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Feekery, Angela Joy; Chisholm, Katherine; Jeffrey, Carla; Diesch, Fiona – Journal of Information Literacy, 2021
Creating information literate students and future employees is an expected outcome of a tertiary education. This paper shares insights from a successful collaboration between an academic and three university librarians to create an online learning module designed to develop students' professional information literacy capability: identifying…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, College Faculty, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Academic Libraries
Schaughency, Elizabeth; Reese, Elaine; Healey, Dione; Carroll, Jane; Cross, Tracy; Johnson, Jan; Fagan, Heather; Burrowes, Rachael – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2019
This project partnered researchers, Visiting Teachers, and three networks of home-based educators to engage with three research-informed professional learning modules designed to support educator practice and enhance children's learning. Each module focused on one aspect of developing competencies related to success in beginning schooling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Preschool Children
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Strauss, P.; Mooney, S. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
This article discusses the complexities surrounding the teaching of a critical thinking and academic writing module on a vocational postgraduate programme. Students enrolled on this programme are strongly industry focused and often fail to see the relevance of such a module, despite the fact that most are international students with English as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Hospitality Occupations, Student Interests
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McPhail, Graham – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2018
This paper considers curriculum integration in the secondary school context and investigates the claims made that it can enhance learning outcomes for students. I argue that curriculum integration should be utilized not as a main means of curricular delivery but as a supplementary opportunity to put disciplinary knowledge to use in certain,…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Secondary School Curriculum, Case Studies, National Competency Tests
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Doherty, Iain – Journal of Learning Design, 2010
Our paper describes the design and development of a set of online professional development modules to support academic staff in improving and enhancing their teaching. We show how we created a learning design to allow staff to quickly and easily develop their teaching in line with University performance expectations whilst also providing staff…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Electronic Publishing, Learning Modules
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Clayton, John – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
Education has long been regarded as the foundation stone of national growth and international competitiveness. In the last three decades national educational reforms to improve access to higher education qualifications, individual higher education institutions' aggressive national and international marketing initiatives and improved information…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Learning Modules
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Kolandai-Matchett, Komathi; Spellerberg, Ian; Buchan, Graeme D.; Early, Nick – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2009
News media reporting on sustainability and environmental (S&E) issues is seen as a form of informal environmental education. For journalists to play such an educative role, prior education on these topics appears necessary. By assessing a trial introductory-level journalism module on sustainability, this case study strengthens the argument for…
Descriptors: Journalism Education, Environmental Education, Program Effectiveness, News Reporting
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Keown, Paul – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2009
Virtual communities of practice (VCoP) have been advocated for some time as a promising means of taking professional development to teachers in widely distributed locations. However, geography, and indeed education literature as a whole, contains very few examples where this has been achieved. This paper reports on two VCoP professional…
Descriptors: Geography, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Social Studies
New Zealand Qualifications Authority, Wellington. – 1992
When the New Zealand Qualifications Authority began designing the National Qualifications Framework, it was discovered that the modular studies program in Tikipunga High School was a model of the type of preparation needed to implement the framework. Characteristics of the Tikipunga modular studies program are as follows: (1) a 6-week semester for…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Demonstration Programs, Educational Change, Employment Qualifications
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Vlaardingerbroek, Barend; Taylor, T. G. Neil – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2007
The recent structural reforms in New Zealand education have given schools and teachers unprecedented freedom in curricular design and delivery. Using official educational award statistics for 2004 and data arising from a study of 23 schools' upper secondary science curricula in the same year, this study represents an early monitoring of the impact…
Descriptors: Physical Sciences, Biology, Foreign Countries, Science Education
New Zealand Qualifications Authority, Wellington. – 1991
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority was established to develop a consistent approach to the recognition of academic and vocational qualifications. The National Qualifications Framework was designed following surveys of a number of sectors: universities, colleges of education, polytechnics, private training firms, schools, businesses, unions,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Certification, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
New Zealand Qualifications Authority, Wellington. – 1991
This document is intended to generate discussion about the plans of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority for developing a National Qualifications Framework. The document begins with an explanation of the qualifications framework in Maori and in English. A guide to reading the document points out its organization and the inclusion of diagrams…
Descriptors: Accountability, Certification, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Schuller, Tom, Ed. – 1995
This collection of papers investigates change and compares university education experiences worldwide, looking at it from the perspective of numbers of students, range of institutions, funding, institutional functions, boundaries, and directions, orientation of students and staff, and institutional change. After an introduction by Tom Schuler,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change, Change Agents, College Faculty
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Goh, Tiong; Kinshuk – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2006
Emerging from e-learning, mobile learning is going to be a significant next wave of learning environments. This is an evolving research area and many issues regarding mobile learning have not yet been exhaustively covered. This article focuses on implementing m-learning modules using a simple case study. Most existing typical e-learning systems…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Computers, Internet, Telecommunications
Bennett, N. – SASTA Journal, 1980
Describes modular science units for use in New Zealand primary schools. Includes a description of format, trial units, final product, and list of titles, as well as samples of a title page and page from a teacher's guide. (DS)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
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