requires prompt feedback.
- Emphasise time on task: Allocating realistic amounts of time means effective learning for students and effective teaching for faculty.
- Engage students actively: People learn to do well only what they practice doing.
- Respect diverse talents and ways of learning.
- Welcome creativity and curiosity.
- Build on success.
- Avoid dogmatism - science is not an unalterable truth.
Southern Business School only offers qualifications in management and related subject disciplines, allowing us to focus on what we do best — prepare managers for the challenges of the business environment. We offer formal, informal and in-house educational opportunities.
- 1. Chickering, A.W. & Gamson, Z.F. (1987) Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. Retrieved from http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachti...
- 2. Chickering, A., & Reisser, L. (1993). Education and identity. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- 3. Graham, C., Cagiltay, K., Lim, B., Craner, J., & Duffy, T.M. (2001, March/April). Seven principles of effective teaching: a practical lens for evaluating online courses. Technology Source, Retrieved from http://technologysource.org/article/seven_principles_of_effective_teaching/ on 5 February 2010.
