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Strengthening Collaborative Capacity: Experiences from a Short, Intensive Field Course on Ecosystems, Health and Society
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Parkes, Margot W.; Saint-Charles, Johanne; Cole, Donald C.; Gislason, Maya; Hicks, Elisabeth; Le Bourdais, Courtney; McKellar, Kaileah A.; St-Cyr Bouchard, Maude – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
A key capacity for engagement in the emerging field of ecohealth is the ability to work collaboratively. Between 2008 and 2010, the Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health collectively designed and delivered three foundational, intensive, field courses. This paper presents findings derived from both quantitative and…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Cooperation
Blending Our Practice: Using Online and Face-to-Face Methods to Sustain Community among Faculty in an Extended Length Professional Development Program
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Paskevicius, Michael; Bortolin, Kathleen – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
This paper outlines the design and implementation of a nine-month faculty development programme delivered using a combination of face-to-face and online methods. Participants from a range of disciplines met at regular intervals throughout the year. Between the face-to-face meetings, participants engaged in online activities such as discussions,…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Conventional Instruction, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods
Experiential Learning for Sustainability Leadership in Higher Education
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Savage, Emma; Tapics, Tara; Evarts, John; Wilson, Jeffrey; Tirone, Susan – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare the program design of a sustainability leadership certificate to participants' perceptions of their in-program learnings and competencies development. The authors present the results from the analysis of one program evaluation component, a survey, which was delivered before the program start and at…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Sustainability, Program Design, Statistical Analysis
Therapeutic Factors in Group Treatment as Perceived by Sex Offenders: A "Consumer's Report"
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Reimer, Wilbert L.; Mathieu, Tina – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2006
Thirty-four (34) federally sentenced sex offenders in British Columbia were surveyed using the Yalom (1995) 12 therapeutic factors presented in a 60-item questionnaire Likert format, as well as a semi-structured interview regarding their perceptions of which curative factors were most beneficial to them in treatment. The mean scores for catharsis…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Foreign Countries, Emotional Experience, Group Therapy
Program Review Model.
Lafleur, Clay – 1991
A program review model that can be used at the system level in the Simcoe County in Ontario (Canada) schools is presented. Program review is a process of systematically marshalling information so as to enable individuals to critically debate a specific program and eventually make more informed decisions about the program. A variety of conceptual…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Moving the Markers: New Perspectives on Adult Literacy Rates in Canada
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Sussman, Susan B. – Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2003
This report describes a project originally intended to identify demographic patterns among adults with low literacy skills in each Canadian province. The project was carried out between March 2000 and June 2001 under the auspices of Movement for Canadian Literacy (MCL). The project was based on the assumption that demographic information about…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Older Adults, Demography, Research Methodology