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Aguilar, Stephen J. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2018
This qualitative study focuses on capturing students' understanding two visualizations often utilized by learning analytics-based educational technologies: bar graphs, and line graphs. It is framed by Achievement Goal Theory--a prominent theory of students' academic motivation--and utilizes interviews (n = 60) to investigate how students at risk…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Visualization, At Risk Students, College Students
Czerniewicz, Laura; Deacon, Andrew; Glover, Michael; Walji, Sukaina – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2017
MOOCs have been seen as holding promise for advancing Open Education. While the pedagogical design of the first MOOCs grew out of the Open Education Movement, the current trend has MOOCs exhibiting fewer of the original openness goals than anticipated. The aim of this study is to examine the practices and attitudes of MOOC educators at an African…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Education, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Cox, Bradley E.; Thompson, Kerry; Anderson, Amelia; Mintz, Amanda; Locks, Taylor; Morgan, Lindee; Edelstein, Jeffrey; Wolz, Abigail – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are completing high school with reasonable expectations for postsecondary success. College educators are likely ill prepared to provide appropriate support for these students. Based on personal interviews with a diverse group of students with autism, this study (a) amplifies these students' voices,…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, College Faculty, Postsecondary Education
Yaman, Fatma – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
This study investigates the effect of the science writing heuristic (SWH) approach on the quality of prospective science teachers' (PSTs) argumentative writing and their understanding of the components of argumentation in the SWH approach and their own learning. Ten SWH approach activities were implemented during the semester. The study was…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Writing Skills, Heuristics, Persuasive Discourse
Kester, Kevin – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
This paper examines the role of United Nations (UN) peace academics in teaching for peace within the UN higher education system, and questions what contribution, if any, UN peacebuilding education makes to the broader field of peace and conflict studies education, and in the lives of the people it touches. The study draws on ethnographic data…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Peace, Higher Education, Conflict
Exploring How Creating Stop-Motion Animations Supports Student Teachers in Learning to Teach Science
Wishart, Jocelyn – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2017
This article reports on an exploration of teaching and learning through creating rudimentary stop-motion animations set up to identify how learning opportunities involving stop-motion animations can support student learning and science teacher education. Participants were student teachers, volunteers representing both secondary and primary school…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Animation
Taçgin, Zeynep; Arslan, Ahmet – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The purpose of this study is to determine perception of postgraduate Computer Education and Instructional Technologies (CEIT) students regarding the concepts of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), Augmented Virtuality (AV) and Mirror Reality; and to offer a table that includes differences and similarities between…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Science Education, Educational Technology
Boudreau, Will – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this exploratory research study was to examine the perceptions of seven northeast United States, college-based, Peace Education program directors regarding their respective programs' characteristics and the challenges they face. This qualitative study was designed to fill a gap in the literature by examining the perceptions of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Peace, Administrator Attitudes, Qualitative Research
Kong, Ningning; Fosmire, Michael; Branch, Benjamin Dewayne – College & Research Libraries, 2017
In the academic libraries' efforts to support digital humanities and social science, GIS service plays an important role. However, there is no general service model existing about how libraries can develop GIS services to best engage with digital humanities and social science. In this study, we adopted the action research method to develop and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Library Development, Geographic Information Systems, Academic Libraries
Morrison, Anna Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Higher education is faced with a challenge to its traditional funding structure. As a result, academic programs must seek alternative sources of support. Chief among these sources is philanthropy in the form of major gifts. Insight into donor motivations and decision making when approached to consider a major gift may help to maximize the success…
Descriptors: Donors, Higher Education, Motivation, Decision Making
McCoy, Chase; Shih, Patrick C. – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
Educational data science (EDS) is an emerging, interdisciplinary research domain that seeks to improve educational assessment, teaching, and student learning through data analytics. Teachers have been portrayed in the EDS literature as users of pre-constructed data dashboards in educational technologies, with little consideration given to them as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews, Educational Research, Data Collection
Opoczynski, Renata – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
While accountability in higher education has been a topic of debate for decades, in recent years the discussions have shifted to emphasize efficiency and economic measures of success. A prominent example of this accountability movement is the increase in popularity of performance funding policies. One of the most recent states to implement…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Performance, Higher Education, Funding Formulas
Chan, Jackie W. W.; Lau, Miki; Li, Sandy C.; Pow, Jacky; Lai, Gina; Wong, Alpha – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2017
To facilitate students' learning, teachers are keen to try out various ICT tools, recommend those they find useful to their classes, and even tailor-make tools for their classrooms with the assistance of engineers. However, students are not always eager to voluntarily apply these tools to their assignments. This paper reports on findings from a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Student Attitudes
Schwedler, Jennifer Green – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Enterprise software implementations are subject to high failure rates. Organizations of higher education can be particularly resistant to technology implementations as they can be perceived as eroding the traditions of the institution. The California State University (CSU) system is moving into a new phase of data-driven accountability for…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Innovation, Computer Software, Accountability
West, Deborah; Heath, David; Huijser, Henk – Online Learning, 2016
This paper presents a dialogical tool for the advancement of learning analytics implementation for student retention in Higher Education institutions. The framework was developed as an outcome of a project commissioned and funded by the Australian Government's "Office for Learning and Teaching". The project took a mixed-method approach…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Models, Higher Education, Mixed Methods Research