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Blatchford, Peter – Education 3-13, 2021
The issue of class size is a complex and contested topic that has divided opinion for many years. Whilst many teachers believe that smaller class sizes assist in enhancing outcomes, a number of policy influencers, policy makers and researchers argue that it has little influence on success in learning and that decreasing class sizes is not…
Descriptors: Class Size, Teacher Attitudes, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Research
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Salmon, Gilly; Wright, Phemie – Education Sciences, 2014
Academic staff in Higher Education (HE) need to transform their teaching practices to support more future-orientated, digital, student-centered learning. Promoting, enabling and implementing these changes urgently requires acceptable, meaningful and effective staff development for academics. We identify four key areas that are presenting as…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, College Faculty
Stanistreet, Paul – Adults Learning, 2009
The term "open university" was coined by that visionary "seedsman" of reformist ideas Michael Young in an article for a 1962 number of "Where?" magazine. He proposed an "open university" to prepare people for external degrees at London University, with three key functions: (1) to organise new and better…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Residential Schools, Educational Innovation, Higher Education
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Achumba, Ifeyinwa E.; Azzi, Djamel; Stocker, James – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2010
The laboratory component of undergraduate engineering education poses challenges in resource constrained engineering faculties. The cost, time, space and physical presence requirements of the traditional (real) laboratory approach are the contributory factors. These resource constraints may mitigate the acquisition of meaningful laboratory…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Engineering Education, Web Based Instruction, Computer Simulation
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Wells, Graeme – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2007
Government-provided services are caught in the jaws of a "cost-tax vice". On the cost side, the long-term trend of rising relative prices of services, including education, seems set to continue. The other jaw of the vice is the high efficiency cost of raising additional taxes. Recent research making the case for public provision of…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Community Education, Vocational Education, Adult Education
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Fuller, Alison; Unwin, Lorna – Education & Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to first, outline the features of the contemporary apprenticeship system, and its performance in terms of the numbers starting and completing programmes and second, to report the findings of empirical research which sought to identify the characteristics of effective apprenticeship.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration, Apprenticeships, Adult Learning
Hole, James – 1970
The object of this essay is to establish the right of the working class to a popular culture. It was written in reaction to the great disparity which existed in England between the progress achieved in terms of material wealth and the low moral and intellectual state of those whose labor had produced it. Chapter I, History, delves into the origin…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Continuing Education Centers, Cost Effectiveness
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers