Effects of a Short Course Training Program on Approaches to Teaching in Higher Education: Example from Croatia

Autor/inn/en	Bušljeta Kardum, Rona; Juric Vukelic, Dunja; Brajkovic, Lovorka
Titel	Effects of a Short Course Training Program on Approaches to Teaching in Higher Education: Example from Croatia
Quelle	In: Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 81 (2023) 5, S.572-585 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bušljeta Kardum, Rona) ORCID (Juric Vukelic, Dunja) ORCID (Brajkovic, Lovorka)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1822-7864
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Faculty; Faculty Development; Teaching Methods; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Competencies; Croatia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fakultät; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerverhalten; Lehrkunst; Kroatien
Abstract	European countries, in accordance with their higher education policy, regulate in various ways the need for additional professional education of higher education teachers. In the Republic of Croatia, despite the recognized need to improve the process of teaching and learning at the higher education level, efforts and activities in this direction are left to the universities. The main aim of the present study was to examine how the participants of the short course training program on approaches to teaching in higher education in Croatia perceived their own teaching and learning competencies before and after attending the program. University teachers from five higher education institutions in the Republic of Croatia participated in the research. The participants assessed agreement with the statements related to various teaching competencies, important for university teachers, on a 5-point Likert-type scale. The results obtained through research quantitative and qualitative methods indicate that the participants of the short course training program on approaches to teaching in higher education evaluate their own teaching competencies better at the end than at the beginning of the program. The obtained results indicate the importance of formal training and improvement of teaching competencies of university teachers and can serve as an assessment of the expediency of the short course training program on approaches to teaching in higher education at the national level and as a basis for comparison with programs implemented at other European universities. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01