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Spillan, John E.; Kara, Ali – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2022
This study explores B-school students' perceptions of subject areas in international business/marketing as well as their preferred learning methods. We compared the responses of students from Peru, Guatemala, Mexico, and China. We found the students from the three Latin American countries mostly shared common perceptions of international marketing…
Descriptors: Marketing, International Trade, Business Administration Education, Student Attitudes
Gamino-Carranza, Arturo; Acosta-González, Mara Grassiel – Online Submission, 2016
"National Institute of Technology of Mexico" (in Spanish: "Tecnológico Nacional de México") as a decentralized body of the Mexico Ministry of Public Education, which has 266 affiliated institutes throughout the country and serves an enrollment of 556,270 students, seeks to offer top quality education geared towards the needs of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Technical Education, Curriculum Development, Course Descriptions
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Giron, Graciela; De-La-Luz-Arellano, Ivan; Ayon-Bañuelos, Antonio – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
Educational reform implies questions of social production and of state regulation that are the key words in educational reform, education and educational policies. These reforms are always on the political agenda of countries and involve international organisms, since education is a vehicle of development for social progress. A point of departure…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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Silva-Maceda, Gabriela; Arjona-Villicaña, P. David; Castillo-Barrera, F. Edgar – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2016
Learning to program is a complex task, and the impact of different pedagogical approaches to teach this skill has been hard to measure. This study examined the performance data of seven cohorts of students (N = 1168) learning programming under three different pedagogical approaches. These pedagogical approaches varied either in the length of the…
Descriptors: Programming, Teaching Methods, Intermode Differences, Cohort Analysis
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Ojeda, M. M.; Sahai, H. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2003
Addresses the use of a project-based approach for designing a one-year graduate level program in applied statistics. Describes the pedagogical approach, academic setting, and learning activities in a multidisciplinary context. Comments on the implementation of such a program based on the results from five successive graduating classes at the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Ryan, Phyllis M. – Foreign Language Annals, 1996
Studies involving teachers of both Spanish and English as a foreign language reveal that metaphors provide teachers with a useful image to represent their views and the elusiveness of cultural concepts. It is suggested that teachers become ethnographers investigating their own beliefs as well as those of others while developing sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: Cultural Images, Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Greybeck, Barbara; Gomez, Margarita Orozco; Mendoza, Sandra Olarte – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2004
In 1997, the ITESM in Monterrey Mexico initiated a system-wide programme of curriculum reform, bringing about three major changes: (1) a focus on the student in the teaching-learning process; (2) the incorporation of abilities, attitudes and values as an integral part of course content; and (3) the use of a technological platform for every course.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Student Attitudes, Course Content, Measures (Individuals)
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Moeller, Adeiline J., Ed.; Theiler, Janine, Ed.; Betta, Silvia, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2008
The 2008 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, a joint conference with the Michigan World Language Association, focused on learning about the diverse backgrounds and needs of today's students and discovering new ways to help them succeed in reaching the goal of language proficiency. A wide variety of workshops and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, French
Stryker, Stephen B., Ed.; Leaver, Betty Lou, Ed. – 1997
A collection of essays contains articles on content-based foreign language courses at three levels (beginning, intermediate, advanced) and on foreign languages across the curriculum, including: "Content-Based Instruction: From Theory to Practice" (Stephen B. Stryker, Betty Lou Leaver); "Content-Based Instruction in a Basic Russian…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Arabic, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction