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Hsu, Chia-ling – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This study adopts the Problem Based Learning (PBL) for pre-service teachers in teacher education program. The reasons to adopt PBL are the class scale is not a small class, the contents are too many to teach, and the technologies are ready to be used in classroom. This study used an intermediary, movie, for scenario to student to define the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Instructional Design, Preservice Teachers
Oyerinde, Bolanle Adenike – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Low involvement of African American parents in middle school education is a concern in a school district in the southeastern United States. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relationships between the explanatory variables of parental involvement, socioeconomic status, and level of education, and the achievement of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Parent Participation, Mathematics Achievement, African American Students
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Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Tight, Malcolm, Ed. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2014
Higher education research is a developing field internationally, attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods, and methodologies are being applied. As an expanding multidisciplinary area…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Bicak, Ali; Liu, Michelle; Murphy, Diane – Information Systems Education Journal, 2015
The cybersecurity curriculum has grown dramatically over the past decade: once it was just a couple of courses in a computer science graduate program. Today cybersecurity is introduced at the high school level, incorporated into undergraduate computer science and information systems programs, and has resulted in a variety of cybersecurity-specific…
Descriptors: Information Security, Curriculum Design, Computer Science, Graduate Study
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Burrell, Andrew R.; Cavanagh, Michael; Young, Sherman; Carter, Helen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Curriculum design in higher education environments, namely the consideration of aims, learning outcomes, syllabus, pedagogy and assessment, can often be ad hoc and driven by informal cultural habits. Academics with disciplinary expertise may be resistant to (or ignorant of) pedagogical approaches beyond existing practice. In an environment where…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Change Agents, Course Descriptions, Outcomes of Education
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Okoli, B. E.; Okorie, Ogbonnaya – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This work is a descriptive survey of the adequacy of the material resources required for effective implementation of upper basic education business studies curriculum in Ebonyi State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The entire population of two hundred and forty-one (241) business studies teachers were used for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Education, Secondary Schools, Curriculum Evaluation
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Ragawanti, Debora Tri – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2015
Classroom management is commonly believed to be the key to the success of an instruction. Many student teachers, however, might find it very challenging to handle their classrooms. It is, therefore, necessary to advance their professional practice in the context of a real classroom such as through teaching practicum and reflective practice. This…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rasi, Päivi; Hautakangas, Mikko; Väyrynen, Sai – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
This study addresses the challenges concerning the internationalisation of higher education, with a particular focus on designing new international programmes. It presents a case study of a novel international study programme: the MA in Media Education at the Faculty of Education at the University of Lapland, Finland. The study looks into its…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Culturally Relevant Education, Higher Education
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MacDonald, Lynn Couturier – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2015
This article addresses teaching for skill and knowledge competency in high school based on the National Standards and grade-level outcomes. The outcomes guide teachers away from a curriculum that emphasizes competition through team sports, which appeals to just the highly-skilled and competitive students, toward one that is inclusive of all skill…
Descriptors: High School Students, Physical Activities, Physical Education, National Standards
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Khadimally, Seda – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
Guided by the principles of the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) instructional design (ID) model, this creative instructional product presents a learning/teaching approach that is fundamentally constructivist. For the purposes of designing effective instruction in an academic preparation course, a…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Cooperative Planning, English (Second Language)
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Grover, Shuchi; Pea, Roy; Cooper, Stephen – Computer Science Education, 2015
The focus of this research was to create and test an introductory computer science course for middle school. Titled "Foundations for Advancing Computational Thinking" (FACT), the course aims to prepare and motivate middle school learners for future engagement with algorithmic problem solving. FACT was also piloted as a seven-week course…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Computer Science Education, Blended Learning, Introductory Courses
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Charitaki, Garyfalia; Baralis, Georgios; Polycronopoulou, Stavroula; Lappas, Dionyssios; Soulis, Spyridon-Georgios – Online Submission, 2015
Aims: Through this qualitative approach we intent to investigate the existence of patterns in errors that children with Down's syndrome make while counting. Study Design: The current study can be described as descriptive correlational, while we are also trying to extract data through qualitative analysis. Place and Duration of Study: In the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Down Syndrome, Difficulty Level, Numeracy
Parker, Jenni; Herrington, Jan – Australian Association for Research in Education, 2015
The growth of online learning and the demand for quality education has prompted universities to investigate innovative approaches for providing students with a more interactive, engaging and authentic learning experience. Frameworks such as Garrison, Anderson and Archer?s (2001) community of inquiry (CoI) model have been widely used in the design…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Communities of Practice, Universities, Learner Engagement
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Almeida, Sylvia; Cutter-Mackenzie, Amy – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2011
What is distinctive or indistinctive about environmental education in schools and other formal education settings in India? In essence, what is the "ness" of environmental education in the Indian education system? Our responses to these important questions form the focus of this paper, shedding light on the historical, present and future…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Foreign Countries, Environmental Research
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Jaarsma, Thomas; Maat, Harro; Richards, Paul; Wals, Arjen – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2011
Although the concept of the apprenticeship seems to be universal, its institutional form and status differ around the world. This article discusses informal apprenticeship training as it occurs among car mechanics in the informal industrial complex of the Suame Magazine, Kumasi, Ghana. Using on-site research and theories of social learning and…
Descriptors: Socialization, Apprenticeships, Motor Vehicles, Periodicals
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