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Lynn A. Tovar – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2024
A small university in rural Texas explored developing a criminal justice bachelor's degree curriculum through the lens of perspective transformation focusing on humanity courses, resulting in a paradigm shift away from a traditional criminal justice baccalaureate degree curriculum. This article addresses the university's journey in developing the…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Rural Areas, Universities, Curriculum Development
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Andrew Pilsch – Learning, Media and Technology, 2024
This article considers what 'minimal' might mean in the context of using minimal computing tools in the humanities classroom. Specifically, it recounts experiences teaching students to make websites using Jekyll, a popular minimal website generation tool, using different understandings of 'minimal.' In one, students were encouraged to use a Web…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Humanities Instruction, Web Sites
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Craig, Heidi; O'Sullivan, Kevin M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This article reports upon the development and implementation of a new literary research methods course in a remote teaching context. This updated curriculum is predicated on the notion that digital and traditional methods each work best when they expand and improve the other. Key facets of the new curriculum are outlined, with sample topics and…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Courses, Research Methodology, Distance Education
Salisbury, Kurt; Nichols, T. Philip – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Recently, makerspaces have captured the imaginations of educators as resources for transforming school-based learning. Aligning informal making practices with the formal aims of the school curriculum, however, can present challenges. In this article, Philip Nichols and Kurt Salisbury show how educators in two very different contexts -- a suburban…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, Secondary Schools
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Tyler S. Branson; James Chase Sanchez; Sarah Ruffing Robbins; Catherine M. Wehlburg – College Composition and Communication, 2017
This essay reports on a writing-based formative assessment of a university-wide initiative to enhance students' global learning. Our mixed (and unanticipated) results show the need for enhanced expertise in writing assessment as well as for sustained partnerships among diverse institutional stakeholders so that public programming--from events…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, College Students, Global Approach
Texas Association for Community Service and Continuing Education. – 1990
This volume contains papers of interest to Texas Association for Community Service and Continuing Education (TACSCE) members. The editorial, "Planning to Fail" (Silvia Lesko), emphasizes the importance of strategic planning. A perspective paper, titled "Continuing Education as a Vehicle for Economic Development and/or Recovery"…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Education, Community Services, Continuing Education