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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sundberg, Kristina; Josephson, Anna; Reeves, Scott; Nordquist, Jonas – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
A key role for educational leaders within undergraduate medical education is to continually improve the quality of education; global quality health care is the goal. This paper reports the findings from a study employing a power model to highlight how educational leaders influence the development of undergraduate medical curricula and the…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Undergraduate Study
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Demirdögen, Betül – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2016
The purpose of this case study is to delve into the complexities of how preservice science teachers' science teaching orientations, viewed as an interrelated set of beliefs, interact with the other components of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Eight preservice science teachers participated in the study. Qualitative data were collected in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Wilt, Barbara C. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Teacher collaboration is a school improvement priority that has the potential to positively impact student learning by building the capacity of teachers. In some states, teacher collaboration is mandated by legislation. The literature indicates that policy-driven collaboration in a top-down approach results in unintentional consequences and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Education
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Sorensen, Nicholas – Professional Development in Education, 2017
This article reports on the findings of a PhD research project into the improvisatory nature of teacher expertise. The data are taken from a series of comparative case studies of seven experienced teachers working in secondary schools in the South West of England and who have been identified as being expert within their school setting. Constant…
Descriptors: Expertise, Research Projects, Case Studies, Teacher Effectiveness
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Huang, Iona Yuelu; Raimo, Vincenzo; Humfrey, Christine – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
This multiple case-based study investigates the relationship between recruiting agents and the UK universities who act as their principals. The current extensive use of agents in UK higher education may be seen as an indicator of the financial impact made by international students. The study analyses the practice of agent management and explores…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Recruitment, Higher Education, Case Studies
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