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Thomas, Ian; Meehan, Barry – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2010
Many universities have strategies for exposing students to international experiences, but little is reported on their implementation. One example of an implemented activity is the multidisciplinary research project for undergraduate environment students, at RMIT University, that both prepares students to work in the environment profession and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cultural Awareness, Environmental Education, Career Choice
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Lappalainen, P. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2010
The changes facing industries are necessitating a concomitant change in university curriculum. Before instigating a reform, however, education providers need to acquire an understanding of the most pertinent development needs essential for filling industrial competence gaps. The Language Centre at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Problem Based Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Moore, Lori L.; Boyd, Barry L.; Rosser, Manda H.; Elbert, Chanda – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
This paper advances the notion that global leadership is a necessary component of undergraduate agricultural leadership. Within an existing leadership curriculum, the development of at least three new courses with innovative approaches to such a globalized curriculum is justified and outlined. These three classes include a course designed to…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Acculturation, International Education, Undergraduate Students
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Williams, Victoria C. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2006
This paper describes a pedagogical technique employed for an interdisciplinary course on Cold War America. Students had to "become" a fictional person and discuss how political and social changes during the Cold War era would have impacted that person. By doing a semester-long project that required primary source research, this…
Descriptors: United States History, Conflict, Active Learning, Primary Sources