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Anne Price; Michael Savoie – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
The concept and practice of experiential education is rapidly expanding as universities seek to strengthen and integrate high-impact practices under experiential education plans and centers. While this integration has the potential to create synergy across disparate experiential learning offerings and to provide the benefits of experiential…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Case Studies, Universities, Program Evaluation
Regan, Tiffany Arnett – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this descriptive case study was to identify teacher strengths and needs to create a site-specific professional development program for literacy. I was interested in studying how to identify teacher needs and strengths and explore the compatibility between teacher beliefs, current practice, and best practices in literacy. This study…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Developing Nations, Case Studies
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Dee, Jay R.; Heineman, William A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2016
This chapter provides a conceptual model that academic leaders can use to navigate the complex, and often contentious, organizational terrain of academic program development. The model includes concepts related to the institution's external environment, as well as internal organizational structures, cultures, and politics. Drawing from the…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, College Programs, Program Development, Context Effect
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Schneider, Jack – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
Teach For America (TFA), an organization that places college graduates in urban and rural classrooms for two-year terms of service, is lauded by reformers who see its five-week summer training institute as evidence that teachers have little to learn before entering classrooms. Yet, while boosters see TFA as a radical alternative to traditional…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Preservice Teacher Education, Summer Programs, Institutes (Training Programs)
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Gigliotti, Ralph A. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2015
This case study presents an overview of the development of a new Office for Leadership Programs at Villanova University, housed under the Office of Student Development. Adapting Kingdon's (1984) public policy model to the creation of new initiatives in student affairs, this article offers a conceptual framework for the design of new student…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Leadership Training, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
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Darder Mesquida, Antònia; Pérez Garcias, Adolfina – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2015
Research project tutoring appears as a crucial element for teaching; it is a planned action based on the relationship between a tutor and a student. This paper presents the findings of a design and development research which has as its main aim to create an organization system for the tutoring of online research projects. That system seeks to…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Supervision, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Triana, Benjamin – Environmental Education Research, 2016
This ethnography documents how the message of sustainability was interpreted and communicated through a sustainable agricultural (SAG) program at an American higher education institution. The ethnography documents the evolution of the program as the program tackled obstacles and accomplished its goals during the initial phases of the program's…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Sustainable Development, Agricultural Education, Case Studies
Gaus, Frances Gayle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Over the past four decades there has been a great amount of research on retention of students in higher education institutions (Tinto, 2006); however, few studies have examined the effect of what institutions provide for student support, regarding retention, specifically allied health program students. Retention of community college students in…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Program Development, School Holding Power, Community Colleges
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Niemeyer, Dodie J.; Gerber, Hannah R. – Educational Media International, 2015
Collaborative learning environments found with gaming communities can provide excellent structures to study the way that learners act within informal learning environments. For example, many of these gaming communities encourage gamers to create videogames and virtual world walkthroughs and commentaries. Walkthroughs and commentaries provide…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Educational Games, Computer Games, Communities of Practice
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Voss, Julia – Across the Disciplines, 2016
Writing studies has considered college students' literacy development as a chronological progression and as influenced by their off-campus connections to various cultural and professional communities. This project considers students' literacy development across disciplines and university activity systems in which they're simultaneously involved to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, Communities of Practice, Educational Practices
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Dixon, Rob; Slanickova, Daniela; Warwick, Philip – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2013
International partnerships are an essential tool to enable business schools to internationalize their activities. They can lead to improved research, better more internationally relevant teaching, provide staff with an international perspective, and help prepare students for careers in global business. Using case studies of four of Durham…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Partnerships in Education, Global Approach, Case Studies
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Spencer, Jan; Maynard, Sally – Journal of Museum Education, 2014
A significant amount of research supports the value of learning outside the classroom for creating effective learning opportunities, and for the social, cultural and emotional benefits it presents. Although there is a movement in place in the United Kingdom to integrate learning outside the classroom into classroom practice, many pre-service…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Informal Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Harkness, S. Suzan J. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2015
This case study describes an initiative approach to establishing online learning at a medium-size historically black college university. The study reveals the collaborative efforts between university administration and faculty, Quality Matters™, and Blackboard. The strategic initiative spanned a period of five academic years (2010-2014) during…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Sustainability, Online Courses, Partnerships in Education
Conley, David T. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2014
This policy report provides an overview of the Common Core State Standards, how they were developed, the sources that were referenced in their development, the need for educational standards generally, what they entail, and what it will mean for educators to implement them. The report draws from research and reference material to outline the…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Educational Policy, Program Descriptions, Program Development
Paz, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Catholic schools in the United States have grappled with how to serve students with disabilities without the funding sources available to public schools. This mixed methods case study examines the driving forces, restraining forces, and social justice issues that influenced the development of an inclusion program at one Catholic elementary school.…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Elementary Schools, Disabilities, Mixed Methods Research
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