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Bond, Paul – Education for Information, 2016
This case study describes several courses that resulted from a teaching partnership between an instructional technologist/professor and a librarian that evolved over several semesters, and the information literacy implications of the course formats. In order to increase student engagement, active learning and inquiry-based learning techniques were…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Centered Learning, Case Studies, Partnerships in Education
Fain, Nusa; Kline, Miro – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
Changes in the business environment, responses of companies to these changes and the available information and communication technologies (ICT) pose a number of challenges to present and future product developers, as well as to educational institutions. An appropriate response to these challenges is to create a solid basis for strategies to combat…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
Lui, Gladie; Shum, Connie – Journal of Case Studies in Accreditation and Assessment, 2012
Although Outcome-based Education has not been successful in public education in several countries, it has been successful in the medical fields in higher education in the U.S. The author implemented OBE in her Managerial Accounting course in H.K. Intended learning outcomes were mapped again Bloom's Cognitive Domain. Teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Business Administration Education, Outcome Based Education
Luo, Yupeng; Crask, Lloyd; Dyson, Arthur; Zoghi, Manoochehr; Hyatt, Brad – Metropolitan Universities, 2011
Poverty has caused enormous pressures and urgent needs in the city of Fresno. In an effort to incorporate a deep awareness of social, cultural, and environmental needs of the Fresno area in engineering and design education, a pilot design-build program entitled Eco-village at California State University, Fresno, has been established. Students from…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Service Learning, Best Practices, Partnerships in Education
Witherow, D. Scott; Carson, Sue – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2011
The study of protein-protein interactions is important to scientists in a wide range of disciplines. We present here the assessment of a lab-intensive course that teaches students techniques used to identify and further study protein-protein interactions. One of the unique elements of the course is that students perform a yeast two-hybrid screen…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Laboratory Training, Molecular Structure, Course Descriptions
Nowacki, Amy S. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2011
The study presents and applies the 4MAT theoretical framework to educational planning to transform a biostatistics course into a problem-based learning experience. Using a four-question approach, described are specific activities/materials utilized at both the class and course levels. Two web-based instruments collected data regarding student…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Problem Based Learning, Learning Experience, Teaching Methods
Kan, Koon Hwee – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2011
Based on a series of videoconferences held between two universities, one located in China and another in the United States, this pilot curriculum study illustrates how successful interglobal communication via synchronized educational technology requires detailed planning and the use of a substantial number of pedagogical strategies. Achieving the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Videoconferencing, Computer Mediated Communication
Graziano, Kevin J.; Navarrete, Lori A. – Issues in Teacher Education, 2012
The call for reform of teacher preparation programs by Arne Duncan (2009), U.S. Secretary of Education, has the potential to be the catalyst for a re-emergence of co-teaching in higher education. Duncan argues for the need to implement innovative preservice teacher education strategies that will result in an increase in K-12 student achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Preservice Teacher Education, Language Acquisition, Educational Change
Hampton, Nan Zhang; Olney, Marjorie F. – Rehabilitation Education, 2008
In 2007, we offered an innovative blended graduate level rehabilitation counseling course. The course was delivered online and in Hong Kong. It included readings, PowerPoint presentations and discussion board features on Blackboard, as well as face-to-face lectures and guest speakers in a classroom context at the City University of Hong Kong.…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Instructional Innovation, Foreign Countries
Schmidt, Sascha L.; Richter, Ansgar – Journal of Education for Business, 2006
In this article, the authors introduce 3 different course formats for teaching management consulting at the university. On the basis of data from self-evaluation questionnaires from 159 students, the authors analyze effectiveness of these course designs in raising the self-confidence of participants to cope with the kind of tasks typically faced…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Consultants, Course Organization, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Holland, Leigh – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2004
This paper investigates how one course--a final year undergraduate module--has been developed and implemented to inform students about corporate social responsibility from an accounting perspective. It takes as its core the notion of accounting and accountability, and is delivered by accounting lecturers to business students following a range of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Responsibility, Accounting, Accountability
Allen-Gil, Susan; Walker, Liz; Thomas, Garry; Shevory, Tom; Elan, Shapiro – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2005
Purpose: To provide an example of how colleges can partner with local EcoVillages to further sustainability curriculum on campus and the educational mission of the EcoVillages, and to strengthen ties with the community. Design/methodology/approach: Describes four structured courses developed for the Environmental Studies Program, including…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Outreach Programs, Community Coordination, Community Involvement
Chen, David; Nachmias, Rafi – 1984
An introductory computer literacy curriculum for teachers and administrators developed by the Science Teaching Centre of the Department of Education at Tel Aviv University covered four major topics: (1) The Information Society; (2) Computer Aided Learning; (3) Computer Languages and Education; and (4) Implementation of Computers in Schools--A…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Course Descriptions