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European Education and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2024
Education has an important role to play in advancing the green transition and building a sustainable future for Europe's societies and economies. This Eurydice report examines how European countries integrate learning for sustainability in teaching and school life in 39 education systems. The report investigates which sustainability-related…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Competence, Curriculum Development
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Maletic, Marija; Barac, Dušan; Naumovic, Tamara; Bogdanovic, Zorica; Radenkovic, Božidar – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Given that the most students spend considerable time on social networks, many educational institutions use this habit as a basis for educational purposes. Increasing students' active participation in learning activities is one of the main goals of education. The purpose of this research was to investigate to what extent crowdvoting techniques can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Voting, Competition
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Lieberthal, Robert D.; Leon, Juan – Journal of Economic Education, 2015
The authors describe a Wikipedia-based project designed for a graduate course introducing health economics to experienced healthcare professionals. The project allows such students to successfully write articles on niche topics in rapidly evolving health economics subspecialties. These students are given the opportunity to publish their completed…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Online Courses, Graduate Study, Economics Education
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Shoemaker, Nikki – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2014
Both practitioners and researchers recognize the increasing importance of knowledge sharing in organizations (Bock, Zmud, Kim, & Lee, 2005; Vera-Muñoz, Ho, & Chow, 2006). Knowledge sharing influences a firm's knowledge creation, organizational learning, performance achievement, growth, and competitive advantage (Bartol &…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Management, Sharing Behavior, Student Motivation
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Bird, William A.; Martin, Michael J.; Simonsen, Jon C. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine student motivation for SAEs through the lens of the Self-Determination Theory. Self-Determination Theory proposed that human beings are more genuinely motivated when driven by internal factors as opposed to external factors. We used historical research and general qualitative interpretative methods to…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Self Determination, Qualitative Research, Agricultural Education
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Tlhoaele, Malefyane; Suhre, Cor; Hofman, Adriaan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Cooperative learning may improve students' motivation, understanding of course concepts, and academic performance. This study therefore enhanced a cooperative, group-project learning technique with technology resources to determine whether doing so improved students' deep learning and performance. A sample of 118 engineering students, randomly…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Comprehension, Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning
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Ferrante, Claudia J.; Green, Steve G.; Forster, William R. – Journal of Management Education, 2006
This study addresses changes in student perceptions when team leaders are incentivized. Although the benefits of groupwork have been thoroughly studied and documented, minimizing dysfunctional teamwork may prove difficult because of leadership incentives, social loafing, and organizational justice implications. Using an innovative pedagogical…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Instructional Effectiveness, Student Leadership, Incentives