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Rumbidzayi Masina – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a pivotal role in preparing students to contribute to sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study focused on the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and examined how SDGs were integrated into the field of textile science, apparel design, and technology (TSADT). The research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textiles Instruction, Clothing Instruction, Sustainable Development
Amy E. Collins-Warfield; Jera E. Niewoehner-Green; Scott D. Scheer; Kristen J. Mills – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
This qualitative case study proposes a pedagogy to support the academic success of students from historically excluded groups (HEGs), e.g. first-generation students, low-income students, and Students of Color, who are struggling academically. We adopted a 'student-ready' approach (McNair et al. 2016), which foregrounds institutional responsibility…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, At Risk Students, Low Income Students
Jill A. Perry; David G. Imig – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2016
A history of change efforts by philanthropic agencies and government organizations directed at graduate schools of education has not produced long-term or sustained changes in their form and function. The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), however, has been able to demonstrate that external change efforts can result in change in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Doctoral Degrees
Hillier, Janet; Dunn-Jensen, Linda M. – Journal of Management Education, 2013
Although most business students participate in team-based projects during undergraduate or graduate course work, the team experience does not always teach team skills or capture the team members' potential: Students complete the task at hand but the explicit process of becoming a team is often not learned. Drawing from organizational learning…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Group Dynamics, Business Administration Education
Conti, Alvaro – Journal of Learning Design, 2013
This paper outlines an attempt to loosen the existing role and structure of the traditional "thesis" as the key undergraduate learning instrument within universities in Thailand. It does so by describing an exemplary project -- Polly's project - that uses technology to facilitate an exit from the "regulatory space" in which…
Descriptors: Theses, Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Educational Change
Nomme, Kathy; Birol, Gülnur – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
A first year non-majors biology course, with an enrollment of around 440 students, has been redesigned from a course of traditional content and teaching style to one that emphasizes biological concepts in current global issues and incorporates active learning strategies. We were informed by the education literature incorporating many aspects of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Evidence, Curriculum Development, Biology
Lagarto, José Reis; Mineiro, Ana; Pereira, Joana – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2013
This article results from a case study with exploratory traits where the implementation of a graduate degree in Portuguese Sign Language at the Portuguese Catholic University is analysed. With this study we intend to determine whether distance learning models using blended learning strategies are adequate for deaf students at the university level.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Distance Education, Graduate Students, Case Studies
Mavroudi, Anna; Hadzilacos, Thanasis – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2013
This paper presents a case study where twelve graduate students undertook the demanding role of the adaptive e-course developer and worked collaboratively on an authentic and complex design task in the context of open and distance tertiary education. The students had to work in groups in order to conceptualise and design a learning scenario for…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Instructional Design, Teamwork, Cooperative Planning
Hewlett, Katherine – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2012
This project built upon the AchieveAbility initiative, which develops materials and training for teaching specific learning difference learners in schools and colleges. AchieveAbility devised the concept for the "InCurriculum" Project and brought together a consortium of United Kingdom higher education institutions to deliver the…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Learning Disabilities
Singh, Oma B. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study used a design based-research (DBR) methodology to examine how an Instructional Systematic Design (ISD) process such as ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) can be employed to develop a web-based module to teach metacognitive learning strategies to students in higher education. The goal of the study was…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Learning Strategies, Educational Technology, Internet
Del Mar Marin Sanchez, Ma; Ronco, Alicia Mateos – Online Submission, 2010
The Spanish educational system will require certain changes in order to achieve the Bologna objectives for the European Higher Education Area, including a more professional profile, with new activities and roles for both students and teachers, who must assume new skills that will affect concepts and attitudes related to the teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Learning Processes
Representing Authentic Learning Designs Supporting the Development of Online Communities of Learners
Oliver, Ron; Herrington, Anthony; Herrington, Jan; Reeves, Thomas C. – Journal of Learning Design, 2007
Authentic learning designs have been explored for some time now and have frequently been shown to provide learning settings that provide many meaningful contexts for learning. These meaningful contexts provide not only encouragement for students to learn but also a raft of learning enhancements including higher-order learning and forms of learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Educational Technology
Khoumsi, Ahmed; Gonzalez-Rubio, Ruben – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2006
Our department has redesigned its electrical engineering and computer engineering programs completely by adopting a learning methodology based on competence development, problem solving, and the realization of design projects. In this article, we show how this pedagogical approach has been successfully used for learning compiler design.
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Competency Based Education, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education