Methods and Materials for Professional Development of Lecturers
Methods and Materials for Professional Development of Lecturers

Author(s): Inés Gómez-Chacón, Reinhard Hochmuth, Svitlana Rogovchenko, Nataša Brouwer
Subject(s): Higher Education , Educational Psychology, Methodology and research technology, Pedagogy
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: lecturers; professional development; IBME; PLATINUM; methods;
Summary/Abstract: Traditional lecturing in universities is still a common teaching practice, although research has shown that lecturing on its own is often not sufficient and leads under the existing examination conditions to surface learning (Biggs, 2003; Freeman et al., 2014). In many science and engineering programs, mathematics is still learned mainly procedurally instead of having a purposeful balance between procedural and conceptual learning (Mason et al., 2010). Occasionally there is the belief that being able to teach mathematics is automatically acquired along with years of teaching (Chalmers & Gardiner, 2015) and the unsuccessful learning results are more or less the necessary consequence of untalented students. In the professional development programmes that are organised together for university lecturers from different disciplines, there is usually no specific focus on mathematics education at university level.

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