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Wolfenden, Freda; Adinolfi, Lina – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
This study examines the practice of adaptation and translation (localisation) of Open Educational Resources (OER). It employs a sociocultural perspective to focus on the experiences of practitioners (localisers) who undertook the localisation of a suite of 125 OER created as part of a teacher professional development programme in India. This…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Faculty Development, Curriculum Development, Translation
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Burns, Matthew K.; Young, Helen – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Skills is a web-based assessment system published by Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA). The test publishers purport that MAP Skills provides information about essential K-8 building blocks in Language Usage, Mathematics, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary to quickly assess student progress toward…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Language Skills, Mathematics Skills, Reading Comprehension
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Riley, Jacqueline; Isbell, Laura – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine how faculty in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at one university perceived the usefulness of a website which contained ELL (English language learner) teaching resources (e.g., videos, lesson plans, handouts) created by graduate students. The website was created as part of a graduate level…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Graduate Students, Second Language Learning
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Dooris, Mark; Farrier, Alan; Powell, Susan; Holt, Maxine – Health Education, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on an evaluation of the UK Healthy Universities Network (UKHUN), which explored engagement of network members; identified what members value about the network; examined facilitators and barriers to engagement; and informed the network's future development. Design/methodology/approach: The study was a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Systems Approach, Networks, Universities
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Vicens, Quentin; Coumoul, Xavier; Souciet, Jean-Luc – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2019
In order to help promote instructional change at French-speaking universities in Europe, we initiated a series of 1-day events centered on learning innovations. Since 2015, these events have been taking place every 6 months at the Université Paris Descartes, with the moral support of three learned scientific societies, the French Academy of…
Descriptors: French, College Faculty, Educational Research, Foreign Countries
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Mills, Jack I.; Thomas, Aaron; Galindo, Ed; Hartline, Beverly Karplus; Dhingra, Amit – New Directions for Higher Education, 2019
There is a pressing need for American Indian and Native Alaskan professionals who have the preparation necessary to address the quality of life and natural resource issues in Native communities. We assert that universities should adopt proactive strategies that build pathways for Natives to obtain advanced degrees.
Descriptors: STEM Education, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Professional Personnel
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Tomé, Eduardo; Tracz-Krupa, Katarzyna – European Journal of Training and Development, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to define the impact of the investment in training in education by the European Social Fund (ESF) in four Eastern countries, namely, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Hungary. Those countries have some political, cultural, social and economic similarities and share some common ground in the human resource…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Human Resources, Labor Force Development
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Johnson, Matthew; Danvers, Emily; Hinton-Smith, Tamsin; Atkinson, Kate; Bowden, Gareth; Foster, John; Garner, Kristina; Garrud, Paul; Greaves, Sarah; Harris, Patricia; Hejmadi, Momna; Hill, David; Hughes, Gwen; Jackson, Louise; O'Sullivan, Angela; ÓTuama, Séamus; Perez Brown, Pilar; Philipson, Pete; Ravenscroft, Simon; Rhys, Mirain; Ritchie, Tom; Talbot, Jon; Walker, David; Watson, Jon; Williams, Myfanwy; Williams, Sharon – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019
How should academic staff engage in outreach with communities outside of the university? The need of academics to answer this question has intensified in the UK given the changing priorities of academic job roles, shaped by increasing institutional concern for widening participation, graduate employability and research impact in an era of…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, College Faculty, School Community Relationship, Barriers
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McNaughtan, Jon; García, Hugo A.; Garza, Tiberio; Harwood, Yvonne R. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2019
The rising cost of higher education has driven researchers and practitioners alike to identify areas of waste and search for practices associated with increasing efficiency. One area commonly targeted is human resources, where the dominant narrative focuses on the role of downsizing as a way to decrease cost. In contrast to workforce reduction,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, College Faculty, Human Resources, College Administration
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Akuma, Fru Vitalis; Callaghan, Ronel – Research in Science Education, 2019
Inquiry-based science education has been incorporated in science curricula internationally. In this regard, however, many teachers encounter challenges. The challenges have been characterised into those linked to the personal characteristics of these teachers (intrinsic challenges) and others associated with contextual factors (extrinsic…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Barriers
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Trivedi, Shikha; Mthombeni, Fungai M. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2019
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a theoretical paradigm that advocates educational success for the highest proportion of students possible. Many countries have embraced this philosophy as a way of providing an environment that addresses learner's diverse needs. Historically, learners with certain special needs have been denied full…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Academic Achievement
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Hilliam, Rachel; Goldrei, Derek – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2019
There is an increasing focus within Higher Education on the wider student experience. Student engagement and a well-developed community are associated with greater levels of retention, student satisfaction and success. Whilst creating opportunities for students to engage with each other and staff may be easier in a face-to-face environment, the…
Descriptors: College Students, College Mathematics, Communities of Practice, Computer Mediated Communication
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Holloway, Jessica; Keddie, Amanda – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2019
Using the stories of two autonomous public schools in Australia, this paper demonstrates how commercialisation can simultaneously position schools as both consumer and for-profit producer. Drawing on Foucault's articulation of discourse as that which constitutes and makes available what is possible to be said, done and imagined, the paper…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Commercialization, Public Schools, Educational Resources
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Joo, Baek-Kyoo; Nam, Kyoung-ah – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the predictors of career satisfaction for public service employees in South Korea, using data drawn from 303 civil servants from one metropolitan government and two district governments. The effects of contextual (i.e., transformational leadership), personal (i.e., learning goal orientation), and intrinsic…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Goal Orientation, Predictor Variables, Government Employees
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Borgerding, Lisa A.; Kaya, F. – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
The U.S. Next Generation Science Standards treat biological adaptation as a disciplinary core idea, but various science educators recommend its introduction at different ages. The concept of biological adaptation elicits children's reasoning about organisms, their environments, and the relationship between organisms and their environments. The…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Summer Programs, Day Camp Programs, Science Education
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