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Catherine Lloyd – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2025
Purpose: Agriculture globally is undergoing a period of change driven by policy and environmental factors. This study focuses on further education in England, defined as a study after secondary education that is not part of higher education. Specifically, it explores how changes in the agricultural sector impact the practice of agriculture…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Agricultural Education, Environmental Influences
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Almajali, Mohammad; Al Afif, Rafat; Maaith, Omer – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
Graduates of engineering programs have to be enabled to create hardware products by having easy access to methods for designing, manufacturing, distributing and learning. Such capabilities can be hosted in makerspaces. The makerspace approach remains immature in many developing economies, such as Jordan. Academia in Jordan is considered mostly…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Higher Education, Technical Institutes, Engineering Education
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Gregory, Rhonda L.; Rockinson-Szapkiw, Amanda J.; Cook, Vickie S. – Online Learning, 2020
This paper reviewed the factors that make up quality assurance including course design, content, delivery, and institutional support, as well as infrastructure in relationship to professional development impact on teaching practice. Building on the assumption identified in literature is the concept of course design being the most critical…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Scoring Rubrics
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Harrington, Christine; Hooper, Kimberlee; Hughes, AnnMarie; Klein, Eric; Melendez, John; Siddique, Faraz; Wasserman, Ellen – Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, 2021
The purpose of this article is to provide an example of how an EdD in Community College Leadership program is offered in an online format. First, the benefits of online programs, including increased access and flexibility for working professionals and higher levels of diversity among the student body are discussed. Then, several strategies to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Doctoral Programs, Community Colleges
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Mawonedzo, Abigal; Tanga, Magdaline; Luggya, Simon; Nsubuga, Yvonne – Education & Training, 2020
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to explore how the strategies of entrepreneurship education in clothing and textile programmes are implemented in selected Technical Colleges in Zimbabwe. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative research approach was adopted for this paper. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from 42…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education, Technical Institutes
Jennifer James – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative research study sought to understand the affordances and limitations of a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) approach to teaching composition at the community college level. The study took place over the course of a semester in two developmental college composition classes using the language of SFL to teach writing through…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Writing (Composition), Teaching Methods, Metalinguistics
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Yeldham, Michael; Choy, Vincent – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
The main purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness for L2 English learners of a new direct approach to segmental pronunciation instruction that combined articulatory instruction with abdominal enhancement techniques. The participants were Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong, where the school curriculum relies chiefly on indirect…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Scanlon Maramante, Lori – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this Executive Position Paper project was to develop educational resources to support the teaching of nature of science topics to undergraduate students at Delaware Technical Community College. The investigation was driven by two exploratory projects and a review of the literature. The first exploratory project examined the…
Descriptors: Science Education, Scientific Principles, Two Year College Students, Textbooks
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Moreno, German Alonso; Rutledge, David – Educational Action Research, 2018
This paper explores the value of participatory action research in a community college developmental mathematics course. The authors used the framework of critical mathematics education in order to understand the critical conversations of students about their learning experiences, and also to help the instructor of the course develop the curriculum…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Community Colleges, Learning Experience
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Avni, Sharon; Finn, Heather B. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
To improve students' outcomes and retention rates, community colleges have implemented acceleration strategies which hasten the completion of educational requirements (Edgecombe, 2011). The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of an accelerated freshmen writing course on teachers' curricular decisions and pedagogical practices at…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Acceleration (Education), College Freshmen
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Zimmerer, Mary; Skidmore, Susan Troncoso; Chuppa-Cornell, Kim; Sindel-Arrington, Tricia – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Skill and drill remediation in developmental reading courses do not prepare students for reading tasks in future college-level courses. When a skill and drill model is replaced with a model that utilizes contextualization, students engage in relevant activities with authentic texts to prepare students for college-level activities. The reading…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Colls, Guillermo R. – CATESOL Journal, 2019
This article recounts some of the motivations, hurdles, and successes the Cuyamaca ESL Department in San Diego encountered while transforming its curriculum to an accelerated model. The college discovered that the new program, while challenging, increased the success and rate of passing among its language learners and improved the quality of their…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Casola, Linda – National Academies Press, 2020
Established in December 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education was charged with identifying the challenges of and highlighting best practices in postsecondary data science education. Convening quarterly for 3 years, representatives from academia, industry, and…
Descriptors: Meetings, Data Analysis, Postsecondary Education, Statistics Education
Rodriguez, Olga; Bohn, Sarah; Hill, Laura; Brooks, Bonnie – Public Policy Institute of California, 2019
This report aims to fill the gap in research on English as a Second Language (ESL) programs at California's community colleges and the effectiveness of reforms aimed at improving student success. A number of colleges have implemented curricular reforms in recent years--accelerating coursework, integrating skills courses, and the like. These…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs
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Ariyo, Oluwunmi; Hagler, Ashely; Armstrong, Melissa; Woodson, Heather Miller – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Employment within STEM fields has been escalating at a greater rate than employment in other fields (National Science Foundation, 2010). Unfortunately, the number of college students moving into STEM fields of study are substantially low (Lowell & Regets, 2006). The first two years of STEM education for many students take place at the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Science
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