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Lori Ann Mumpower – To Improve the Academy, 2025
The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) created a Small Teaching Challenge, leveraging department chairpersons to encourage faculty adoption of evidence-based, small teaching practices. Inspired by James Lang's "Small Teaching" (2016) and previous collaborations with department…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
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Rumana Rafique – Open Learning, 2024
The sudden transition to online teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic compelled teachers worldwide to develop the skills necessary to contend with online education and execute effective teaching. Whereas several studies have investigated the professional development opportunities provided by educational institutions during this time,…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, English Teachers
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Paola Pilonieta; Colleen E. Whittingham; Erin K. Washburn – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
By April 2020 public schools throughout the country closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On the brink of these turbulent times, we concluded a larger survey study describing first grade literacy instruction in February 2020. Having documented a year of pre-pandemic literacy instruction, we then reached out to the same participants to report on…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Reading Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Mallory A. Jackson; Mary Pat Wenderoth – To Improve the Academy, 2024
We sought to identify which aspects of our professional development program, the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate STEM Education (CAUSE), were most useful for the participants. CAUSE was designed to support STEM faculty as they implement evidence-based teaching practices. We interviewed six faculty participants (Fellows) to address…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
Rebecca S. H. Awuah – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many countries around the world are implementing changes to their systems of teacher education in an effort to improve the way teachers teach and how much children learn in school. This dissertation uses the case of Ghana to examine how a suite of ambitious reforms--including the upgrading of teacher education to university education, a new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational Change, Higher Education
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D'Andrea Martínez, Pamela; Peoples, Leah Q.; Martin, Jeremy – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2023
Research on Culturally Responsive Education (CRE) to date has mostly focused on identifying the aspects of education that already work for Black, Indigenous, and Students of Color. Building on this important literature base, this qualitative study examines the "implementation," rather than the "identification," of CRE…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Equal Education, Educational Theories, Teaching Methods
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Alharbi, Majed Abdullah; Albelihi, Hani Hamd – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
Writing across the curriculum (WAC) has been viewed as a movement that links several academic fields across various academic departments in different institutions. WAC has emerged as a powerful pedagogical tool for improving students' learning outcomes and critical thinking. While the practice of WAC as an independent learning unit is not formally…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Educational Change, College Faculty, Teaching Experience
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Jessica Erin Ray; Samantha Shields; Verity McInnis; Shweta Kailani; Kaitlyn N. Ross; Carlos Kevin Blanton – History Teacher, 2025
This article details an experiment with flipped/hybrid courses that was guided by questioning how history units across the nation's colleges and universities can curb enrollment decline, improve student experiences, and impart to students the value of studying history and why it should remain an essential part of college curricula. A team of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Academic Achievement, History Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Kevin Kester; Rira Seo; Nicki Gerstner – Journal of Peace Education, 2024
This study examines the contribution of university educators toward prefiguratively creating tomorrow today in the higher education classroom. Educators often teach for peace and social justice through a variety of normative pedagogical frameworks. Yet, this linkage of pedagogy and prefigurative politics in university classrooms is frequently…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Higher Education
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Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Prieto, Kaity; Rivera, Marcos D.; Folk, Amanda L. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
Based on 30 interviews with instructors who implemented affordable materials in their courses at a large research university, this study explored their motivations for using such resources, the processes they employed, and the extent to which the new course materials influenced teaching methods and perceived learning outcomes. Results suggest that…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Open Educational Resources, Outcomes of Education
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Ndlovu, Bongani Prince; Malcolm, Stephen Andrew – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
Topic-specific pedagogical content knowledge (TSPCK) enables teachers to transform pedagogically difficult content for specific science topics into forms more easily understood by learners. In science teaching, there is evidence pointing to poor learner performance in key chemistry topics such as stoichiometry. This paper reports on the changes in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Chemistry, Science Education
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Yin, Mingjuan – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The proliferation and increasing application of modern technology have led to the improvement of tactics used to teach to play guzheng, the Chinese national instrument. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of using MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) for this purpose to argue on the possibility of reforming guzheng instruction in…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Education, Professionalism, MOOCs
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Matt Bower; Jodie Torrington; Jennifer W. M. Lai; Peter Petocz; Mark Alfano – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
There has been widespread media commentary about the potential impact of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT on the Education field, but little examination at scale of how educators believe teaching and assessment should change as a result of generative AI. This mixed methods study examines the views of educators (n = 318) from…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Teacher Evaluation, Surveys, Computer Assisted Testing
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Mark Hofer; Adam Barger; Kelly Leffel; Katalin Wargo – To Improve the Academy, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to remote, blended, and online teaching and learning presented universities around the world with myriad challenges. This rapid shift into uncharted territory, however, also created an opportunity for faculty developers to lead exploration of new pedagogies, challenging teaching assumptions. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Communities of Practice, Educational Change, COVID-19
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Martin, Christie S.; Harbour, Kristin; Polly, Drew – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers worldwide to shift to emergency remote teaching (i.e., virtual teaching). As teachers return to their classrooms for in-person teaching, there is a need to examine how remote teaching influences teachers' instruction. This study examined teachers' use of digital technologies and specific mathematics activities…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Mathematics Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
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