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Abdullateef Isiaka Alagbonsi; M. Faadiel Essop; Yasser El-Wazir; Trevor Nyakudya; Goma Fastone; Frank Mojiminiyi; Amal Saeed; Ger J. M. Stienen; Emmanuel Balandya; Yinusa Raji; Fatou Bintou Sarr; Abdoulaye Samb; Ashabilan Ebrahim; Ulrich Pohl; Dee U. Silverthorn – Advances in Physiology Education, 2025
Physiology education in Africa faces challenges due to gaps in curricula across many of its universities, such as divergent content, a lack of standardized competencies, and suitable benchmarking. Here, we describe the development of the Physiology Curriculum for African Universities (PhysioCAFUN), a competency-based curriculum development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Physiology, Curriculum Development
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Gervásio, João; Sampaio, Yala; Muniz, Paulo; Yamada, Camila; Felicori, Liza F. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2022
Learning synthetic biology is often seen as a far distant possibility, restricted to those who have the privilege of an academic career. We propose a student-centered discussion group around synthetic biology, aimed at people from high school onwards with different backgrounds to interact and learn about synthetic biology. We developed a 14-week…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Group Discussion, Teaching Methods
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Esquibel, Joseph; Rook, Deborah L.; LoRe, Sondra M.; Starnes, John H.; Miller, Jillian M.; Buntz, Jennifer G.; Hugo, Alys; Nieuwsma, Christianne B.; Seitz, Heather; Bissell, Ahrash; Gross, Louis; Kiser, Stacey; Lenhart, Suzanne; Mills, Michael A.; Neuhauser, Claudia; Corriette, Irene; Prescott, Sarah; Jenkins, Kristin P.; Karpakakunjaram, Vedham – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Mastery of quantitative skills is increasingly critical for student success in life sciences, but few curricula adequately incorporate quantitative skills. Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) is designed to address this need by building a grassroots consortium of community college faculty to (1) engage in interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, College Science, Community Colleges
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Zapata, Gabriela C. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
This article investigates the results of a book sprint experience whose main objective was the development of instructional modules for an open textbook for the teaching of Spanish as a second language. Six graduate students at a public American university participated in the project for a week, working in pairs in the creation of activities that…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, College Faculty, Collaborative Writing, Public Colleges
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Elby, Andrew; Yerdelen-Damar, Sevda – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Curriculum Development: Theory into Design.] In the "standard" physics education research curriculum-development model, researchers are cast primarily as producers of curricula and instructors are cast primarily consumers, i.e., adopters and adapters. We illustrate a complementary model in…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Science Curriculum, Educational Researchers
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Hilliam, Rachel; Calvert, Carol – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2017
Statistics pervades everyone's lives, whether it is through media coverage, reading reports, weighing up internal risks or evaluating decisions. Most managers are swamped by endless targets, dashboards and spreadsheets, but few organisations have enough employees with statistical skills to support the requirement for evidence based decision…
Descriptors: Statistics, Learning Modules, Mathematics Education, Open Universities
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Law, Patrina; Jelfs, Anne – Open Praxis, 2016
The Open University (OU) makes a proportion of all its taught modules available to the public via OpenLearn each year. This process involves the modification, of module excerpts, showcasing subject matter and teaching approach. This activity serves both the University's social and business missions through the delivery of free courses to the…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Open Universities, Learning Modules, Educational Resources
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Méndez-Carbajo, Diego; Wolla, Scott A. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2019
This article studies the differences in student learning outcomes associated with changes in the format of online learning resources. We compare completion rates and degrees of student achievement across several economic education learning modules produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Initially designed as a long-form online learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Materials, Learning Modules, Outcomes of Education
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Allen, Lauren K.; Eagleson, Roy; de Ribaupierre, Sandrine – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
Neuroanatomy is one of the most challenging subjects in anatomy, and novice students often experience difficulty grasping the complex three-dimensional (3D) spatial relationships. This study evaluated a 3D neuroanatomy e-learning module, as well as the relationship between spatial abilities and students' knowledge in neuroanatomy. The study's…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Neurosciences, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students
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Drissi, Samia; Amirat, Abdelkrim – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
Personalized e-learning implementation is recognized as one of the most interesting research areas in the distance web-based education. Since the learning style of each learner is different one must fit e-learning with the different needs of learners. This paper presents an approach to integrate learning styles into adaptive e-learning hypermedia.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Cognitive Style, Assistive Technology
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Handlin, Amy – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
This paper describes an ethics module developed by the author to engage marketing research students during the fall semester, when they are bombarded by political polls. The module matches ethically questionable polling practices to similarly troubling practices in marketing research. The goals are to show that ethical principles are not topic- or…
Descriptors: Marketing, Ethics, Scientific Research, Teaching Methods
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Teng, Khor Ean; Hung, Chung Sheng – Open Praxis, 2013
This paper describes the framework for the development of OER-based learning materials "TCC121/05 Programming Fundamentals with Java" for ODL learners in Wawasan Open University (WOU) using three main development phases mainly: creation, evaluation and production phases. The proposed framework has further been tested on ODL learners to…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Programming, Instructional Materials, Material Development
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Kaneene, John B.; Ssajjakambwe, Paul; Kisaka, Stevens; Miller, RoseAnn; Kabasa, John D. – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2013
The AgShare Phase I Program, conducted at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, was formed to create open education resources for teaching and community development through action research. The study was conducted by an interdisciplinary team of investigators from fields of veterinary medicine and agri-business. Two master of science students…
Descriptors: Action Research, Open Source Technology, Educational Resources, Foreign Countries
Henze, Rosemary C. – Corwin Press, 2004
The video and facilitator's guide accompanying the author's book, "Leading for Diversity," feature the four key principles for improving ethnic relations found in the book: (1) Building Community; (2) Affirming Identity; (3) Cultivating Student Leadership; and (4) Addressing Root Causes. This video, directed by the author, features real classroom…
Descriptors: Videotape Recordings, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Leadership, Racial Relations
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Page, Tom; Thorsteinsson, Gisli – Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
The work outlined here provides a comprehensive report and formative observations of the development and implementation of hypermedia resources for learning and teaching used in conjunction with a managed learning environment (MLE). These resources are used to enhance teaching and learning of an electronics module in product design at final year…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Electronics
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