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Kálmán, Orsolya; Tynjälä, Päivi; Skaniakos, Terhi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Many studies have been conducted about academics' approaches to teaching, professional development and perceived departmental culture, but their interconnectedness has been considered to a lesser extent. The research presented here examined these patterns comparatively by disciplinary fields and years of teaching experience. Three inventories were…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Departments, Organizational Culture
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Björklund, Tua A.; Nordström, Katrina M.; Clavert, Maria – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2013
The paper presents a Sino-Finnish teaching initiative, including the design and experiences of a series of pedagogical workshops implemented at the Aalto-Tongji Design Factory (DF), Shanghai, China, and the experimentation plans collected from the 54 attending professors and teachers. The workshops aimed to encourage trying out interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experimental Teaching, Teacher Workshops, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Apiola, Mikko; Lattu, Matti; Pasanen, Tomi A. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2012
Despite much public discussion about the importance of creativity and innovation-friendly teaching in Finnish higher education, the impact of the general opinion on actual teaching practices has been limited. In the Finnish computer science education the teaching mostly follows a pattern of lectures, fixed exercise sets, and exams. With this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Robotics, College Instruction