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Wu, Dan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is a successful educational movement initiated in the US in the 1970s to promote better teaching and learning. It has developed to incorporate writing, speaking, digital educational technologies, and other communication modalities in the past several decades. WAC initiatives have now been successfully…
Descriptors: Expertise, Higher Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, Foreign Countries
Ivins, Tiffany Zenith – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation examines localization of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Himalayan community technology centers of Nepal. Specifically, I examine strategies and practices that local knowledge-workers utilize in order to localize educational content for the disparate needs, interests, and ability-levels of learners in rural villages. This…
Descriptors: Rural Population, Indigenous Knowledge, Focus Groups, Ethnography