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Hess, Amanda Nichols – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2013
Oakland University (OU) Libraries undertook an assessment of how to leverage its resources to make online tutorials more focused on users' needs. A multi-part assessment process reconsidered Web tutorials offerings through the lenses of faculty and staff feedback, literature review, and an analysis of other universities' online tutorial offerings.…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, User Needs (Information)
Samples, Jerry W.; Copeland, Susan E. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013
The literature on teaching is replete with definitions and examples of good teaching. They include the traits and characteristics of the best instructors, teachers, and professors. In recent years, the literature included the impact of teaching on the student learner, thus coming full circle, from teacher to learner. The literature provides good…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Best Practices, Instructional Development
Fain, Nusa; Kline, Miro – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
Changes in the business environment, responses of companies to these changes and the available information and communication technologies (ICT) pose a number of challenges to present and future product developers, as well as to educational institutions. An appropriate response to these challenges is to create a solid basis for strategies to combat…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
Stewart, Shelley; Cobb-Roberts, Deirdre; Shircliffe, Barbara J. – Journal of Educators Online, 2013
Transforming a face to face course to a computer mediated format in social foundations (interdisciplinary field in education), while maintaining pedagogical integrity, involves strategic collaboration between instructional technologists and content area experts. This type of planned partnership requires open dialogue and a mutual respect for prior…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Delivery Systems, Interdisciplinary Approach, Instructional Design
Turner, Arthur; Heneberry, Pamela – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2013
Involvement in a number of action-learning programmes and associated development opportunities has led the Professional Development Centre Limited to question the relevance of a strict adherence to the "rules" of action learning as described by Reg Revans. A deliberate focus of one such programme to a financial services organisation…
Descriptors: Financial Services, Experiential Learning, Organizational Development, Instructional Effectiveness
Ausherman, Judith A.; Ubbes, Valerie A.; Kowalski, Jacqueline – Health Educator, 2014
This strategy is to provide health education teacher candidates with critical and creative thinking tools to explore gardening as a vehicle to integrate health education content with other subjects. According to the Competency-Based Framework for the Health Education Specialist (2010a), entry-level health educators should have skills and…
Descriptors: Health Education, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Gardening
Clerkin, Kris; Simon, Yvonne – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
This article presents a new model of education that works with employers to help their employees gain the skills and credentials needed for promotions and career mobility. Southern New Hampshire University's College for America, a competency-based education model for working adults, increases their access to, and the convenience of higher…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Student Centered Curriculum, Models, Student Projects
Banks, Tachelle; Jackson, Debbie; Harper, Brian – Higher Education Studies, 2014
This article supports the notion of high quality clinical teacher preparation models and lays out an argument for investing in professional education that is organized around more coherent systems for cultivating clinical practice. This article outlines the creation and implementation of a clinically-based teacher preparation program. Project…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Professional Education
Sugar, William – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This study describes the development of three case studies that included a combination of multimedia production and instructional design skills within a particular setting. These case studies incorporated real-life incidents from 47 professional instructional designers. These instructional designers described a total of 146 activities involving…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Development, Multimedia Materials, Multimedia Instruction
Molyneux, Paul; Tyler, Debra – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
Case studies of successful place-based education that involve international partnerships are rare. This article reports on an inclusive educational collaboration between pre-service teachers at an Australian university and primary and secondary school-aged children in a slum area of Delhi, India. Encouraged to undertake teaching that affirmed and…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Preservice Teachers, Case Studies, International Studies
McDonald, James E.; Robinson, Rosanna L. – Bioscience Education, 2014
The transition to undergraduate study is often a challenging step for students as they progress from relatively smaller school/college classes with a high degree of contact time with familiar staff to a university department where one-on-one interaction with staff members is significantly reduced. The first year tutorials module offers one of the…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Learning Modules, Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen
Swanson, Chad C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Early literacy and reading skills are both important predictors of an individual's future success in school and employment settings (Moats, 1999). Moreover, poor reading performance in elementary school has been associated with future conduct problems and juvenile delinquency by age fifteen (Williams, 1994). Research supports the notion that…
Descriptors: Phonics, Curriculum Based Assessment, Reliability, Validity
Bensley, D. Alan; Murtagh, Michael P. – Teaching of Psychology, 2012
Assessment of student learning outcomes can be a powerful tool for improvement of instruction when a scientific approach is taken; unfortunately, many educators do not take full advantage of this approach. This article examines benefits of taking a scientific approach to critical thinking assessment and proposes guidelines for planning,…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Critical Thinking, Best Practices, Educational Practices
Whitby, Sarah Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
To help teachers improve their efficiency and effectiveness, this dissertation study uses regression analysis to assess two middle Georgia counties' CRCT and Math 1 EOCT data in order to determine the usability of the CRCT to enhance instruction in Math 1. Data were collected from the 2009 and 2010 CRCT administrations and the 2010 and 2011 EOCT…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Mathematics Tests, Test Use, Criterion Referenced Tests
Rathbun, Gail; Turner, Nancy – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
Academic developers are often positioned as intermediaries who wield value-neutral tools--languages, models, and techniques--in service of decidedly non-neutral institutional goals. We challenge the value of perpetuating the ideal of the neutrality of academic developers and their tools by examining the ways in which our resources and approaches…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Values, Ethics, Misconceptions