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Carmichael, Patrick – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2012
The idea of transformative and troublesome "threshold concepts" has been popular and influential in higher education. This article reports how teachers with different disciplinary affiliations responded to the "concept of thresholds" in the course of a cross-disciplinary research project. It describes how the idea was territorialised and enacted…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Technology
Bizzocchi, Jim; Tanenbaum, Joshua – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2012
Digital games have matured substantially as a narrative medium in the last decade. However, there is still much work to be done to more fully understand the poetics of story-based-games. Game narrative remains an important issue with significant cultural, economic and scholarly implications. In this article, we undertake a critical analysis of the…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Case Studies, Computer Games, Video Games
Scanlan, Martin; Zisselsberger, Margarita – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2015
Culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students comprise the most rapidly expanding, and among the most educationally marginalized, group in the United States. CLD students' opportunities to learn are often diminished through service delivery models that are deficit-oriented, viewing linguistic diversity as a challenge to overcome, not a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Partnerships in Education, Student Diversity, Minority Group Students
Sager, James L.; Chen, Fang – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This paper presents results from using an asynchronous Web-based discussion forum coupled with an integrated student peer rating system as one component of an introductory Information Systems (IS) course with high enrollment (e.g. a class with over 100 students). There are two major issues with the typical introductory IS course: it covers too…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Feedback (Response), Discussion Groups
Guay, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine how teacher talk influenced the way issues of race, culture, and disability were addressed in literature discussion groups. Discussions of one teacher with two groups of students, of varying reading levels, were studied. The research questions were: 1) How does the teacher's perspective on the students…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Literature Appreciation, Literary Criticism, Social Problems
Bennett, Jeffrey V.; McKee, Tiffany; Martin, Staci – Journal of School Leadership, 2014
This case study describes collaboration between business executives and superintendents to influence local/regional K-12 educational change. Specifically, we examine participant like-mindedness about the ethics and appropriate focus of K-12 intermediary collaboration, the extent of democratic functioning, and key individuals to involve. Data…
Descriptors: Superintendents, School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Case Studies
Steptoe, Leslye Carynn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The experiences of black women offer a unique perspective on how life is lived at the juncture of race and gender in the United States. This case study of an online community for black women centers on the site's potentiality as an online learning community as well as a uniquely black woman's space. It also explores interrelated aspects of…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Informal Education, Discussion Groups
Filippakou, Ourania – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2011
The paper suggests that the idea of quality in higher education is ideologically constructed and conducted. In a spiral of mutual reinforcements, quality regimes naturalise experience, while the theories of that practice legitimise the naturalness of "quality". I shall suggest that quality regimes provide too narrow readings of higher education.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Ideology, Educational Practices
Feinberg, Walter – Review of Research in Education, 2012
In everyday language, whether a school is described as "public" or not is determined by the way it is funded and by who is allowed to attend it. Ideally however, a public school should also be defined and evaluated by its unique goal--to renew a public by providing the young with the skills, dispositions, and perspectives required to…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Schools, Role of Education, Citizenship Education
Eby, Gulsun; Yuzer, T. Volkan – IGI Global, 2013
Developments in online learning and its design are areas that continue to grow in order to enhance students' learning environments and experiences. However, in the implementation of new technologies, the importance of properly and fairly overseeing these courses is often undervalued. "Project Management Approaches for Online Learning Design"…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Internet
McKinney, Kinsey – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2010
This article presents the author's response to "How Do We See What We See? Pedagogical Lacunae and Their Pitfalls in the Classroom" by Jennifer A. Rich. McKinney describes how she tweaked a rhetorical analysis assignment to have it produce more summary, description and response. She stresses that teachers can create a more rhetorically viable…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, College Faculty, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Hyland, Ken – Written Communication, 2010
Recent research has emphasized the close connections between writing and the construction of an author's identity. While academic contexts privilege certain ways of making meanings and so restrict what resources participants can bring from their past experiences, we can also see these writing conventions as a repertoire of options that allow…
Descriptors: Authors, Self Concept, Academic Discourse, Identification
Koutropoulos, Apostolos; Gallagher, Michael Sean; Abajian, Sean C.; de Waard, Inge; Hogue, Rebecca Joanne; Keskin, Nilgun Ozdamar; Rodriguez, C. Osvaldo – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2012
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have been growing in popularity with educational researchers, instructors, and learners in online environments. Online discussions are as important in MOOCs as in other online courses. Online discussions that occur in MOOCs are influenced by additional factors resulting from their volatile and voluntary…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Education, Electronic Learning, Discussion Groups
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2015
This virtual conference was the eleventh in a series of moderator-driven discussions introduced by UNESCO-UNEVOC in 2011. Conducted on the UNEVOC e-Forum--a global online community of over 4,000 members--and guided by an expert, these discussions provide a platform for sharing of experiences, expertise and feedback and wish to inspire people to…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Delivery Systems, Vocational Education, Educational Quality
Rivers, Nathaniel A.; Weber, Ryan P. – College Composition and Communication, 2011
Public rhetoric pedagogy can benefit from an ecological perspective that sees change as advocated not through a single document but through multiple mundane and monumental texts. This article summarizes various approaches to rhetorical ecology, offers an ecological read of the Montgomery bus boycotts, and concludes with pedagogical insights on a…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Rhetoric, Audiences, Activism