Teaching Practice Skills to Online MSW Students

Jackson, Mark; Colvin, Alex D.; Bullock, Angela N.; Li, Qingyi

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“…A blended or hybrid social work lab can take full advantage of the benefits of each platform—online and face-to-face –to promote student learning better than either platform alone (Jackson et al, 2020 ). One of the most important advantages of blended learning for students is to acquire a multitude of real-world skills that directly translate into life skills, preparing the students for their future by using social group work (Golea and Neamţu, 2012 ).…”

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Learning Effectiveness of Social Work Methods With Groups, in Online and Face-to-Face Contexts

Neamţu

Faludi

2021

Front. Psychol.

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During the last three decades, thousands of highly qualified social workers who graduated from Romanian universities were employed in the public systems of social work of the European Union. Social group work is studied as a compulsory discipline for undergraduate students. The major focus of our study was the effectiveness of the learning of Social Work Methods with Groups (SWMG) of students, using workshops in a full-time undergraduate program from Romania. We were interested in finding out the perceptions of students about their learning processes and outcomes in the context of teaching the same discipline exclusively in the online medium, due to the pandemic, and in the face-to-face environment via traditional classroom instruction. This study had a mainly quantitative design, covering two academic years between 2018 and 2020 for the two cohorts of social work students. The core analysis was focused on the activities of students at the SWMG laboratories: 50 students in 2020 and 92 students in 2019. Descriptive, inferential statistics and thematic content analysis were applied to two types of deliverables of students: the self-assessment sheet and the group plan. The results of our study showed that training of cognitive and self-awareness skills prevailed among the students who learned online in 2020, while the acquisition of interpersonal skills was reported at a significantly higher level by students who learned in the face-to-face medium in 2019. The students in the traditional classrooms favoured the training of other professional skills, too, like problem-solving skills. However, students who studied exclusively online attributed a significantly greater overall usefulness of SWMG workshops for professional practise than their peers who participated in the face-to-face laboratories. A remarkable result was that more therapeutic and support groups were preferred in the online environment, maybe related to the concerns generated by the pandemic. Remote education forced most students to return to their original places of residence, mostly in the countryside and brought negative psychological effects caused by social isolation due to the pandemic. Remote learning is not the most desirable educational option. Students gain most from blended teaching-learning vehicles: face-to-face and online medium.

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Learning Effectiveness of Social Work Methods With Groups, in Online and Face-to-Face Contexts

Neamţu

Faludi

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Embracing New Ways of Learning and Teaching

McCaughren

2021

Handbook of Research on Applying Universal Design for Learning Across Disciplines

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This chapter discusses novel approaches to learning and teaching practice skills for social work students. It documents the potential of advances in digital technology for assisting learning and teaching students in line with UDL principles. It looks at a novel approach to teaching practice skills in the discipline of social work and its use for inter-professional education. Key principles of universal design for learning will be explored in the context of some early-stage empirical research undertaken with students in redesigning a module in skills learning. Some attention will also be given to how advances in digital technology can assist a more enhanced, inclusive, and collaborative learning environment for students.

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Teaching Practice Skills to Online MSW Students

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Learning Effectiveness of Social Work Methods With Groups, in Online and Face-to-Face Contexts

Learning Effectiveness of Social Work Methods With Groups, in Online and Face-to-Face Contexts

Embracing New Ways of Learning and Teaching

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