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Designing Policies for Flexible Learning Pathways in Higher Education: Self-Assessment Guidelines for Policy Makers and Planners
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Michaela Martin; Uliana Furiv – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2024
These guidelines set out the key policy aspects for creating an effective ecosystem for flexible learning pathways (FLPs). They include examples of good practice from various countries and can be used by a wide range of actors including government officials, education stakeholders, and organizations supporting implementation of higher education…
Descriptors: Flexible Progression, Guided Pathways, Ecology, Public Officials
Implementation of a National Teacher Education Strategy in Finland through Pilot Projects
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Lavonen, Jari; Mahlamäki-Kultanen, Seija; Vahtivuori-Hänninen, Sanna; Mikkola, Armi – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
The implementation of a teacher education strategy in a decentralised Finnish education system is analysed. Altogether, 31 pilot projects, involving teacher educators from all universities, were funded to support the implementation of the strategy and professional learning of autonomous teacher educators in the context of the strategy. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Strategies
Challenging Interest Alignment: Frame Analytic Perspective on Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Context
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Niska, Miira – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Entrepreneurship promotion in higher education is a highly controversial issue. Yet entrepreneurship education is nowadays part of the education system all over Europe. In order to be legitimate, entrepreneurship education implemented in higher education institutions is expected to serve multiple stakeholders, among them society, students and…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Universities
Reception of the Quality Assurance Commitments of the Bologna Process in Finnish Higher Education Institutions
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Ala-Va¨ha¨la¨, Timo – Quality in Higher Education, 2016
This article analyses Finnish higher education institutions' reception of the implementation of the new quality assurance systems that governments participating in the Bologna Process have committed to establishing in the Berlin Communique´ of 2003. The data were collected using a web survey and the respondents were classified with a cluster…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, International Cooperation
Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies into Face-to-Face PBL to Support Producing, Storing, and Sharing Content in a Higher Education Course
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Virtanen, Jaana; Rasi, Päivi – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2016
In this article we present and discuss the process of developing and implementing a PBL-based course entitled Moving Images in Teaching and Learning that was held at the University of Lapland, Finland. In the course of the project, this fairly traditional face-to-face course was redesigned into a blended PBL course by integrating Web 2.0…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Web 2.0 Technologies, Conventional Instruction, Problem Based Learning
PIAAC Technical Standards and Guidelines
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OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence