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Morris, R. C.; Parker, Loran Carleton; Nelson, David; Pistilli, Matthew D.; Hagen, Adam; Levesque-Bristol, Chantal; Weaver, Gabriela – Educational Assessment, 2014
This study examines the development and implementation of a survey-based instrument assessing the effectiveness of a course redesign initiative focused on student centeredness at a large midwestern university in the United States. Given the scope of the reform initiative under investigation in this study, researchers developed an instrument called…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Program Effectiveness
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Sarathchandra, Dilshani; Maredia, Karim M. – Journal of Extension, 2014
Scholars have recognized a need for educational programs that prepare scientists, Extension practitioners, and other stakeholders to communicate science effectively. Such programs have the potential to increase public awareness and aid policy development. Having recognized this need, faculty at Michigan State University (MSU) developed an…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Extension Education, Scientific and Technical Information, Communication Skills
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Pratt, Jean A.; Keys, Anthony; Wirkus, Tyrrell – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to encourage Information Systems (IS) faculty to intentionally revise their curriculum to address (and assess) higher-order learning skills which are demanded by industry and society and are representative of a liberal arts based education. We substantiated the need for this proposed curriculum revision by first…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Graduates, Liberal Arts, Business Administration Education
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Rodriguez, Brenda Cecilia Padilla; Armellini, Alejandro – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2014
Finding effective ways of designing online courses is a priority for corporate organizations. The interaction equivalency theorem states that meaningful learning can be achieved as long as courses are designed with at least a high level of one of three types of interactions (learner-content, learner-teacher or learner-learner). This study aimed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Corporate Education, Learning Theories
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Mohamud, Abdul; Whitburn, Robin – Teaching History, 2014
It has become a truism that Britain is a multi-cultural society yet, as Mohamud and Whitburn argue, there is still a great deal of thinking to be done by history teachers in accounting for this diversity in the classroom. Mohamud and Whitburn consider approaches to both curriculum and pedagogy when it comes to teaching about the Somali community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Ethnic Diversity, Multicultural Education
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Saraswat, Satya Prakash; Anderson, Dennis M.; Chircu, Alina M. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2014
This paper describes the development and evaluation of a graduate level Business Process Management (BPM) course with process modeling and simulation as its integral component, being offered at an accredited business university in the Northeastern U.S. Our approach is similar to that found in other Information Systems (IS) education papers, and…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Teaching Methods, Graduate Students, Statistical Significance
Bor, Stephanie E. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2014
In response to the growing demand for digitally competent employees in the news media industry, journalism schools are cautiously integrating social media reporting into their curriculum. This study explores techniques for teaching news reporting on social media platforms focusing on challenges and opportunities for learning engagement that…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Journalism, Teaching Methods, News Reporting
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Edström, Kristina; Kolmos, Anette – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
This paper compares two models for reforming engineering education, problem/project-based learning (PBL), and conceive-design-implement-operate (CDIO), identifying and explaining similarities and differences. PBL and CDIO are defined and contrasted in terms of their history, community, definitions, curriculum design, relation to disciplines,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Models
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Rogers, Rebecca; Schaenen, Inda – Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
This article is a critical, integrative literature review of scholarship in literacy studies from 2004 to 2012 that draws on critical discourse analysis (CDA). We discuss key issues, trends, and criticisms in the field. Our methodology was carried out in three stages. First, we searched educational databases to locate literacy-focused CDA…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Literature Reviews, Trend Analysis, Literacy
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Glaser, Rainer E. – Journal of Learning Design, 2014
A writing-intensive, upper-level undergraduate course which integrates content, context, collaboration, and communication in a unique fashion, is described. The topic of the seminar is "Scientific Writing in Chemistry" and an assignment-based curriculum was developed to instruct students on best practices in all aspects of science…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Writing Instruction, Best Practices, Undergraduate Study
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Dixon, L. Quentin; Wu, Shuang – Language Teaching, 2014
Because certain home language and literacy practices have been found to be beneficial to monolingual children's literacy development, we examine immigrant children's home language and literacy practices in different countries. Presenting findings from 92 post-2000 articles, we examine research into these practices, what factors influence…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Immigrants, Literacy
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Buck, Alison; Parrotta, Kylie – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2014
In this paper, we describe an exercise that challenges hetero-normative and sexist notions of sexuality, allowing students to envision alternative models. Research shows how active learning eases student anxiety over challenging or threatening material. After reading Jessica Fields' "Risky Lessons" and Waskul, Vannini, and Weisen's…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Student Developed Materials
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Axelrod, Ysaaca – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2014
Drawing on the work of Celia Genishi, this article discusses data from an ethnographic case study of young Latina/o children, starting in their four-year-olds classroom in a Head Start Program through their first grade year in a dual-language program in a public school. The children attended a bilingual Head Start program that followed a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Education, Preschool Children
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Papachristos, Nikiforos M.; Vrellis, Ioannis; Natsis, Antonis; Mikropoulos, Tassos A. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
This paper presents empirical results from an exploratory study conducted in an authentic educational situation with preservice education students enrolled in an undergraduate course, which was partially taught in Second Life. The study investigated the effect of environment design on presence, learning outcomes and the overall experience of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Study, Environmental Influences, Design
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Katz, Brian P.; Thoren, Elizabeth – PRIMUS, 2014
We have used wiki technology to support large-scale, collaborative writing projects in which the students build reference texts (called WikiTextbooks). The goal of this paper is to prepare readers to adapt this idea for their own courses. We give examples of the implementation of WikiTextbooks in a variety of courses, including lecture and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Mathematics, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing
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