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Michael Wrentschur; Gert Dressel; Katharina Heimerl; Lisa Hofer; Klaus Wegleitner – Educational Action Research, 2025
This article addresses the question of how theatre interventions as elements of a participatory and action-oriented research design can contribute to justice-oriented Caring Community processes. Caring Communities are local initiatives that strengthen everyday solidarity through civic engagement and neighbourhood support, link informal and formal…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Caring, Civics, Participatory Research
Jennifer Ash – Grantee Submission, 2022
In the Spring of 2019, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University launched the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN) with funding from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. This overview describes NCRERN's mission of expanding the use of evidence-based decision-making in…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, National Organizations, Rural Education, Educational Research
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E. Anne York – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Social media is becoming a more widely used tool to engage students in learning. LinkedIn (linkedin.com) is a professional social networking platform that most college students are encouraged to use, but it is not widely used as an educational tool. In this article, the author describes how LinkedIn was deployed in a principles course to teach…
Descriptors: Social Media, Economics Education, Social Networks, Teaching Methods
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Danielle L. Fettes; Virginia M. Hazen; Vivian Reznik; Deborah Wingard; JoAnn Trejo – Journal of Faculty Development, 2025
Faculty development across the academic career is essential to support successful, diverse, engaged faculty and institutional excellence. This article presents a comprehensive model of faculty development across all career stages, centering equity for women and historically underrepresented faculty. Four intersecting cornerstones comprise the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Equal Education, Minority Group Teachers, Mentors
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Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2023
The Region 15 Comprehensive Center (R15CC) is federally funded to provide high-impact, customized, and responsive capacity-building technical assistance to state educational agencies (SEAs) in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. In 2022, R15CC established a regional Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Collaborative for SEA leaders in…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Community Involvement, Capacity Building, State Departments of Education
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Silvagni, Federico; Moruno Lpez, Esther; Hubckov, Ema – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
This article presents an international telecollaboration programme called UniLingua, which was carried out between eight universities and university language centres during the 2020/2021 academic year. By promoting language exchanges, UniLingua aims to satisfy one of the most immediate academic needs of university students, which is to improve…
Descriptors: International Programs, Second Language Learning, Universities, Cooperative Learning
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Alžbeta Brozmanová Gregorová; Irene Culcasi; Milagros Ávila Olías; Aitor Arbaiza Valero – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2025
Service-learning (SL) is pivotal for institutionalizing university-- community engagement and achieving teaching and learning goals by addressing identified needs (Compare et al., 2023). This goal aligns with the European Commission's (2017) Agenda for Higher Education, prioritizing community engagement. SL in international collaboration offers…
Descriptors: Global Approach, International Education, Service Learning, Study Abroad
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Franz Rauch; Günther Pfaffenwimmer – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2019
This chapter describes networking for education for sustainable development within the Austrian ECOLOG-schools network. It discusses theoretical concepts of Education for Sustainable Development and school development from an Austrian perspective, as well as networks in education in general and the organization of the ECOLOG-network in particular.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Educational Development
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2019
The number of family child care (FCC) providers in the U.S. is declining at an alarming rate. From 2011 to 2017, there was a 35% decrease in FCC homes (National Center on Early Childhood Quality Assurance, 2019). Considering the substantial portion of child care that is represented in home-based child care (HBCC), a heightened level of concern is…
Descriptors: Child Care, Family Environment, Networks, Role
Sherer, David; Norman, Jon; Bryk, Anthony S.; Peurach, Donald J.; Vasudeva, Ash; McMahon, Kelly – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2020
Across the social sectors, a growing number of organizations are embracing continuous improvement approaches and organizing themselves as networks in order to attack complex problems. To succeed, networks must learn quickly by studying their own practices, continuously adapting to changing circumstances within their organizations and in the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Networks, Evidence, Integrated Activities
MDRC, 2018
This issue brief describes the programs and systems of the MDRC Center for Data Insights. Ranging from simple descriptive summaries to advanced machine learning algorithms, the Center's eight current projects aim to use institutions' increasingly rich data to provide new insights that can help refine and target their client's services: (1)…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, State Aid
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Conant, Donald D. – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The author's goals in this exercise were to use an Excel project to teach students about the effects of changing states of nature on critical path emergence as well as compare the impact of the PERT beta and triangular distributions on project completion times. Previous research into the PERT (program evaluation and review technique) beta…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Spreadsheets, Monte Carlo Methods, Program Evaluation
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O'Neill, Barbara – Journal of Extension, 2014
Twitter is increasingly being used by Extension educators as a teaching and program-marketing tool. It is not enough, however, to simply use Twitter to disseminate information. Steps must be taken to evaluate program impact with quantitative and qualitative data. This article described the following Twitter evaluation metrics: unique hashtags,…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Computer Mediated Communication, Extension Education, Cooperatives
Angelo, Denise; Disbray, Samantha; Singer, Ruth; O'Shannessy, Carmel; Simpson, Jane; Smith, Hilary; Meek, Barbra; Wigglesworth, Gillian – OECD Publishing, 2022
Indigenous peoples have rightful aspirations for their languages and cultures, supported under international conventions, jurisdictional treaties, laws, policies and enquiry recommendations. Additionally, the inclusion of Indigenous languages in education can impact positively on Indigenous students' learning, engagement, identity and well-being,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Academic Achievement, Educational Experience, Outcomes of Education
Keleher, Julia – National Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Neglected or Delinquent Children and Youth (NDTAC), 2017
In this professional development research brief, the author sets forth the overarching considerations that should be kept in mind when conceptualizing professional development for educators working with neglected or delinquent youth (N or D). The brief begins by defining professional development and demonstrating why it is a critical support for…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Delinquency, Child Neglect, Youth Programs
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