A teacher education professor and former secondary school instructor discusses using punk pedagogy and content in the English classroom to promote experimentation, interdisciplinarity, participation in community, and process-focused work.

In the urgent move from conventional classrooms to online learning made necessary by the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers in higher education made hard choices about pedagogy, student support, ethical responsibilities to professions and disciplines, and a host of other considerations. Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are fundamental and explicit…

In 2021, I completed an instructional redesign of an online section of a general education (GE) course titled "Criticizing Television." The redesign focused on utilizing Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TiLT) to create more meaningful engagement and deeper learning opportunities through discussion boards. Using the action research…

Understanding homeostasis is foundational to biology; yet students often hold persistent misconceptions about its mechanisms and complexity. To address these challenges, we developed a collaborative, card-based board game in which players act as components of the endocrine and physiological systems to help a character named Bill enact homeostasis…

This paper extends the work of Chan (2023) by investigating the consistency of student attendance engagement patterns between online and offline lectures, not through direct attendance rate comparison, but through the analysis of student attendance rankings. While the previous study found no significant correlation between direct attendance rates,…

This article shares details behind building organizational capacity to establish program referrals for statewide recruitment of community adults into Cooperative Extension's online health programs. This study explores the role of intentional recruitment strategies (active and passive) to increase participant program enrollment into health…

The educational sector emerged as one of the most profoundly disrupted domains during the COVID-19 pandemic, with higher education institutions particularly impacted. In Ghana, pre-pandemic education was predominantly characterised by in-person instruction, where teacher-led engagement formed the foundation of classroom learning. Despite…

Student engagement is a fundamental issue for educators and researchers. In some cases, even with advanced technological facilities or trained instructors, it can be difficult to encourage students to participate synchronously. The multidimensional nature of engagement may provide a rationale for this phenomenon. While definitions and…

Although social workers are increasingly likely to encounter suicidal clients in their practice, many are under-prepared to address the issue of suicide, and significant deficiencies in suicide education exist in social work graduate programs. This study examined the acceptability and effectiveness of a brief yet comprehensive online module…

Academic advising is a time-consuming activity that takes a considerable effort in guiding students to improve student performance. Traditional advising systems depend greatly on the effort of the advisor to find the best selection of courses to improve student performance in the next semester. There is a need to know the associations and patterns…

Colleges and universities continue to expand their curricula to include cybersecurity as an explicit course of study in political science. But what is taught in a course on cybersecurity? Are syllabi deep dives into technology, broad romps through contemporary policy debates, or do they reflect a more varied disposition? Studying the syllabi of an…

Experiential learning pedagogies, including service-learning, can be used in the business classroom to connect theory and practice. An increasing body of literature demonstrates a trend toward service-learning integration into the business classroom and shows that service projects can potentially support learning outcomes for business students.…

The general purpose of this study is to find out the views of academic staff working in schools of Physical Education and Sports or faculties of Sports Sciences regarding the physical education and sports teaching undergraduate program. While finding out the views of academic staff, the physical education and sports teaching undergraduate program…

Universities with faculties of education run programmes to produce competent, trained, qualified and professional teachers for the quality education in the country. Taking this case into consideration, this study examined the curriculum of teacher education of four universities from Nepal and India in relation to objectives, contents,…

University programs with waterfowl teaching, research, and outreach in the United States and Canada have decreased from approximately 55 to 33 programs ([approximately]40%). A reduction in these programs may lead to a loss in professional capacity of waterfowl and wetlands specialists working for science and conservation of these resources. Three…