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Huber, Elaine; Lê, Ngoc Chi; Nguyen, Thi-Huyen; Wall, Tony – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: Digital technologies can enable engagement online as well as in physical infrastructures like large lecture theatres. Avoiding a tech-first approach to curriculum design, this article reviews a key resource for the use of a pedagogy-first, co-design approach in a specific instance of developing curriculum for connected learning at scale.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Blended Learning, Cooperative Learning, Design
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Boyd, Evelyn A.; Olsen, Taimi; Trogden, Bridget G. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2023
This chapter focuses on intentional educational development activities designed to prepare faculty for effective teaching and assessment of student learning. Some benefits of such activities include improved alignment of courses with programmatic outcomes, higher success rates in course reviews, and better demonstration of student learning on…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation, Teacher Competencies
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Ailie McDowall; Dianna Hardy; Vincent Backhaus; Kyly Mills; Felecia Watkin Lui – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2023
Indigenous studies has come a long way. In this paper, we share some bold steps we have taken to develop a learning process that situates Indigenous people as a people of place, a people of knowledge and a people of science. This teaching disengages students from learning about Indigenous people as remnants of the past. We extend earlier…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Intellectual Disciplines, Learning Processes, Indigenous Populations
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Yeo, Michelle; Boman, Jennifer; Mooney, Julie A.; Phillipson, Andrea; dos Santos, Luciana da Rosa; Smith, Erika E. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2019
This paper describes the development of a three-phase approach our team of educational developers finds useful in curriculum projects in our Teaching and Learning Centre. Informed by the literature on the importance of flexibility and iteration (Knight, 2001; Wolf, 2007) and an orientation towards Appreciative Inquiry (Srivastra & Cooperrider,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Vignettes, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
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Sun, Jun; Wu, Youde; Luo, Huasong; Pan, Yujun; Lei, Xiangyang – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
By extracting information from various original materials and using geography departments, curricula, and faculty as indicators, this paper contributes to the discussion of the development of geography in higher education in China from 1904 to 1949. Four mutual connections are outlined. First, the development of geography in higher education is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Geography Instruction, College Curriculum
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Yao, Jian-Xin; Guo, Yu-Ying – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
China initiated a new round of science curriculum reform in 2017. Using the tripartite curriculum framework (including policy, programmatic, and classroom curriculum), we introduce and analyse China's policy curriculum and programmatic curriculum for science in primary school and senior high school, and describe the potential problems hindering…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Competence, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
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McKenna, Sioux; Hlengwa, Amanda; Quinn, Lynn; Vorster, Jo-Anne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Much academic development work, whether it be student, academic staff, institutional or curriculum development, is undertaken from an affirmative rather than a transformative approach (Luckett, L., and S. Shay. 2020. "Reframing the Curriculum: A Transformative Approach." "Critical Studies in Education" 61 (1): 50-65). To be…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Transformative Learning
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; González-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Díaz, Josefina; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Gutiérrez-Cardenas, Sandra-Milena; Álvarez, María-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquín; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Morfín, María; Álvarez, Miguel; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
The policy of reorganising schools in pedagogical cycles has been restored little by little in the state schools of the city of Bogota. This reform began in the year 2008 in Codema College, which faced a number of challenges, personal as much as institutional. The reform depended upon the participation and engagement of the educational community…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Practices
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Moya, Beatriz; Turra, Héctor; Chalmers, Denise – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
This article describes the development of an evaluation and impact framework to assess the effectiveness of educational innovations. It can be utilized within a single program, as well as at institutional and national levels. While it is contextualized in a Chilean university, it is argued that it is widely applicable as it is informed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Higher Education, Educational Innovation
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Pring, Richard – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2016
The paper traces the development of citizenship in the curriculum in England since the 1960s, emerging particularly from the Crick report. It argues for lessons to be learnt from John Dewey's "Democracy and education", the centenary of which is being celebrated this year.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Educational Development, Curriculum Development
Baker, Colin – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2016
This paper details the lived experience of the author as an education consultant from the mainstream of Australian education, attempting to assist a remote Aboriginal corporation establish its own secondary school, in its own cultural context on its own land. It is about the experience of an Anglo Australian servant of an Aboriginal corporation.…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Corporations, Secondary Schools
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Most, Rachel; Wellmon, Chad – Journal of General Education, 2015
The focus of this essay is to examine how general education requirements and advising are connected in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia. To do this, we begin with a brief description and history of general education requirements. We move next to a description of the advising system and general education requirements…
Descriptors: General Education, Essays, Degree Requirements, Academic Advising
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Stedrak, Luke J.; Rose, Amanda L. – Educational Considerations, 2015
With the advent and growth of elementary and secondary online education in the United States, teaching and learning has undergone radical change with unimagined alternatives to traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms, and online education is here to stay. Law and policy in some states has lagged behind the emergence of online K-12 education. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, State Policy
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Kennedy, Kristin; Schumacher, Phyllis – PRIMUS, 2014
Bryant University was originally a school for business majors and offered only a few mathematics courses. After becoming accredited by the New England Association of Colleges and Universities in the 1960s, the college was required to upgrade its offerings in the area of mathematics. In the 1970s, the department offerings were increased to include…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Risk Assessment, Educational Development, Educational History
Supovitz, Jonathan – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2015
The flat structure of American schools is ill-suited to meet today's increasing demands for educational improvement. Even with unprecedented pressure to raise performance, America's schools are still largely organized the way they were a century ago--with a single principal presiding over a largely egg-crated faculty. Is such a thin veneer of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Administration, Administrator Education, Administrator Responsibility
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