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Beagon, Una; Kövesi, Klara; Tabas, Brad; Nørgaard, Bente; Lehtinen, Riitta; Bowe, Brian; Gillet, Christiane; Spliid, Claus Monrad – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Despite the emerging discussions about the growing role of engineers in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there is a lack of agreement on which competences should be prioritised to prepare engineering students to resolve future sustainability challenges. This study examined and compared the views of key stakeholders of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Barriers, Sustainable Development, Objectives
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Karrebaek, Martha Sif; Nergiz, Özgün – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
Although not often discussed, complementary ('mother tongue') classrooms comprise participants who differ substantially in a number of ways. Differences comprise, e.g. participants' orientations to and understandings of the indexicalities of linguistic registers, which may have been brought along from the presupposed country of origin. It has…
Descriptors: Socialization, Classroom Communication, Native Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Lipowski, Katrin; Jorde, Doris; Prenzel, Manfred; Seidel, Tina – Professional Development in Education, 2011
International comparisons in science (and mathematics) education show the relevance of teaching quality for learning outcomes. Teacher professional development (TPD) is hence considered particularly relevant for improving teaching and learning in science. The study at hand is part of a European network initiative named Mind the Gap that explores…
Descriptors: Expertise, Qualitative Research, Teacher Effectiveness, Interviews
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Skov, Mikael Brasholt; Stage, Jan – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
Many efforts to improve the interplay between usability evaluation and software development rely either on better methods for conducting usability evaluations or on better formats for presenting evaluation results in ways that are useful for software designers and developers. Both of these approaches depend on a complete division of work between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Introductory Courses, Evaluators, Computer Software
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers