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Thérèse Zhang – European University Association, 2025
Staff development in teaching is an important driver of efforts to further enhance learning and teaching (L&T) at European higher education institutions. Indeed, several previous European University Association activities and projects have recommended enhanced efforts to offer adequate (continued) professional development to higher education…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Universities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Huang, Wenyeh; Ho, Jonathan C. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Considering a company's limited time and resources, an effective training method that improves employees' ability to make ethical decision is needed. Based on social cognitive theory, this study proposes that employing games in an ethics training program can help improve moral reasoning through actively engaging learners. The experimental design…
Descriptors: College Students, Moral Values, Thinking Skills, Learning Strategies
White, Paul J.; Larson, Ian; Styles, Kim; Yuriev, Elizabeth; Evans, Darrell R.; Rangachari, P. K.; Short, Jennifer L.; Exintaris, Betty; Malone, Daniel T.; Davie, Briana; Eise, Nicole; Mc Namara, Kevin; Naidu, Somaiya – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
The conventional lecture has significant limitations in the higher education context, often leading to a passive learning experience for students. This paper reports a process of transforming teaching and learning with active learning strategies in a research-intensive educational context across a faculty of 45 academic staff and more than 1,000…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Research Universities, Learning Strategies
Westerberg, Kristina; Hjelte, Jan – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
During a number of years Swedish municipalities have work with improvement of competence and long-term quality in elderly care. The overall aim of the present study was to compare different learning activities (workplace improvement and/or courses), and to relate these activities to learning climate, learning strategies, and perception of care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Older Adults, Comparative Analysis
Passonneau, Sarah; Coffey, Dan – College & Research Libraries, 2011
Electronic communication technologies continue to change the landscape of reference services. For many users, virtual communication is the preferred means of conversing. Synchronous virtual reference, similar to other synchronous means of communication, is an important method for reaching students and for providing teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Online Systems, Reference Services, Grounded Theory
Speziale, Jennifer; Black, Ed; Coatsworth-Puspoky, Robin; Ross, Tom; O'Regan, Tony – Gerontologist, 2009
Purpose: The Gentle Persuasive Approaches (GPA) curriculum was developed as an adjunct to other educational initiatives that were part of Ontario, Canada's Alzheimer Strategy. GPA emphasizes that an individual's unique personal history has a direct application to the interpretation of and response to their behavior. It incorporates strategies into…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Program Evaluation, Aggression, Dementia
Sung, Dia; You, Yeongmahn; Song, Ji Hoon – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this research is to explore the possibility of viable learning organizations based on identifying viable organizational learning mechanisms. Two theoretical foundations, complex system theory and viable system theory, have been integrated to provide the rationale for building the sustainable organizational learning mechanism. The…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Systems Approach, Adjustment (to Environment), Human Resources
Erickson, Frederick – 1986
This paper sets forth implications for staff development of a social constructivist perspective on school teaching, learning, and subject matter. The perspective is illustrated by an overview of the research-centered staff development work done in the beginning months of the Teachers' Conceptual Change in Practice Project. In the first half of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Learning Strategies

de Vries, Linda; And Others – Distance Education, 1995
Reports on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a teleseminar on instructional design and computer-mediated communication (CMC) at the University of Southern Queensland (Toowoomba, Australia). Results show that CMC was a viable medium for professional development, that moderation of strategies influenced the nature of contributions, and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Strategies, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design

Neufeld, Barbara – Urban Education, 1997
What urban middle school principals engaged in school reform felt they needed to know and the strategies that maximize their learning were studied with 23 principals involved in extended professional development. Principals valued the components of staff development that have been supported by the National Staff Development Council. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Change, Learning Strategies, Middle Schools
Craney, Thomas J. – 1989
The practicum was designed to establish a staff development program to help teachers to systematically employ whole-brain and responsive instructional approaches with "at risk" students and to provide the theoretical/conceptual, practical, and experiential knowledge base necessary for program development incorporating cognitive styles.…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, High Risk Students
Brown, Don; Thomson, Charlotte – 1994
Since the restructuring of education in New Zealand in 1989, a new curriculum framework has been developed. This framework emphasizes the thinking, problem-solving, and group skills processes. This paper traces the growth of a strategic approach to teaching and learning in New Zealand, with a focus on cooperative learning. It describes findings of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, High Schools, Instructional Improvement
Silins, Halia – 2000
The National Staff Development Committee of the Vocational Education and Training Sector in Australia is promoting action learning as a preferred professional development strategy to support the implementation of key competencies. Action learning was piloted across five training areas within the Department of Employment, Training, and Further…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Developed Nations
Survey of Basic Skills Remediation Practices in JTPA Youth Programs. Monograph Series Vol. 2, No. 1.
Center for Remediation Design, Washington, DC. – 1988
The Center for Remediation Design and Brandeis University (Massachusetts) conducted a series of telephone interviews to develop a manual of assessment for Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) youth programs. These interviews were conducted with youth planners in each service delivery area during August 1987. The goal of this project was to explore…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attendance, Basic Skills, Incentives
Howley-Rowe, Caitlin – 2000
This case study examines the impact Quest made at Xavier Senior High School, a large secondary public school located in a northern Virginia suburb. Approximately 62 percent of the student body are identified as white, while the remainder are African-American (20 percent), Hispanic (10 percent), and Asian/Pacific Islander (5 percent). A variety of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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