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Zaid, Yetunde A.; Alabi, Adefunke O. – Open Learning, 2021
Open educational resources (OERs) have increased in popularity and are becoming an important method of providing access to, and enhancing, the teaching and learning experience for both lecturers and students. Despite their popularity, approaches that may work best for sustaining OER initiatives in Nigerian universities are still evolving in…
Descriptors: Universities, Open Educational Resources, Program Implementation, Sustainability
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Olga Dziubaniuk; Catharina Groop; Maria Ivanova-Gongne; Monica Nyholm; Ilia Gugenishvili – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to explore the range of sustainability-related discourses by the stakeholders within a particular Finnish Higher Education Institution (HEI); interaction between the discourses and the context of the HEI; and the extent to which different understandings of sustainability cause challenges for the implementation of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sustainability, Barriers
Adrianna Kezar; K. C. Culver – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2024
This report analyzes the design process that campus teams use to create sustained professional development (SPD) programs such as faculty learning communities for VITAL faculty. The authors begin with a description of the larger research project that this report contributes to, including an overview of earlier research and methodology for the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Sustainability, Faculty Development, Educational Policy
Hana Lahr – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
In 2015, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) announced the AACC Pathways Project, a national initiative designed to support a cohort of community colleges to implement and scale whole-college guided pathways reforms. Thirty community colleges from 17 states were selected for the project and embraced the challenge of redesigning…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Student Experience, Change Strategies, Models
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Aguirre, Patricia; Villota, Freddy Hernán; Mera, Silvia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: According to the importance of higher education institutions (HEIs) in meeting sustainable development goals (SDGs), the purpose of this study is to analyze how sustainability was implemented in Ecuadorian higher education. The case study of the Universidad Técnica del Norte (UTN) process was analyzed to show the advantages of…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies
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Silvia Albareda-Tiana; Gabriel Fernandez-Borsot; Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent; Elisa Regadera González; Marta Mas-Machuca; Mariona Graell; Alba Manresa; Mónica Fernández-Morilla; M. Teresa Fuertes-Camacho; Andreu Gutiérrez-Sierra; Josep M. Guardiola – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to assess the effectiveness of active teaching methodologies, namely, problem-oriented learning and the case method, to develop sustainability competencies. It also analyses the advantages and challenges for teachers when implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in eight undergraduate and postgraduate degrees…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Departments, Program Implementation, Undergraduate Study
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Kanashiro, Patricia; Rands, Gordon; Starik, Mark – Journal of Management Education, 2020
This essay centers on the personal sustainability behaviors of faculty as related to research, teaching, and service, as well as those behaviors that go far beyond these typical faculty responsibilities. We argue that faculty personal engagement with sustainability can lend credibility to this topic as faculty can set a good example for students,…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, College Faculty, Administrator Education
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Neisler, Otherine Johnson, Ed. – Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, 2022
This handbook provides a global overview of the design, implementation and assessment of academic development centers within higher education institutions. The current nature of our complex, rapidly changing world makes it imperative that colleges and universities worldwide find ways to educate their students in new and better ways: this is…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Design, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
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Tavakkoli, Zahra; Rashidi, Naser – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2020
In the Iranian education context where the concept of Sustainability Education is to a certain extent novel and fresh, one must first determine the state of Sustainability Education in education systems and specifically TEFL departments to discover EFL instructors' needs. This way, EFL instructors can be equipped with Sustainability Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Almutiry, Muhannad; Alshehri, Mohammad Y.; Sayed, Gary – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
Higher education is challenged by workforce needs to transform its outcomes from "knowledge-based" to "competency-based" outcomes. High-impact educational practices, commonly referred to as HIPs, provide, among other benefits, efficacious development of workforce-ready specific competencies. Strategic implementation of HIPs has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Competence
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Fowler, Debra; Macik, Maria L.; Sandoval, Carolyn L.; Bakenhus, Chelsea; MacWillie, Sherri – Journal of Faculty Development, 2016
Traditional professional development related to teaching is offered on a short-term basis and at the individual level. Recent experiences and research studies have led to an organizational level model in which the educational developer forms a sustained partnership with administrators, faculty, staff, and students in a department, offering…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Sustainability, Models, Partnerships in Education
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Acosta, Imee C.; Acosta, Alexander S. – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The focus of this study is on the readiness of higher education institutions in the Philippines to the implementation of the Senior High School program of the new K-12 curriculum. Data were collected through a survey questionnaire. The findings reveal five predisposing factors, namely: eligibility, staffing guidelines, course streamlining,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Higher Education, Program Implementation
Graham, Edmund; McCambly, Heather – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2016
One of the driving forces behind the design of the Pathways to Results (PTR) initiative is to dismantle and redesign systems to produce equitable outcomes. This notion of systems producing the exact outcomes for which they were designed can also be applied to the Pathways to Results methodology itself. After five years of leading PTR initiatives…
Descriptors: Interviews, Focus Groups, Teamwork, Partnerships in Education
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Lopatto, David; Hauser, Charles; Jones, Christopher J.; Paetkau, Don; Chandrasekaran, Vidya; Dunbar, David; MacKinnon, Christy; Stamm, Joyce; Alvarez, Consuelo; Barnard, Daron; Bedard, James E. J.; Bednarski, April E.; Bhalla, Satish; Braverman, John M.; Burg, Martin; Chung, Hui-Min; DeJong, Randall J.; DiAngelo, Justin R.; Du, Chunguang; Eckdahl, Todd T.; Emerson, Julia; Frary, Amy; Frohlich, Donald; Goodman, Anya L.; Gosser, Yuying; Govind, Shubha; Haberman, Adam; Hark, Amy T.; Hoogewerf, Arlene; Johnson, Diana; Kadlec, Lisa; Kaehler, Marian; Key, S. Catherine Silver; Kokan, Nighat P.; Kopp, Olga R.; Kuleck, Gary A.; Lopilato, Jane; Martinez-Cruzado, Juan C.; McNeil, Gerard; Mel, Stephanie; Nagengast, Alexis; Overvoorde, Paul J.; Parrish, Susan; Preuss, Mary L.; Reed, Laura D.; Regisford, E. Gloria; Revie, Dennis; Robic, Srebrenka; Roecklien-Canfield, Jennifer A.; Rosenwald, Anne G.; Rubin, Michael R.; Saville, Kenneth; Schroeder, Stephanie; Sharif, Karim A.; Shaw, Mary; Skuse, Gary; Smith, Christopher D.; Smith, Mary; Smith, Sheryl T.; Spana, Eric P.; Spratt, Mary; Sreenivasan, Aparna; Thompson, Jeffrey S.; Wawersik, Matthew; Wolyniak, Michael J.; Youngblom, James; Zhou, Leming; Buhler, Jeremy; Mardis, Elaine; Leung, Wilson; Shaffer, Christopher D.; Threlfall, Jennifer; Elgin, Sarah C. R. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
In their 2012 report, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology advocated "replacing standard science laboratory courses with discovery-based research courses"--a challenging proposition that presents practical and pedagogical difficulties. In this paper, we describe our collective experiences working with the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Student Research, Genetics
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Dean, Yasmin; London, Chad; Carston, Cathy; Salyers, Vincent – International Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2015
This study explored the expectations, motivations, and experiences of Canadian faculty members undertaking development and implementation of global education initiatives (GEI) for students in the form of exchange and study abroad programs, supervised practical coursework, and experiential learning in international settings. Findings revealed that…
Descriptors: Mentors, Global Education, Faculty Development, Student Exchange Programs
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