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Tremayne Simpson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Online teaching and learning has become a primary focal point for higher education administrators. Institutions have focused their strategic plans to maximize opportunities to grow their campuses, through distance education. A consistent issue that has surfaced with distance education initiatives is teacher preparation for online education. The…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Faculty Development, Transformative Learning, Adult Learning
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Basgier, Christopher; Simpson, Amber – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
The theory of threshold concepts has given faculty a powerful way to name foundational, but difficult, disciplinary concepts. However, there is no methodological consensus about the best ways to identify them. In this article, we introduce a phenomenographically-derived narrative framework for identifying stages of threshold concept acquisition.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, Fundamental Concepts, College Faculty
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Rodríguez-Jiménez, Rosa-María; Carmona, Manuel – Education Sciences, 2021
This article presents an exploratory and interpretative study on the development of self-reflection and self-knowledge in university teachers by an embodied experience. Dance Movement Therapy and Body-Mind Centering share the fundamentals of the paradigm of embodied cognition through a first-person full-body experience. Using these principles, a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Dance, Psychotherapy
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Hudson, Nancie J. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
This ethnographic research project examines a five-month diversity training program that 16 faculty participated in voluntarily at a university in the western United States. In addition to reviewing diversity issues and challenges in higher education, this article provides information about the program, describes my participant-observer…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Training, Cultural Pluralism
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Olcon, Katarzyna; Gilbert, Dorie J.; Pulliam, Rose M. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
Little of social work literature provides evidence of best teaching practices for preparing social work students to work with clients from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups. A systematic literature review was conducted to assess studies published in the United States during the 10-year period (2007-2016) that examined: (1) social work…
Descriptors: Social Work, Racial Factors, Ethnic Diversity, Best Practices
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Binda, Hilary; Weinberg, Jill; Maetzener, Nora; Rubin, Carolyn L. – Journal of Prison Education and Reentry, 2020
This qualitative study examines the immediate and lasting impact of liberal arts higher education in prison from the perspective of former college-in-prison students from the Northeastern United States. Findings obtained through semi-structured interviews with formerly incarcerated people are presented in the following three areas: self-confidence…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education, Higher Education
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Korstange, Ryan; Rust, Dianna Z.; Brinthaupt, Tom – Journal of Faculty Development, 2019
The success of the first-year experience (FYE) course hangs on the effectiveness of the individual faculty members who are given the task of educating first-year students in a particularly important developmental period. This article applies a flipped classroom strategy for kickstarting meaningful classroom discussion in Mathematics Education to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Program Effectiveness, First Year Seminars
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Springer, Michael S.; Barthell, John F.; Simmons, Charlotte K.; Jackson-Hardwick, Dana; Wilson, Gregory M. – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2018
The clear and tangible benefits attributed to taking part in undergraduate research and creative experiences are leading colleges and universities to seek ways to broaden participation among students in all academic disciplines, particularly those beyond the STEM fields. The Office of High-Impact Practices was established in 2014 at the University…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation, Creative Activities
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Sims, Jeanetta D.; Doré, Anna; Vo, Mindy; Lai, Hung-Lin; Lim, Oon Feng – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2018
Undergraduate research in higher education has become a movement linked to institutional efforts at integrating high-impact practices and infusing transformative learning. University of Central Oklahoma's Diverse Student Scholars (DSS) is one such program of faculty mentorship that is hosted by a department of marketing within a college of…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Student Diversity
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Hellmann, Jens H.; Paus, Elisabeth; Jucks, Regina – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2014
Seeing the need to change parts of one's teaching project may be the starting point for scholars to seek inspiration and guidance from educational psychologists for innovation in their teaching. In this report, the authors address the question of how educational psychologists can assist lecturers in higher education with the implementation of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Psychology, Instructional Innovation, Instructional Improvement
Davies, Karyn; Lambert, Helen; Turner, Alison; Jenkins, Emrys; Aston, Vivienne; Rolfe, Gary – Educational Action Research, 2014
This paper describes and discusses an action research collaboration between a multi-disciplinary team of practice educators, a practice development nurse and a university lecturer in order to explore, evaluate and improve a dementia care training package developed for a range of staff providing care for people with dementia. Whilst it is…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Action Research, Staff Development, Curriculum Development
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Berger, Michael; Scott, Elizabeth; Axe, Judah; Hawkins, Irana – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013
College and university educators seek to increase student engagement in learning content, skills, and applications. To achieve this goal, we used transformative teaching techniques in the design of a World Challenge: a two-week, group-based, reflective course for sophomores leading their own learning in developing creative solutions to the problem…
Descriptors: College Students, College Faculty, Transformative Learning, Reflection
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Henry, Ronald J. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2010
Twin strategies of Institutes on the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics and support for faculty through minigrants are shown to be effective in stimulating college science and mathematics faculty to modify their introductory courses to include more active learning strategies. The institutes were designed to provide faculty who are…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, College Science, Learning Strategies, Active Learning
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Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed.; Hui, Wendy, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers and poster of the 6th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2019 (ICEduTech 2019), which has been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Lingnan University, in Hong Kong, February 8-10, 2019. ICEduTech is the scientific…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Reflection, Computer Mediated Communication
Andrea, Patti – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Since the early 1980s, policy makers and educational leaders have pinned high hopes on mentoring as a vehicle for reforming teaching and teacher education (Feiman-Nemser, 1996). A review of literature written throughout the evolution of mentoring illustrated that researchers focused most of their attention on a relatively narrow aspect of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
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