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Liyanagunawardena, Tharindu R.; Scalzavara, Sandra; Williams, Shirley A. – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2017
Open badges are a digital representation of skills or accomplishments recorded in a visual symbol that is embedded with verifiable data and evidence. They are created following a defined open standard, so that they can be shared online. Open badges have gained popularity around the world in recent years and have become a standard feature of many…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Information Storage, Evaluation Methods, Electronic Learning
Harley-Permenter, Kisa L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Evidence is documented in research that too many students, particularly low-income and minority students, leave the kindergarten to Grade 12 educational system without the knowledge and the skills necessary for success after high school. The primary goal of this study was to examine in greater depth the factors that influence college readiness.…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Interviews, First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes
Miller, Beverly – ProQuest LLC, 2017
New graduate nurses (NGNs) at bedside are faced with numerous challenges, which prompt them to leave jobs in their first year. The transition from being a student to competent nurse requires a NGN to have the necessary skills and experience. Subsequently, hospitals continue to face shortages of staff because of high turnover and low retention…
Descriptors: Nurses, Labor Turnover, Entry Workers, Hospitals
Armstrong, Shanice Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Steele and Aronson (1995) described stereotypic threat as the experience of personal distress related to the fear and anxiety that one might confirm a negative stereotype about a meaningful identity group. Adolescents enrolled in Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs (DAEP) face stereotype threat consequences in the form of lowered…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Self Concept, Nontraditional Education, Intervention
Brewer, Dominic J.; Shirley, Maurice – Urban Institute, 2017
The federal role in higher education has grown over the past two decades, and now a new administration has the opportunity to strengthen policies that support students and their colleges and universities. To help inform these decisions, the Urban Institute convened a bipartisan group of scholars and policy advisers to write a series of memos…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Innovation, Federal Programs, Educational Change
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Kaul, Manfred; Kless, André; Bonne, Thorsten; Rieke, Almut – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
Almost unnoticed by the e-learning community, the underlying technology of the WWW is undergoing massive technological changes on all levels these days. In this paper we draw the attention to the emerging game changer and discuss the consequences for online learning. In our e-learning project "Work & Study", funded by the German…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Technological Advancement, Internet, Foreign Countries
de Souza Correa, Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A recent challenge for contemporary education has been to efficiently educate the increasingly diverse American population (Holley, 2013). Seeking to resolve the problems related to the education of a diverse student population, colleges and universities across the United States have begun to require students to enroll in diversity courses…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Diversity
Aragon, Stephanie – Education Commission of the States, 2017
This policy report defines and provides a 50-state review of teacher license reciprocity, explores how state-specific licensing requirements impact the teacher labor market, and includes examples of national and state efforts to facilitate reciprocity.
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Geographic Location, Interstate Programs, Labor Market
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Karaferye, Figen – Online Submission, 2017
With the strong effect of globalisation, knowledge-based societies, competitiveness and new technologies upon universities, interest and need in academic management & leadership programs are increasing. More Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are beginning to provide their staff with academic management & leadership programs to ensure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Needs, Expectation
Norton, Susan K. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
For decades, the cohort model has been utilized to bring graduate degrees to working adults who cannot put their family lives and careers on hold to attend a university in the more traditional way. With the growing access to reliable digital tools, some cohorts have taken advantage of the ability to meet online with live-streaming applications…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Blended Learning
Hoban, Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore what priorities should be the focus in K-12 digital learning environments in order to transition to a competency-based education model at scale. The study examined what factors experts in the field identify as most important for this transition and the priority they give to each factor. A…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Educational Environment, Delphi Technique, Elementary Secondary Education
Sanon, David A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Given the potential lifelong implications of exclusionary discipline sanctions on students' educational outcomes (Skiba & Rausch, 2006), it is critical for those who are responsible for student discipline, mainly assistant principals, to reflect on their role as disciplinarians. The purpose of this multiple case study was to examine how…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Elementary Schools, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; González-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Díaz, Josefina; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Gutiérrez-Cardenas, Sandra-Milena; Álvarez, María-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquín; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Morfín, María; Álvarez, Miguel; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
The policy of reorganising schools in pedagogical cycles has been restored little by little in the state schools of the city of Bogota. This reform began in the year 2008 in Codema College, which faced a number of challenges, personal as much as institutional. The reform depended upon the participation and engagement of the educational community…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Practices
Arnold, Christopher; Baker, Tracey – Trentham Books, 2017
This book describes an initiative that has proved effective in keeping more young people from dropping out of education, training or employment. The authors present case studies based on in-depth interviews with participants from five widely divergent European countries--the UK, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Ireland--which illustrate the…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Case Studies, Interviews, Foreign Countries
Holcombe, Rebecca – Vermont Agency of Education, 2017
The Vermont Agency of Education (AOE), through funding from a 4.9 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Education, is in the final stages of developing and implementing a Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) to support the work of the AOE and Vermont school districts. A significant portion of the federal award supports the creation…
Descriptors: State Policy, Longitudinal Studies, Data Collection, Program Implementation
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