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Pinheiro, Rómulo; Langa, Patricio V.; Pausits, Attila – European Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Globally, debates on the notion of a third set of activities aimed at linking higher education institutions more closely with surrounding society are not new. In the last decade or so, calls for a re-engagement of the university in helping to tackle the great challenges facing societies and local communities have propelled the third mission to the…
Descriptors: Universities, Institutional Mission, Institutional Characteristics, Conflict
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Gehlhar, Adam M.; Duffield, Stacy K. – Middle School Journal, 2015
This article will define the engineering design process used to create an integrated curriculum at STEM Center Middle School, and it features the planning, implementation, and revision of the Deconstruction Geography unit. The Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Center opened in the fall of 2009 as a way to relieve overcrowding at the…
Descriptors: Geography, STEM Education, Teacher Collaboration, Middle School Teachers
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Helens-Hart, Rose – Communication Teacher, 2015
Coming-out scenarios have been described as potentially traumatic events that change the parent-child relationship (MacDonald, 1983). Little research in the field of communication studies has been conducted on how the process of coming out unfolds within families (Valentine, Skelton, & Butler, 2003). The exercise described in this article…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Parent Child Relationship, Data Interpretation, Learning Activities
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Hall, Angela; Palmer, Emma – School Science Review, 2015
The Nuffield Foundation's Practical Work for Learning project takes the position that practical work is not a pedagogic approach in its own right, but that its affordances for learning depend on how successfully other pedagogies are applied to practical lessons. The design process used in the project is made explicit, illustrating…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Hands on Science, Science Projects, Lesson Plans
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Messersmith, Amber S. – Communication Teacher, 2015
Facilitating meaningful interaction among students is a significant challenge of teaching in the online environment. This paper presents a semester-long approach that enables quality interaction among group members within undergraduate online group communication courses while experiencing the challenges of working with geographically dispersed…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Online Courses, Communication Strategies, Communication Skills
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Nitzkin, Karen; Katzir, Tami; Shulkind, Sarah – Middle School Journal (J3), 2014
This article tells the story of a group of seventh grade teachers and administrators in one Los Angeles middle school who have grappled for years with the poor reading skills of their middle school students. Discouraged by the reading scores on standardized tests and frustrated with the limits of their readers, this group struggled to improve…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Middle School Teachers, Reading Skills
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Esselstein, Rachel – PRIMUS, 2013
A capstone project is required for every graduating student from California State University, Monterey Bay. Due to dramatic growth in the number of senior math majors as well as the extreme workload required of faculty advisers, our department developed a new model for the capstone which not only addressed workload issues but also improved the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Educational Practices, Educational Quality, Program Improvement
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Jang, Bong Gee; Conradi, Kristin; McKenna, Michael C.; Jones, Jill S. – Reading Teacher, 2015
The main purpose of this article is to provide educators with clear definitions of motivational factors in reading so that instructional planning can capitalize on important distinctions. The authors present definitions of a small set of related motivational concepts (including attitudes, interests, self-efficacy, self-concept, goals, and value)…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Definitions, Reading Motivation, Instructional Development
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Cocodia, Ebinepre A. – Higher Education Studies, 2014
Using a reflective practice approach this paper provides an outline of the development of a new career development and counselling program for students within a medical sciences off-campus precinct. Drawing on Schön's (1983) reflective practice framework the aim included reflecting "in" and "on" action during the development…
Descriptors: Career Development, Medical Students, Educational Practices, Career Counseling
Hong, Yi-Chun; Clinton, Gregory; Rieber, Lloyd P. – Educational Technology, 2014
Profitable creative ideas can emerge from within virtually any phase of the instructional design and development process. However, the design of user interactions is perhaps where learners can most directly experience the benefits of such ideas. In this article, the authors discuss principles of learner interaction as found in the instructional…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Creative Development, Creative Thinking
Peled, Shir; Schocken, Shimon – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The ability to develop engaging simulations and constructive learning experiences using mobile devices is unprecedented, presenting a disruption in educational practices of historical proportions. In this paper we describe some of the unique virtues that mobile learning hold for early age mathematics education. In particular, we describe how…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Mathematics Education, Learning Experience, Educational Practices
Gross, Raymond – Online Submission, 2012
This report summarizes select results for items pertaining to Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), teacher collaboration, instructional practice, and teacher planning from the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL) AISD Working Conditions and the 2011-2012 Employee Coordinated (ECS) surveys.
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Educational Practices, Released Time
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Clarfield, Geoffrey – Academic Questions, 2013
The author of this article, a developmental anthropologist, illustrates how the instructor can use ethnographic films to enhance the study of anthropology and override notions about the scope and efficacy of Western intervention in the Third World, provided the instructor places such films in their proper historical and cultural context. He…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Cultural Context, Multimedia Instruction, Anthropology
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Demmans Epp, Carrie; Park, Gina; Plumb, Christopher – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2015
The increased linguistic and cultural diversity of undergraduate classrooms at English language institutions has imposed additional pedagogical and assessment challenges on instructors, many of whom lack the knowledge necessary to design classroom activities and assessments that are fair to all students regardless of students' background and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Instructional Design, Instructional Development
Reigeluth, Charles M. – Educational Technology, 2014
The learner-centered paradigm of education requires very different roles for technology, as well as for teachers and students, compared with the teacher-centered paradigm. Rather than almost exclusively serving the teacher for teaching, technology primarily serves the student for learning. It does so through four major roles: (1) keeping records…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Influence of Technology, Educational Technology, Student Centered Curriculum
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