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Mohammad Awad AlAfnan; Samira Dishari – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Recent studies claimed that the absence of a paradigm is a challenge to developing education for sustainable development and soft skills competencies. This integrative study examines stimulating these transferable and transversal competencies through constructivist approaches to teaching from the cognitive, social, radical, and critical…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Soft Skills, Competence, Constructivism (Learning)
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Østergaard, Edvin – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
The question of how to foster rooting in science education points towards a double challenge; efforts to "prevent" (further) uprooting and efforts to "promote" rooting/re-rooting. Wolff-Michael Roth's paper discusses the uprooting/rooting pair of concepts, students' feeling of alienation and loss of fundamental sense of the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Phenomenology, Scientific Concepts, Models
Esslin, Patricia E. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Recognition that adverse events are a significant cause for morbidity and mortality has led to a rise in global efforts to improve patient safety. Adaptations are needed in healthcare institutions and at the educational preparatory level for all healthcare providers. One change surrounds the significance of patient-centered care, an important…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Rating Scales, Measures (Individuals), Health Services
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Potvin, Bernie L. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2012
In this paper I address one question asked by teachers who teach online--"How can I build community among my learners in my class?" This paper provides an answer; in fact, it provides ten possible answers, in the form of ten models for teachers to use to build community in on-line courses. Each model has been tried and tested over ten…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Models
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Witfelt, Claus – Educational Media International, 2000
Discusses the use of educational media in compulsory schooling in Europe and focuses on teacher's needs for new competencies in using educational multimedia. Topics include constructivism, situated learning and multiple intelligence; literacy, multimedia competence and the Fiks model (pedagogic/principles of learning, didactics/organization, ICT…
Descriptors: Competence, Compulsory Education, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Media
Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013). The e-Learning 2013 conference aims to…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory
Finke, Wolfgang F. – 2000
This book examines lifelong learning in the Information Age and the role of higher education (HE) in providing the educational services needed by lifelong learners. The following are among the topics discussed in the book's eight chapters: (1) changes in HE (repercussions of globalization in the educational sector; competition in higher learning;…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Competence