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Leonard, Kelsey – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
This article explores the environmental and sustainability programs of Indigenous Higher Education Institutions (IHEIs) in North America. There are 38 Tribal Colleges and Universities in the United States and 26 Indigenous post-secondary institutions in Canada. Deploying a critical discourse analysis, the study examines IHEI websites to document…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, American Indian Education, Tribally Controlled Education
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McKeown, Janet K. L.; Rich, Kyle – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2021
Many recreation and leisure professionals are looking for opportunities to upgrade their skills and knowledge in the context of their work. For some professionals that involves returning to post-secondary education. Yet, most undergraduate degree programs are designed in formats for students who are assumed to have little prior professional…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Leisure Education
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Balyasnikova, Natalia – BC TEAL Journal, 2020
Many community-based English language learning programs rely on volunteers to lead classes. While some of these volunteers have some teacher training, the majority are not professional educators. The question of how non-professionals understand what constitutes facilitation of language learning in an adult education context remains underexplored.…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Dai, Jiamin; Granikov, Vera; El Sherif, Reem; Grguric, Ekatarina; Turcotte, Emmanuelle; Pluye, Pierre – Education for Information, 2019
With an increasing volume of health information online, it becomes critical for consumers to improve their search and evaluation skills to retrieve reliable information. The Patient Information Aid (PIA) program is aimed to facilitate information seeking, potentially leading to positive outcomes of online consumer health information and the…
Descriptors: Patients, Information Literacy, Information Sources, Information Seeking
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Bajwa, Jaswant Kaur; Kidd, Sean; Abaim, Mulugeta; Knouzi, Ibtissem; Couto, Sidonia; McKenzie, Kwame – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2020
This paper describes how various community partners collaborated to design and implement a student-centred, trauma-informed educational program that addresses the personal and systemic barriers identified by refugees who are survivors of trauma as obstacles to accessing higher education, and consequently social inclusion, in Canada. This 14-week…
Descriptors: Trauma, Refugees, Student Centered Learning, Program Design
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Sharon Friesen; Michele Jacobsen – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Faculties of Education in North America are experiencing an increase in demand for professional graduate programs that provide flexible and accessible research pathways for working professionals. Our School of Education offers high quality professional graduate programs that increase access and respond directly to complex needs and problems of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Graduate Study, Active Learning, Blended Learning
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Morrill, Janet – Accounting Education, 2019
Internationally educated professionals (IEPs) encounter significant barriers to entry to their professions upon immigrating. Obtaining education in the new country is an effective means of improving their positions. While universities emphasize the need to attract and serve adult learners and a more diverse clientele, the specific needs of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Foreign Students, College Students, Transitional Programs
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Koroluk, Jaymie; Atkins, Bridgette; Stranach, Matthew – Journal of Professional, Continuing, and Online Education, 2016
A key role of teaching and learning centres at postsecondary education institutions is to provide professional development for faculty and staff. A challenge for teaching and learning centre staff is to design, develop, and deliver professional development programs that are engaging and relevant to participants. This Report of Practice describes…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Blended Learning, Teaching Assistants, Faculty Development
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Lam, Chi Yan; Shulha, Lyn M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2015
This article contributes to research on evaluation by examining the capacity and contribution of developmental evaluation for innovating. This case study describes the "preformative development" of an educational program (from conceptualization to pilot implementation) and analyzes the processes of innovation within a developmental…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Research, Evaluation, Program Design
Poh, Paul S. H.; Soetanto, Robby; Austin, Stephen; Adamu, Zulkifar A. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Requiring students to complete their course assignments in partnership and in collaboration with students from other institutions is not commonplace teaching pedagogy. Even less so when they transcend disciplines and international borders. This paper presents a brief account of an ongoing collaborative effort between Ryerson University, Coventry…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Teamwork
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Shera, Wes; Dill, Katharine – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Practice and Research Together (PART) is an Ontario-based research utilization initiative, the core function of which is to distil and disseminate practice-relevant research findings to child welfare practitioners. This article addresses (a) the mission and goals of the PART program; (b) the key components of the program design; (c) the conceptual…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Design, Research and Development, Formative Evaluation
Notenboom, Rob; Moore, Jeff – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2011
Trek School is an outdoor school program for any Grade 11 students in Regina, Saskatchewan. During the program, students engage in a series of classroom, outdoor, and experiential activities. The various courses are taught through these experiences. The program is designed to help students develop in the areas of independent learning, critical and…
Descriptors: School Activities, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
McAuley, Alexander; Walton, Fiona – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
Offered between 2006 and 2009 and graduating 21 Inuit candidates, the Nunavut Master of Education program was a collaborative effort made to address the erosion of Inuit leadership in the K-12 school system after the creation of Nunavut, Canada's newest territory, in 1999. Delivered to a large extent in short, intensive, face-to-face courses, the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Eskimos, Foreign Countries, Internet
Harris, Dik; McEwen, Laura April – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2009
This article describes the design and implementation of a workshop on teaching and learning for graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in a Faculty of Science at a major Canadian research-intensive university. The approach borrows heavily from an existing successful workshop for faculty but is tailored specifically to the needs of GTAs in science in…
Descriptors: Workshops, Teaching Assistants, Teaching Methods, Program Descriptions
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Danby, Susan; Lee, Alison – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
With growing international interest in diversifying sites for pedagogical work within the doctorate, doctoral programmes of different kinds are being developed in different disciplinary, institutional and national settings. However, little is known about how the pedagogical work of these programmes is designed and enacted, and with what effects.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Social Action, Doctoral Programs
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