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Jeanette Abrahamsen; Glenn Gordon Smith; Vanya Tsvetkova – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2023
This interview study offers educators practical tips on using tools to improve online learning experiences. Eleven instructors, professors, and instructional designers were interviewed about the challenges they faced designing and teaching online university courses in Florida. This study aimed to explore how educators and instructional designers…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology, College Faculty
R. G. Easterly; Debra M. Barry – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2022
A nationwide standardized curricular resource does not exist for school-based agricultural education. Teachers rely on several resources to develop instruction for students. Pedagogical Design Capacity (PDC) examines teachers' capacity to perceive and mobilize existing resources to develop instructional episodes. The purpose of the study was to…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Use Studies, Instructional Design, Agriculture Teachers
Potts, Jerkeshea – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Document Based Questioning (DBQ) with third, fourth, and fifth grade students during their 120-minute literacy block. Standardized test scores in the areas of reading and writing during the 2013-2014 school year dropped significantly (Florida Department of Education, 2013). As a result,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Elementary School Students, Questioning Techniques
Joseph M. Morano – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The following research study discusses how the St. Lucie District public schools can transform to virtual education. Inspiration for the following dissertation has been derived from the recent outbreak and pandemic of the COVID-19 virus and how it has crippled the global education sector. The closure of schools in the United States due to the 2019…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Electronic Learning, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Cavanagh, Thomas; Chen, Baiyun; Lahcen, Rachid Ait Maalem; Paradiso, James R. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
While adaptive learning is emerging as a promising technology to promote access and quality at a large scale in higher education (Becker et al., 2018), the implementation of adaptive learning in teaching and learning is still sporadic, and it is unclear how to best design and teach an adaptive learning course in a higher education context. As…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, College Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Educational Technology
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Lori A. Mumpower; Chad Rohrbacher; Joshua Caulkins; Jenna Korentsides – To Improve the Academy, 2024
Researchers seek to measure the extent to which faculty increased their student-centered practices in response to COVID-19 by analyzing course syllabi across three semesters. Faculty were randomly selected from two campuses of a STEM-focused institution (n = 110), each of whom had taught the same course during Fall 2019, Fall 2020, and Fall 2022.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Course Descriptions
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Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Newman, Katherine Mackay; Kim, Eun Sook – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study investigates both the proximal processes and contextual influences on children's oral language development in preschool. We examine whether teacher language practices vary across activity settings and program type, which teacher language practices predict children's oral language skills, and potential…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Context Effect, Oral Language, Language Acquisition
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Greg Wiggan, Editor; Annette Teasdell, Editor; Marcia J. Watson-Vandiver, Editor – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
This volume presents Critical Race Structuralism as a framework for analyzing, explaining, and mitigating social and educational inequities. The book explores structural and systemic issues in schools with the aim of promoting greater DEI in education and beyond. With a focus on diversity and inclusion, it also addresses issues such as school…
Descriptors: Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Social Bias, Equal Education, Student Diversity
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Kinzli, Kristoph-Dietrich; Kunberger, Tanya; O'Neill, Robert; Badir, Ashraf – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
Demonstration models allow students to readily grasp theory and relate difficult concepts and equations to real life. However drawbacks of using these demonstration models are that they are can be costly to purchase from vendors or take a significant amount of time to build. These two limiting factors can pose a significant obstacle for adding…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Demonstrations (Educational), Models, Teaching Models
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Kim, Younhee – Teaching Public Administration, 2017
A capstone experience, as an exit degree requirement, allows Master of Public Administration (MPA) students to build quasi-experimental practices by applying learned knowledge and skills throughout their curriculum in the United States. Accredited MPA programs have implemented their capstone courses differently to achieve required standards. Small…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Public Administration Education, Program Design, Professional Education
Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2019
To help teachers implement new, research-based approaches for leveraging technology to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning, a systematic review of the research literature on the impact of integrating innovative digital technology in STEM and computer science curricula and classrooms was conducted. For purposes…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Hou, Su-I – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
This convergent mixed method quasi-experiment study evaluates the effectiveness of an HIV Prevention Webcourses on reaching HIV related competencies among college students at a large public university in Florida. College students in health majors participated in the study, experiment group were students enrolled in the HIV Webcourses and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Course Evaluation, Comparative Analysis, College Students
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Sanghoon Park; Howard Kaplan; Rudy Schlaf; Eric Tridas – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2018
The Makecourse-Art is a makerspace designed to promote undergraduate students' aesthetic design skills as well as functional design skills using an interdisciplinary team approach at the University of South Florida. To overcome the unique challenges of the Makecourse (earlier version) and to maximize students' design efforts working on an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Aesthetics, Design, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Accurso, Kathryn – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Many K-12 teachers struggle to meet the needs of diverse learners as school reforms promote new disciplinary literacy requirements. In response, language education scholars have argued that teachers must develop "disciplinary linguistic knowledge" (DLK), or an understanding of language in their content area and an ability to design…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Literacy, Intellectual Disciplines
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Darabi, Aubteen; Arrington, Thomas Logan – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
As students graduate and enter the workforce, they face the job market's demand for critical thinking (CT) skills. The demand is caused by the market's increasing need for providing professional services that require performing complex tasks. In response to this demand, institutions of higher education are expected to prepare their graduate…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Critical Thinking, Graduate Students, Systems Approach
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