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Sainee Tamphu; Imam Suyitno; Gatut Susanto; Nia Budiana; M. Rais Salim; Nurhikmah; Wilda Purnawati – Cogent Education, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed education by enhancing personalization and learning efficiency. However, the application of AI in addressing its challenges and potential remains suboptimal. This study aims to provide a bibliometric analysis of AI in Education research, focusing on publications from 2017 to 2023 sourced from…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Research, Educational Change
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Costa, Cristina; Murphy, Mark; Pereira, Ana Lucia; Taylor, Yvette – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
This paper focuses on learning practices in higher education in relation to a digital participatory culture. Using key principles of critical education, the research set out to explore higher education students' sense of agency online -- or lack of it --as part of their formal learning practices. The research found that although students were…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Empowerment, Electronic Learning, Student Participation
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Lucas, Ursula; Tan, Phaik Leng – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
The development of a capacity to engage in critical reflection is central to higher education. However, students vary in this capacity and its development requires students to move from an absolute towards a contextual way of knowing. Using 32 semi-structured interviews, this study identifies the ways of knowing of 17 business and accounting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Epistemology, Semi Structured Interviews
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Prescott, Lynda – Studies in Continuing Education, 2012
The study described here is based on the work of creative writing students engaged in life writing for a piece of assessment in a distance-learning course. Using the finished assignment pieces themselves, the students' reflective commentaries on their completed task, and a follow-up questionnaire, the analysis was designed to explore the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Writing Instruction, Creative Writing, Adult Education
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Rix, Jonathan; Paige-Smith, Alice – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2011
The need for reflection is widely written about and positioned as a key aspect of continuing professional development. This paper examines the manner in which practitioners are encouraged to be reflective within the English system and the barriers they face. It questions whether such a complex, reaffirming system can allow for genuine critical…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Ethnography, Educational Change, Barriers
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Cook, Tina – Educational Action Research, 2009
Mess and rigour might appear to be strange bedfellows. This paper argues that the purpose of mess is to facilitate a turn towards new constructions of knowing that lead to transformation in practice (an action turn). Engaging in action research--research that can disturb both individual and communally held notions of knowledge for practice--will…
Descriptors: Investigations, Action Research, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries
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McCartney, Robert; Boustedt, Jonas; Eckerdal, Anna; Mostrom, Jan Erik; Sanders, Kate; Thomas, Lynda; Zander, Carol – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
"Threshold concepts" are concepts that, among other things, transform the way a student looks at a discipline. Although the term "threshold" might suggest that the transformation occurs at a specific point in time, an "aha" moment, it seems more common (at least in computing) that a longer time period is required.…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Transformative Learning, Scientific Concepts
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Peacock, Susi; Murray, Sue; Scott, Alison; Kelly, Jacquie – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2011
This article reports findings of a study based in Scotland that explored healthcare learners' experiences of feedback and ePortfolios. Feedback is a highly complex, multi-dimensional phenomenon, and healthcare learners consider it essential for their learning, recognizing that without it patient safety may be compromised. This study sought to…
Descriptors: Role, Transformative Learning, Portfolios (Background Materials), Allied Health Occupations Education
Käpplinger, Bernd, Ed.; Lichte, Nina, Ed.; Haberzeth, Erik, Ed.; Kulmus, Claudia, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
This book assembles over 50 papers from the 7th Triennial European Research Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA), which was held from the 4th to the 7th of September 2013 at Humboldt-University in Berlin. The title of the conference was "Changing Configurations of Adult Education in Transitional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Higher Education, Nontraditional Students
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Walters, David A. – Pastoral Care in Education, 2008
In some ways, "a culture of the modern consulting room" may be seen as having been initiated by Freud and followers. Here, social hierarchy, unconscious motivation and the authority of analyst may all be seen as manifestations of professional practice. With the contributions of Heidegger, Kierkegaard, May, Adler, Rogers and others of the…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Transformative Learning, Educational Philosophy, Humanistic Education
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Pohland, Paul; Bova, Breda – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2000
Analytically describes the annual Educational Leadership Development Conference held at St. Peter's College, Oxford University. Highlights the venue, participants, program goals, activity structure, and learning processes, drawing from the literature in adult learning, andragogy, and transformational learning and using Cranston's process model as…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Conferences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Harvey, Lee; Knight, Peter T. – 1996
The theme of this book is that the drive for quality in higher education in Britain and the concurrent moves to reform teaching and learning have not been connected organizationally or in practice. Drawing on the Quality in Higher Education research project, the book examines the variety of meanings of "quality" showing that a tension…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Cox, Philip – 2002
This guide, which examines the relationship between learning processes and learning outcomes, is aimed at senior managers, quality managers, and others at colleges and other post-16 learning providers in the United Kingdom. It is intended to help them define the key processes undertaken by learning providers, understand the critical relationships…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Culturally Relevant Education