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Heath, Jenna; Dagri, Erika – About Campus, 2022
Peer mentoring programs have repeatedly shown that peer-to-peer support is a vital part of the transition process for new college students. Sometimes, what a student needs most in those imperative years is someone who can identify with them and provide the advice needed to get them to the finish line. In August 2019, the University of Nevada, Las…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Mentors, Pilot Projects, Learner Engagement
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Farina Asche; Susan Plawecki – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
With the renovation of the building and the redesign of the Wien Museum's (the City Museum of Vienna) permanent exhibition, the Nazi period is now finally being told as part of the city's history after decades of neglect. The education department was thus faced with the task of including these important and multifaceted topics in our educational…
Descriptors: Crime, War, Death, Jews
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Wright, Kathryn; Ball, Justine; Clinton, Claire; Moss, Fiona; Pawson, Ed; Whittle, Sean – Journal of Religious Education, 2021
We present the process, collaborative management, and impact of a pilot leadership programme created to help teachers of Religion and Worldviews (R&W) (We are using the phrase 'religion and worldviews' to reflect a change in approach advocated in the Commission on RE (2018). We use the abbreviation R&W throughout. We acknowledge and accept…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Leadership Training, Religious Education, World Views
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Wang, Jianli; Qin, Limin Tony – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2022
This paper reports on a pilot course responding to facilitating academic writing for an academic writing program implemented at a provincial key university in China. Taken from an activity theoretical perspective, it discusses the practical experience collected during a pilot process of designing, implementing, and assessing a genre-based approach…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing Evaluation, Graduate Students, English for Academic Purposes
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Brand, Jamie C.; Radel, Claudia; Brain, Roslynn; Greene, Jack – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2014
We describe experience with a pilot week-long, No-Child-Left-Inside (NCLI), outdoor program implemented in Cache Valley, Utah, in 2012. Through response analysis of a "pre-then-post" children's survey and a parent-completed demographic survey, we assess program effectiveness in raising children's enthusiasm for nature-related behaviors…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Program Development, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
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Barzanò, Giovanna; Grimaldi, Emiliano – Journal of Education Policy, 2013
Italy is well known for its difficulty in introducing any educational evaluation system. This paper explores the dynamics which occurred in Italy in 2010-2011, within the context of the umpteenth national pilot of school and staff evaluation. Our research object is an unfinished project, observed in its development. We get close to the struggles…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Merit Rating, Policy Analysis
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Bloodworth, Mike – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2014
During my first year of practice as a new action learning facilitator undertaking an "ILM Level 5 Certificate in Action Learning Facilitation", an innovative Individual Service Fund pilot was launched by "Certitude", the organisation for which I work. The aim of this pilot was to enable people with learning disabilities and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Facilitators (Individuals), Phenomenology, Program Descriptions
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Higher Education Management and Policy, 2010
"System accreditation" is a new approach developed for German universities to conduct the mandatory accreditation of all their study programmes. A pilot project at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz is playing an important role in paving the way for this alternative to prevailing programme accreditation. This article describes how…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Academic Achievement, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
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Sun, Daner; Looi, Chee-Kit – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2013
The paper traces a research process in the design and development of a science learning environment called WiMVT (web-based inquirer with modeling and visualization technology). The WiMVT system is designed to help secondary school students build a sophisticated understanding of scientific conceptions, and the science inquiry process, as well as…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Computer System Design, Educational Technology, Secondary School Students
Baker, Stephen; Lockaby, Tracey; Guterman, Kai; Klumpner, Susan – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2011
This report describes the first year implementation of a new professional development program, Palm Beach County Afterschool Educator Certificate (PBC-AEC). Set within a larger systemic quality improvement effort in Palm Beach County, this training seeks to provide a concentrated course of learning, practice, and reflection. The training seeks to…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Professional Development, After School Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Brodahl, Cornelia; Oftedahl, Heidi – International Journal on E-Learning, 2012
This study investigated outsourcing of the development of visual, animated and interactive learning objects for mathematics education by a Norwegian university to software vendors in China. It sought to understand the challenges in this outsourcing engagement and competences needed to meet the challenges. The authors tested outsourcing strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Systems Development, Multimedia Instruction, Computer Games
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Husting, Sheila; Intili, Jo Ann; Kissam, Edward – Convergence, 2008
As post-Taliban Afghanistan moves toward the establishment of a viable educational system, key stakeholders and donors are faced with the formidable challenge of how to most rapidly implement teacher training within an environment of diverse, changing, and largely unassessed training needs. The current article explores the dilemmas inherent in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Needs Assessment, Foreign Countries
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Xin, Ding; Jian, Niu; Yanhui, Han – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Distance education is among the significant fields for the application of educational technology. Distance education in China has gone through three phases, namely: correspondence-based education, radio and TV-based education and online education. This paper was based on educational technology application, and the historical, dialectic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Comparative Analysis, Scientific Research
Goodman, Rachael D.; West-Olatunji, Cirecie – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this paper is to present recommendations for conducting outreach in order to further the efforts in the counseling field towards social justice and advocacy. Informed by Freire's (2000) critical consciousness theory, examples of culturally centered counseling services are presented as outcomes of the experiences of participants.…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Counseling Services, Advocacy, Justice
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Shohel, M. Mahruf C.; Power, Tom – Open Learning, 2010
This paper reviews the themes emerging from Bangladeshi teachers' experiences of taking part in the initial research and the development stage of a professional development programme they were involved with. The Secondary Teaching and Learning Programme is an information and communications technologies-enhanced supported open distance learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Educational Development, Developing Nations
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