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Maranga, Jemar Jude A.; Matugas, Leilla Keith J.; Lim, Jorge Frederick W.; Romana, Cherry Lyn C. Sta. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
Teaching an introductory programming course to an average of 40 students while monitoring their performance can be a challenge for instructors. Preparing coding exercises with test cases and checking students' programs can prove to be time consuming at times. Moreover, programming has been known to be quite difficult for students to learn. To…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Programming Languages, Introductory Courses, Computer Science Education
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Macfarlane, Bruce; Chan, Roy Y. – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
The literature on leadership in higher education is focused mainly on senior academic leaders with managerial roles. It largely excludes informal and distributed forms of intellectual leadership offered by full professors among others. This article explores the concept of intellectual leadership using academic obituaries. A total of 63 obituaries…
Descriptors: Reputation, College Faculty, Instructional Leadership, Death
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Parrish, Juli; Hesse, Doug; Bateman, Geoffrey – Across the Disciplines, 2016
We explain how collaboratively assessing a writing-intensive general education capstone seminar constituted a high-impact practice for faculty development. Students at the University of Denver complete an Advanced Seminar taught by faculty across the curriculum. Topics and themes vary widely, as do types of assigned writing, making assessment an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Workshops, Seminars
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Nathan, Lisa P.; MacGougan, Alice; Shaffer, Elizabeth – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
Social networking tools offer opportunities for innovative, participative pedagogical practice within traditional institutional frameworks. However, tensions continue to develop within this space: between creativity and security, personal and professional identity, privacy and openness. We argue that iSchools are uniquely positioned to create…
Descriptors: Social Networks, School Policy, Educational Technology, Online Courses
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Persell, Caroline Hodges; Pfeiffer, Kathryn M.; Syed, Ali – Teaching Sociology, 2007
Sociologists have long reflected on what should be taught in sociology. In recent years, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) has produced several important publications on key principles and learning goals for the introductory course. However, little current work has systematically examined what peer-recognized leaders in the field…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Sociology, Content Analysis, Educational Research
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Abrami, Philip C.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Primary research on student ratings of instruction is reviewed, and questions about the validity of such ratings as measures of teacher effectiveness are explored using nomological coding of 43 validity studies to examine causes of variability in coefficients of validity. Deficiencies of prior analyses and research needs are identified. (SLD)
Descriptors: Coding, College Faculty, College Students, Generalization