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Bajada, Christopher; Kandlbinder, Peter; Trayler, Rowan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Systematic changes to higher education curriculum typically occur within the extended timeframes of formal curriculum review processes. Programmes need to be reviewed periodically for internal and external accountability or to determine whether the curriculum has lost its coherence due to the accumulative effect of continual small-scale changes.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods
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Sandfort, Jodi; Gerdes, Kevin – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
Current world events demand public affairs leadership training that generates among professionals a sense of capability, agency, and responsibility to engage in complex public problems. In this paper, we describe a unique course operated in the US focused on achieving these learning outcomes. It uses an unconventional schedule and course design…
Descriptors: Public Affairs Education, Leadership Training, Courses, Computer Uses in Education
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Kasza, Paul; Slater, Timothy F. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
Specialized secondary schools in the United States focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) are becoming commonplace in the United States. Such schools are generally referred to by U.S. teachers as Academies. In a purposeful effort to provide a resource to educators building new STEM Academies, this study provides both a…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Student Educational Objectives, Secondary Schools, High School Students
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Sack, Carl M.; Roth, Robert E. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017
Recent shifts in web map technology away from proprietary software and toward development on the Open Web Platform have increased the number and complexity of technical skills needed to do cartography on the Web. Web-based cartography curricula likewise must be adapted to prepare geography, cartography, and GIS students with the skills needed to…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Open Source Technology, Internet, Geography
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Pilz, Matthias; Canning, Roy – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
The issue of modularising vocational education and training (VET) systems has been the subject of heated debate in many European countries. In particular, in Scotland the use of modules within the curriculum has been seen as either restrictive or liberating depending upon the theoretical stance taken. At a more pragmatic level modularisation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Learning Modules, Educational Practices
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Houke, Charlotte – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2017
This paper explores the purpose of designing and using projects with real world application in a M.B.A. managerial accounting class. Included is a discussion of how and why the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Project has been used in classes to link theory with practice by providing real world application of the BSC framework. M.B.A. students represent a…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Active Learning, Student Projects
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McCann, Michael – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
The typical approach to student-centred learning in Economics has focused on innovation within the classroom, with little thought given to how this complements teaching and learning and, crucially, assessment. This paper reflects on the implementation of constructive alignment in a final year managerial economics course. It demonstrates how it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alignment (Education), Economics Education, Student Centered Learning
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Guerrero, Michael D.; Guerrero, Maria Consuelo – Bilingual Research Journal, 2017
In this descriptive study the efforts of a faculty to prepare a cohort of pre-service bilingual education teachers to pass a newly adopted state certification test of academic Spanish are presented. The faculty's efforts were aimed at offsetting a low pass rate on this test, but unfortunately efforts fell short. To unpack this outcome, the authors…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Spanish, Preservice Teachers, Bilingual Education
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Olejarczuk, Edyta – Teaching English with Technology, 2014
Using new technologies in the academic field has become more and more visible in Poland in the recent years. In the past, digital learning resources were used as supplementary materials helping to support face-to-face instruction. Nowadays, we have the opportunity not only to apply "traditional" methods but also to use more sophisticated…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Curriculum Design
Clementi, Donna – Learning Languages, 2014
This article describes a graphic, designed by Clementi and Terrill, the authors of "Keys to Planning for Learning" (2013), visually representing the components that contribute to meaningful and purposeful practice in learning a world language, practice that leads to greater proficiency. The entire graphic is centered around the letter…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Visual Aids
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Trudeau, Dan; Kruse, Tina P. – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2014
This article examines two case studies that describe different ways of working with community partners to create civic engagement experiences in undergraduate education. Analysis of the case studies yields guidance about practical decisions involved in planning, designing, and executing pedagogy that uses engagement to generate what Fink calls…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citizen Participation, Learning Experience, School Community Relationship
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Duff, Christine K.; Flattery, J. J., Jr. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
A teaching methodology and curriculum was designed to develop and increase positive self-awareness in students diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Joint attention (JA) strategies were first utilized to directly teach students about reflected mirror images, and then subsequently, to indirectly teach students about their reflected image.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Self Concept, Developmental Stages, Autism
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Whitford, Betty Lou; Villaume, Susan Kidd – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
In this article, we explore how teacher preparation programs have developed from the mid-1800s to present day, emphasizing changes in the clinical component. Drawing from the history of teacher education from the normal schools of the 19th century to present-day interest in clinically based preparation, we first review the migration of teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational History, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Oates, Tim – School Science Review, 2014
This article explores the rationale for the 2011-2013 review of the National Curriculum in England, a rationale informed by the work of an Expert Panel chaired by the author. The focus is on the fundamental principles that determine the nature and content of the curriculum. The approach adopted by the review is contrasted with that adopted when…
Descriptors: Science Education, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Leonard, Alison E.; Hellenbrand, Leah; McShane-Hellenbrand, Karen – Journal of Dance Education, 2014
This article presents the Mentorship, Integrated Curriculum, Collaboration, and Scholarship (MICCS) framework as an applicable model for transformative, creative, and curriculum-based K-12 dance education and arts integration. Developed and practiced by the authors--an artist/educator, a classroom teacher, and an arts education scholar and former…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Mentors
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