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Kirsten Namesnik-Silvester; Marike Polak; Niels Smits; Joukje Swinkels; Lidia Arends; Dimitris Pavlopoulos; Anastasios Psychogyiopoulos; Oliver Lindemann; Sharon Klinkenberg; Marleen H. M. de Moor – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2025
Gaining knowledge of statistics is important in most (under)graduate programs within the social and behavioral sciences and requires repeated study by students, highlighting the need for good practice materials. We describe the development of an open item bank of statistics exercises by a community of instructors from Dutch universities: the…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries
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T. Laine Scales; Veronica L. Timbers; Jennifer C. Hollenburger – Journal of Online Graduate Education, 2024
In 2008, the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) presented research on how to help doctoral students thrive and successfully transition into higher education roles. The CID reported that doctoral students often left programs that were using an expert-apprentice model, where students are expected to strictly follow the methods and style of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Electronic Learning, Doctoral Programs, Social Work
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S. Jeannette Guignard; Elisa Shepard – Journal of Interdisciplinary Teacher Leadership, 2023
In recent years, higher education enrollment has become increasingly diverse, particularly in online programs. Accordingly, institutions are increasingly aware of the importance of retaining these students and supporting them through successful degree/program completion. While there has been substantial declaration of the need for promoting…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Communities of Practice, Professional Development, Diversity
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Harald A. Mieg; Femi Odebiyi; Susanne Haberstroh – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2024
This article describes the initiative to establish a European network for undergraduate research (UR). This began with national initiatives in Germany and the United Kingdom, dating back 10 to 20 years. A strong impetus was given by the European project on digital UR (2021-2023), which also was a response to COVID-19 and extended the possibilities…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Student Research, Inquiry, International Cooperation
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Adria Katka; Cherise Moore; Marcela Movit; Michelle Perry; Sudie Whalen – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2023
The importance of professional development to the success of adult education cannot be emphasized enough. In a field with many part-time educators, and where recruitment and retention of adult educators is an ongoing challenge, professional development plays a critical role in attracting, retaining, and developing teachers, administrators, and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Electronic Learning, Technical Assistance, Communities of Practice
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Fabbri, Loretta; Rossi, Pier Giuseppe; Giannandrea, Lorella; Romano, Alessandra – Research on Education and Media, 2023
The contribution describes a study on the organizational devices and the professional development programs carried out at the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) of the University of Siena and at the Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) of the University of Macerata. The focus is on systemic actions capable to elicit innovation at an organizational…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Curriculum Study Centers, Faculty Development, Electronic Learning
Jeremy Roschelle; Adam Schellinger – Digital Promise, 2024
SEERNet digital learning platforms (DLPs) are developing new infrastructure to support research in authentic contexts where student learning is happening. In order to contextualize this work within the larger field, we trace historical precedents along four main categories: data repositories, data collection services, research design interfaces,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Data Collection, Research Design, Communities of Practice
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Sarah Haavind – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
According to the Next Generation Science Standards, three-dimensional teaching challenges educators to adopt an inquiry approach through science and engineering practices aligned with disciplinary core ideas and crosscutting concepts. Few teachers today feel confident in their ability to orchestrate such lessons. Teaching inquiry science takes…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Academic Standards, Inquiry, Educational Practices
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Xin Zhao; Colin Derek McClure – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
The use of virtual learning communities has shown great potential for language education. Research suggests that video-conferencing technology can assist teachers in creating such communities for second-language teaching. Gather.Town is a gamified, video-conferencing platform that revolutionizes the traditional static video-conferencing experience…
Descriptors: Gamification, Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning, Second Language Learning
Gudrun Nyunt; Elizabeth Niehaus; Ashley Light; Alex Boryca; Angela Bryan – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2023
Virtual exchanges (VEs) are course-based experiences designed to promote global learning, often by integrating cross-cultural interactions and collaborations with people from other areas of the world into coursework in a virtual format. Due to the widespread disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, VEs have seen an increase in popularity. However,…
Descriptors: Global Education, Multicultural Education, Intergroup Relations, Electronic Learning
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Minul Doluweera; Kiriheneappuhamilage Don Harindu Kusaljith Kirihene; Neluwa-Liyanage Ruwan Indika; Channa Nirmal Sirisena; Asel Helitha Jatunarachchi; Uthkarsha Chandrasena; Senumi Gihansa Dharmadasa; Amali Samaranayake; Vonara Gatharie Devendra; Vinudi Nimethma Edirisinghe; Thusharie Sugandhika Suresh; Sharmila Jayasena; Gracia Fe Budoy Yu; Crist John Pastor; Tharanga Thoradeniya – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
The Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB) and the College of Biochemists of Sri Lanka (CBSL) organized a virtual education symposium in 2021 funded by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB). The parallel session named "Students' Perception" was attended by 188…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Electronic Learning, Science Education, STEM Education
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Anna R. Oliveri; Jeffrey Paul Carpenter – Information and Learning Sciences, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this conceptual paper is to describe how the affinity space concept has been used to frame learning via social media, and call for and discuss a refresh of the affinity space concept to accommodate changes in social media platforms and algorithms. Design/methodology/approach: Guided by a sociocultural perspective, this…
Descriptors: Social Media, Learning Strategies, Algorithms, Informal Education
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Hanell, Fredrik; Severson, Pernilla Jonsson – Education for Information, 2023
As a part of the DiMPAH-project, the authors have developed an open educational resource (OER) on netnography. In this paper, the OER is presented and critically discussed as the broader problem identified during course-development is made explicit and explored through two research questions: 1) How can an OER be designed that positions…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Ethnography, Educational Technology, Humanities
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Christian Dalsgaard; Thomas Ryberg – Research in Learning Technology, 2023
The paper presents a theoretical framework of four digital learning spaces: Individual space, Working group, Community of interest, and Open connections. The theoretical framework aims to highlight the unique potentials of digital technologies to expand learning activities. More specifically, the framework contributes with descriptions of specific…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Independent Study
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Kimber L. Wilkerson; Rebekka Olsen; Melinda M. Leko; Andrea Ruppar; Rui Dai – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2025
The article describes a promising new, fully virtual, multicomponent professional development intervention to support special education teachers in rural U.S. schools who enter the profession without full state licensure. The intervention seeks to strengthen special educators' self-efficacy in relation to classroom and behavior management, and…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Special Education, Special Education Teachers
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