Preliminary communication

THE QUALITY OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING

Ladislav Bognar ; Učiteljski fakultet, Osijek, Hrvatska
Snježana Kragulj ; Učiteljski fakultet, Osijek, Hrvatska

Abstract

The paper provides insight in the quality of university teaching. Students seem to be dissatisfied with the teaching that takes place in classrooms and which mostly comes down to frontal lectures. Apart from analysing the current conditions in the university teaching, the authors also offer suggestions that would be interesting to students and would make them more active learners. Students’ comments about teaching are found on the classroom walls and in the survey about quality of university teaching conducted among students in the academic year of 2009/2010.
The wall inscriptions are considered to be a reaction to inadequate lectures and they are detected precisely in the classrooms intended for frontal teaching. The authors believe that frontal teaching is not necessarily bad, but this concept is didactically neglected. Therefore authors’ suggestions are primarily directed to this form of university teaching and they are focused on three basic questions pointed out by
students as essential to the quality of teaching: How to make oral presentations moreinteresting? How to make students active during the lecture? and How to create a pleasant learning atmosphere?

Keywords

university teaching; high-quality teaching; oral presentation; interesting; activity; atmosphere

Hrčak ID:

63284

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/63284

Publication date:

6.12.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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