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Direct linkCho, Hyun Jin; Wang, Cong; Bonem, Emily M.; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
The aims of this paper are to examine the breadth of scholarship that emerged from a large-scale university-wide course transformation program between 2011 and 2021, to investigate how the course transformation program influenced students' perceptions of their learning environment and learning achievement, and to discuss future directions for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Educational Change
Download full textLeach, Lesley F.; Reyes, Juanita M.; Baker, Credence; Glaman, Ryan; Barkley, Jordan M.; Beach, Don M.; Higham, J. Russell; Rynearson, Kimberly; Weber, Mark; Farmer, Tod Allen; Bowden, Randall; Brock, Jesse; Bunch, Phillis – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2020
As members of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), universities across the United States are restructuring EdD programs to better prepare professional practitioners with the practical skills and theoretical knowledge needed to improve the educational environments that they serve. The hallmark of these programs is often the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Program Development, Doctoral Dissertations, College Faculty
Campbell, Rebecca; Blankenship, Benjamin B. – To Improve the Academy, 2020
Colleges and universities have a commitment to improve the student experience, increase persistence, and provide paths to degree completion. Course redesign, focused on student success, is a promising strategy for realizing that commitment. This article examines some of the particulars when course redesign is explicitly linked to student success.…
Descriptors: Courses, Higher Education, Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement
Book, Patricia A. – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2014
The perceived value of postsecondary education to economic competitiveness and individual success is driving innovation in higher education. Competency-based education (CBE) is the latest disruption that seeks to respond to the growing sense of national urgency to boost education attainment. The target audience generally includes those adult…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Models, Courses
Peer reviewedIrving, Eugene – National Academic Advising Association Journal, 1990
The Course Selection Matrix Chart helps student and counselor produce an objective ranking of available courses. The versatile and convenient five-step self-help method can accommodate comparison of up to seven courses and may be modified to compare items other than courses. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, College Students, Courses, Decision Making
Peer reviewedHansen, Forest – Thought and Action, 1991
A Lake Forest College (Illinois) program involved college faculty participation in a local high school's interdisciplinary course for gifted students. The course, which focused on how myths, theories, and other reflections on time have entered into cultures, science, literature, and visual art, illustrates how small-scale collaboration can…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Courses, Gifted, High Schools
Magner, Denise K. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1990
At a conference on the senior year experience, participants described "capstone" courses that pull together the themes of a student's major and investigate ethics and civic responsibility. Employers said many college graduates were unprepared to work in teams and unwilling to pay their dues by starting in entry-level positions. (MLW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Capstone Experiences, College Seniors, Courses
Sims, Ronald R., Ed.; Sims, Serbrenia J., Ed. – 1995
This volume contains 12 papers on models of different learning styles, instruments to evaluate learning styles, and techniques for assessing individual learning characteristics as well as the future of learning style research and its implications for enhancing learning in higher education institutions. The papers are: "Learning Enhancement in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cognitive Style, College Faculty, College Instruction
Education Fund of District Council 37: A Case Study. Worker Education and Training Policies Project.
Shore, Jane – 1979
This report describes and analyzes the programs of the Education Fund of District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in New York City. The Education Fund is a program carried out by the union to provide a wide variety of educational curricula, many on its premises, for the union's thousands of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Case Studies
