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Mike Morris – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To meet the employment demands in the information technology industry, it is crucial for higher education institutions to design sustainable curricula to prepare students with the knowledge and skills needed to enter and stay competitive in an ever-changing workforce. A review of one Mid-Atlantic University's information technology programs…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
Sugat Dabholkar – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation is about designing learning environments that foreground students' epistemic agency as they "do science" in a science classroom. I build on the prior work that combines two important strands in learning sciences - agent-based modeling of complex systems and constructionism to design learning environments. I call such…
Descriptors: Science Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Environment, Active Learning
Reupena Tofiga Lesa – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this capstone project was to develop a curriculum product in the form of professional development training that would prepare college faculty to use Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (MOODLE) course management software in their community college classes. This curriculum project provided faculty members with…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Technology Integration, Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology
Emily Marie Lovell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The field of computer science has long been plagued by issues of diversity - in particular, attracting and retaining those historically marginalized in computing contexts. This is a great loss to the field, to the future of innovation, and to society. Perhaps most importantly, it is an incalculable loss to those populations excluded from pursuing…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Student Diversity, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Ekaterina Tabenkina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present project is a research-based and practice-tested online synchronous curriculum for English language learners with the Russian language mother tongue. The curriculum's theoretical component is grounded in Vygotsky's, Leont'ev', and Engestrom's "Cultural Historical Activity Theory" as well as in scholarly papers on the influence…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ryoo, Kihyun – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The significant increase of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States raises complex questions about how to provide these students with access to high quality education that can improve both their content knowledge of school subjects and their English proficiency, particularly their academic English proficiency. The development of…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Curriculum Design, Computer Simulation, Second Language Learning