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Deborah Hanuscin; Emily Borda; Josie Melton; Jamie N. Mikeska – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Research on teacher educators' professional learning has gained increasing interest within science education. Curriculum materials have been suggested as a means of supporting "teacher" learning for several decades but have not yet been examined as a potential tool for supporting the learning of "teacher educators." In this…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Instructional Materials, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers
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Park, Eun Jeong – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
This paper addresses the conceptions of needs analysis and mixed-methods research, and the affordances and challenges of mixed methods needs analysis in implementing ESP courses. Language researchers and educators maintain that a lack of identifying students' needs hampers the development and improvement of English language education in ESP. ESP…
Descriptors: Affordances, Needs Assessment, Mixed Methods Research, Curriculum Development
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Irene Drymiotou; Costas P. Constantinou; Lucy Avraamidou – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
Our purpose in this paper is to shed light on the intricacies of designing and enacting curricular innovations aiming to enhance students' interest in science and their understandings of STEM careers. We present the design and describe the implementation of a set of STEM career-oriented curriculum materials referred to as career-based scenarios. A…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Interests, Vocational Interests, Career Choice
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Undergraduate students majoring in Islamic Studies in Saudi Arabia need to take an English-for-Specific-Purposes (ESP) course each year of the B.A. program. The material for all four courses was developed in-house by a group of instructors at those colleges. A review of the course material, particularly reading texts, showed many inadequacies. It…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Semitic Languages, Translation, Vocabulary Development
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Houston, Leonia – Journal of Educators Online, 2018
Many learners who have not chosen to identify as having physical, sensory, and learning disabilities still may struggle to learn in the online learning environment due to diverse abilities and backgrounds, differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and other factors that affect perception, learning ability, and engagement. Given the apparent…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Access to Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Gotti, Maurizio; Salager-Meyer, Françoise – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Since the existence of human society, medicine has always occupied a prominent place in all cultures and periods because it represents a common concern for all human beings: their health and lives. Medicine is a science and an art. The science is the evidential basis for solving clinical problems, and the art is the application of this medical…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, English for Special Purposes
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Smith, Kathleen R.; Apple, Laurie; Souhtward, Leigh – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2014
Guided by the five cross-cutting themes of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) Body of Knowledge (BOK) two capstone courses (C[superscript 2]) in Apparel Studies were designed to help prepare students for careers, further study, or both.
Descriptors: Clothing, Consumer Science, Family Programs, Curriculum Design
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Thompson, Douglas Earl – General Music Today, 2013
This article presents a recipe for making attractive, informative tutorials that can be sent to students and parents via e-mail or posted on a school website. Although tutorials are often included with software, many are either too complex or too rudimentary to directly address music educators’ unique needs. The recipe focuses on the following…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Music Education, Educational Needs, Video Technology
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Carmel, Justin H.; Jessa, Yasmin; Yezierski, Ellen J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
A liberal education curriculum requires discipline-specific courses that develop intellectual and practical skills. With this promise of development, it is crucial that instruction focuses on content knowledge as well as the thinking patterns associated with the content. In chemistry, scientific reasoning is one such skill that students should…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Science Education, College Science, Chemistry
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Fiegel, Gregg L. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2013
The article describes the process of incorporating a set of learning outcomes into a geotechnical engineering course. The outcomes were developed using Bloom's taxonomy and define the knowledge, skills, and abilities the students are expected to achieve upon completion of the course. Each outcome begins with an action-oriented verb corresponding…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Engineering Education, Behavioral Objectives, Program Descriptions
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Crossman, Katie; Pinchbeck, Geoffrey – TESL Canada Journal, 2012
Immigrants and the children of immigrants who have completed their schooling in Canadian school settings, commonly referred to as Generation 1.5, are increasingly identified in the research literature as academically at risk due to inadequately developed academic language proficiency and learning strategies. This article describes the design,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Intensive Language Courses, Curriculum Design
Confrey, Jere; Krupa, Erin – Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum, 2010
In June 2010, the National Governor's Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers published "Common Core State Standards" (CCSS) for K-12 mathematics. Forty-eight states collaborated in the development of CCSS and, to date, 34 states have officially adopted CCSS to replace existing state standards. CCSS presents an opportunity for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, State Standards
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Howell, Robert T. – Tech Directions, 2007
Many teachers find developing a new lesson or course quite difficult. It would be nice to have all necessary information, lesson plans and assessment materials ready at hand. But most often, they find themselves on their own when it comes to lesson and course development. The author faced this situation when he was asked to develop a lesson on…
Descriptors: Fuels, Industrial Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Crookall, David – Simulation/Games for Learning, 1991
Describes a semester-long simulation based on experiential learning called CO-MADE, which was developed to train teachers in syllabus design and instructional materials development. Simulation design is discussed, and use of the simulation in a postgraduate training program for students wishing to become teachers of English to speakers of other…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, English (Second Language), Experiential Learning, Graduate Study
International Telecommunication Union, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1978
This pamphlet produced by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) outlines the development and progress of a project designed to develop a model for vocational training in telecommunications. The Course Development in Telecommunications (CODEVTEL) approach is discussed in terms of job-related training, teaching materials, sharing…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Design, Material Development, Models
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