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Ambler, Trudy; Solomonides, Ian; Smallridge, Andrew – Curriculum Journal, 2021
The first year in Higher Education (HE) is an international priority because of its importance to the retention of students. While initiatives to improve students' commencing experience continue to develop one area that has received limited consideration is the first-year curriculum. The aim of the research reported in this paper was to enhance…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Experience, Block Scheduling, College Curriculum
Ghapanchi, Amir Hossein; Purarjomandlangrudi, Afrooz; Miao, Yuan – Journal of Educators Online, 2023
Block mode of teaching, also called intensive mode of teaching, has received great recognition and interest from education sector. This mode of teaching is a compressed style of teaching in which classes are delivered in an intensive period of time. Block mode teaching has been found to have potential to enhance student performance. Although…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learning Management Systems, Student Attitudes, College Students
Paul Vare; Cathy Burch – Environmental Education Research, 2025
This study explores the way in which secondary schools can accommodate student-led, community-based pedagogies within the formal education system. The study identifies benefits and drawbacks associated with different strategies. Through such projects, students can develop their agentic power, that is, an ability to bring about change which is seen…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Community Education, Learner Controlled Instruction, Educational Strategies
James, Ted – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2023
Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and elsewhere were forced to react quickly and boldly when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in early 2020. The pandemic had unforeseen consequences, but it also created opportunities for new approaches to institutional systems and service delivery. This study evaluates the impact of the pandemic on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Registrars (School), Foreign Countries
Li, Xiuhan; Yang, Yuqin; Chu, Samuel Kai Wah; Zainuddin, Zamzami; Zhang, Yin – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Due to the challenges of all-round development, higher-education students are increasingly demanding more flexible learning that goes beyond the on-campus/online dichotomy. However, university students miss learning opportunities because of the conflict of time and space. Blended learning is an effective way to create more learning opportunities…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Tufford, Lea; Thieu, Vivian; Zhao, Rose; Jenney, Angelique – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2024
This study sought to respond to the increased number of mature students in social work education and the understudied topic of their experiences. The research deployed semi- structured interviews and thematic analysis to explore the benefits, challenges, and needs of mature students (N = 19) over the age of 30 in a Canadian Bachelor of Social Work…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Flexible Scheduling, Guidelines
Safsouf, Yassine; Mansouri, Khalifa; Poirier, Franck – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2020
Aim/Purpose: This study focuses on the learners' success toward learning management systems in higher education in Morocco and also proposes a theoretical model to better understand the determinants of learners' satisfaction, self-regulation and continuance intention to use these systems. For this purpose, variables which may have a positive or…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Metacognition, Student Attitudes, College Students
Gregory MacKinnon; Tyler MacLean – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2023
The pandemic of 2020 frequently necessitated that offshore school teachers continue their instruction of Chinese children in the online format rather than face-to-face back in China; a so-called emergency remote teaching response. A required change in pedagogy accompanied a range of challenges in an effort to offer quality education to English as…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Barriers
British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2021
Building on earlier quantitative BCCAT [British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer] research assessing number of credits required for graduation (2010, 2020), this study sought to use a qualitative analysis to explore the reasons why students collect more credits than required for their credential(s) and their general feelings towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, College Credits
Doyle, Antoinette; Li, Ling – SAGE Open, 2021
Family-focused early learning programs aim to assist parents in supporting their young children language and literacy development. This study examined program access and learning opportunities for diverse families across a wide range of community-based settings in one eastern Canadian province. As well, the study examined practitioners'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Access to Education, Community Programs
Bulat, Jennae; Dubeck, Margaret; Green, Paula; Harden, Karon; Henny, Catherine; Mattos, Mónika; Pflepsen, Alison; Robledo, Ana; Sitabkhan, Yasmin – RTI International, 2017
Over the past decade, RTI International has pursued the goal of quality, inclusive, differentiated early grade literacy instruction in nearly 30 early grade reading or early grade literacy programs in low- and middle-income (LMI) countries. Across our diverse portfolio, we have supported Ministries of Education (Ministries) in diverse contexts in…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Inclusion, Equal Education, Reading Instruction
Sánchez Solarte, Ana Clara; Obando Guerrero, Gabriel Vicente; Ibarra Santacruz, Diana – HOW, 2017
This article reports the results of a study whose goal was to determine the views of undergraduate students regarding the English as a foreign language courses they must take as a requirement for graduation at a public university in Colombia. One hundred and thirty students from 10 undergraduate programs were surveyed and their responses were…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Aktaruzzaman, Md; Plunkett, Margaret – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
Bangladesh Open University (BOU), the sole distributor of distance education (DE) in Bangladesh, is regarded as one of the mega universities in the world. Nonetheless, the institution faces numerous issues and challenges that revolve around not only its administrative and academic operations, but also the lack of acknowledgement of its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Community Attitudes, Distance Education
Butcher, John – Higher Education Academy, 2015
This research set out to investigate the part-time student experience of higher education across the United Kingdom, in the context of a well-publicised contraction in the sector, and increasing divergence between policies affecting part-time study in the four nations. In order to explore the part-time student experience in England, Scotland, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Part Time Students, College Students, Student Attitudes
Ní Fhloinn, Eabhnat; Bhaird, Ciarán Macan; Nolan, Brien – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2014
Many universities issue mathematical diagnostic tests to incoming first-year students, covering a range of the basic concepts with which they should be comfortable from secondary school. As far as many lecturers are concerned, the purpose of this test is to determine the students' mathematical knowledge on entry. It should also provide an early…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Education
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