This project aimed to examine the effects of a novel training program using interprofessional, multicultural learning activities to facilitate learning cultural competence with humility (CCH). Problem: Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) academic programs have consistently satisfied curricular standards for aspects of cultural competence, but the…

Some researchers have questioned the use of dropout metrics to assess the quality of MOOCs. The main reason for this doubt is that participants register for online courses with different intentions. Therefore, it is proposed to use a learner-centred approach and to study the learner intention-fulfilment. Researchers studied the effect of…

Vertical integration and more generally, corporate-level strategy, are rather difficult for students to grasp, being such abstract concepts. This exercise provides a way for participants to experience issues leading to market failure (and vertical integration) by engaging them as buyers and sellers of a component for very unique car--a limousine…

Courses: Undergraduate courses in environmental communication, with crisis communication or public relations variations. Objectives: After completing this unit activity, students will have a better understanding of how communication contributes to the complexity and interconnections of environmental challenges by exploring crisis communication…

For the communication theory course to be successful, instructors must tap into their students' lives and create a sense of how communication theory is not only relevant to their needs, interests, or goals, but also practical when applied to their social, personal, and organizational relationships. One way in which instructors can create a sense…

Course: Organizational Communication, Business/Professional Communication. Objectives: This activity is designed to help students respond to their peers' challenges in a more compassionate and helpful way. At the end of the activity, students will be able to identify appropriate displays of compassion at work.

The literature on teaching centers and faculty development increasingly recognizes teaching centers are well-positioned to support institutional effectiveness activities. There is critical importance in collaborating with educators to establish topics of engagement, positioning, and partnership including the importance of stakeholder buy-in, which…

This study aims to describe the abstraction of epistemic action, which includes recognition, building-with and construction in junior high school students with low spatial ability in constructing cube nets. The research method used in this study is an exploratory qualitative method with the primary data in the form of interviews with two junior…

How might social educators encourage civic reasoning and genuine dialogue across different perspectives? Disagreements about policy and appropriate action are part and parcel of democratic societies, and yet identifying and working through the roots of those disagreements are tricky skills for students (or anyone, for that matter). In this piece,…

Tasks in accounting textbooks play a vital role when it comes to learning processes. However, hardly any empirical evidence on the quality of accounting tasks exists regarding accounting-relevant characteristics. This is why a new category system containing accounting-relevant aspects was developed to analyze a total of 3,361 tasks from 14…

Effective instruction brings together students' prior knowledge, life experiences, interests, passions, and aspirations to help form lasting learning events. Relevancy, interest, choice, and engagement (RICE) are all necessary ingredients for learning activities that stick in the minds of students and lead to transfer of skills and knowledge from…

Purpose: Sexual health is insufficiently addressed in health care and higher education, which can lead to lower quality of life and negative health outcomes. To improve the situation, it is necessary to address both the needs of patients and professionals and collaboratively engage in finding sustainable solutions. The purpose of this paper is to…

The aim of this research was to provide preschool children with context-based science and nature activities and basic process skills. The research was carried out with 11 children aged 48-60 months in the second term of the 2019-2020 academic years. The research was designed according to action research, one of the qualitative research designs. In…

Do undergraduate students know and use "distributed practice," the strategy of spacing apart learning opportunities over time, and "interleaved practice," the strategy of alternating between topics during learning? What beliefs do students hold about how learning should be scheduled, and how are common learning activities--such…

Despite extensive research and applications of sight-reading instruction in Western countries, little is known about how sight-reading is perceived and taught in China. This paper bridges this gap by exploring the perceptions and teaching strategies of nine lecturers from six Chinese universities. Classroom observations, semi-structured…