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Direct linkNikirk, Martin – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
The "Millennial Generation" includes students enrolled in primary grades through high school. These students are also known as Digital Natives, Generation Why, the Net Generation, Generation Me, and i-Kids. The generation includes ages ranging from approximately 7 to 30. This is the generation who have always had technology integrated into their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Generational Differences, Media Literacy
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Download full textRadovan, Marko; Makovec, Danijela – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2015
In this research, we have examined the characteristics of university students' motivation and its connection with perceptions of the learning environment. Higher education teachers often find it challenging to decide how to organize their lectures and what instructional strategy they should use to be most effective. Therefore, we endeavoured to…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Educational Environment, Student Satisfaction, Student Attitudes
Kupczynski, Lori; Mundy, Marie-Anne; Ruiz, Alberto – Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the Community of Inquiry framework through an in-depth examination of learning comprised of teaching, social and cognitive presence in traditional versus cooperative online teaching at a community college. A total of 21 students participated in this study, with approximately 45% having taken…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Online Courses, Community Colleges
Choi, Ji Young; Dobbs-Oates, Jennifer – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This study examined the associations between four types of childcare quality (i.e. teacher-child closeness, frequency of math-related activities, and teacher education and experience) and preschoolers' residualised gain in math over the course of six months. Additionally, potential interactions between teacher-child closeness and other indicators…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mathematics Achievement, Child Care, Educational Quality
Hwu, Fenfang; Sun, Shuyan – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
The present study investigates the interaction between two types of explicit instructional approaches, deduction and explicit-induction, and the level of foreign language aptitude in the learning of grammar rules. Results indicate that on the whole the two equally explicit instructional approaches did not differentially affect learning…
Descriptors: Memory, Logical Thinking, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Language Aptitude
Konings, Karen D.; Brand-Gruwel, Saskia; van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G. – Educational Research, 2011
Background: The match between students' perceptions of a learning environment and their preferences about its design influences students' learning behaviour and by consequence the effectiveness of education. Therefore, the students' perspective deserves a more prominent place in the educational design process. Having an adequate picture of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Student Attitudes, Motivation, Foreign Countries
Mooney, Melody Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to examine the impacts of integrating new literacies practices into high school curriculum content classrooms. This study examined data collected through observations and semi-structured interviews conducted with four high school content curriculum teachers. Analysis of the data resulted in essential findings emerging…
Descriptors: Secondary School Curriculum, Data Collection, Observation, Semi Structured Interviews
Miliszewska, Iwona; Sztendur, Ewa M. – Australian Universities' Review, 2012
In view of the strong growth of transnational education programmes in Australian universities, there is growing interest in the experiences of students participating in such programmes. This article reports on the perceived student satisfaction with several aspects of their transnational programmes, including instructors, technology, and programme…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Participant Satisfaction
McDonald, Martha A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This mixed-methods study focused on the engagement of student veterans at a community college and sought to understand the factors that contribute to the involvement and success of student veterans at a California community college. Using a sequential explanatory design, the methodology involved written surveys and focus group interviews to…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Community Colleges, Focus Groups, Interviews
Liu, Bo – Online Submission, 2010
This paper describes the learning statuses of Asian students, and connects their individual learning status with their cultures, attitudes, histories, family relations, etc. It also focuses on a wide range of aspects as academic performances, learning attitudes, cultures, race relations, schoolings, learning strategies, obstacles, etc., thus…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Asians, Educational Attitudes
Fidalgo, Patricia; Thormann, Joan – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2012
The most productive learning experience for students whether online or in face-to-face classes can often be the interaction among students and with an instructor. Online teaching and Social Network Analysis (SNA) offer the opportunity to examine intellectual social networking and strategies that promotes student interaction which can enhance…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Experienced Teachers
Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
In this paper we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Keaster, Ric; Schlinker, William – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2009
Educators who enter administrator/leadership preparation programmes undergo an interesting transformation. They enter as teachers, thinking as teachers do, and they graduate as future administrators, thinking as administrators do. This enhanced, school-wide perspective provides a number of benefits to the teachers themselves, to their…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Certification, Administrator Education, Work Attitudes
McCluskey, Kerryn – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
With universities seeking to increase their enrolment of international students, and the increasingly diverse domestic market, it is not surprising that researchers' interest has turned to the impact of a diverse university population. The focus of this paper is a model that has been implemented to enable higher levels of achievement on the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Non English Speaking
Drouin, Michelle; Vartanian, Lesa Rae – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2010
In this study, face-to-face (FTF) and online students' (N = 198) feelings of and desire for sense of community (SOC) in their courses were compared. In support of previous research, FTF students felt more SOC than online students. However, overall, relatively few students (FTF or online) expressed desire for SOC. Additionally, regression analyses…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Characteristics, Interpersonal Relationship, Student Attitudes
