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Micah Stephen Truax – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Low financial literacy is a growing problem in young adults, which has effects throughout adulthood (Amagir et al., 2018). Record low personal savings rates, a shift toward increased personal responsibility for retirement, and increasing student loan balances put financial decision-making demands on young adults that have lifelong impacts (Lusardi…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, Socialization, Colleges, Higher Education
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Jan Bamford; Elena Moschini – Higher Education Research and Development, 2025
This paper explores the use of a gamified digital intervention to build connected and relational spaces for students in higher education which reach beyond the places and spaces of the traditional learning environment. These informal learning spaces can be seen to facilitate the development of students' transferable skills. The project…
Descriptors: Gamification, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
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Lucy Bamwo; Michal Kochanowicz; Priya Mahey; Joanna Szpunar – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2023
The student technology mentor (STMs) team at the University of Hertfordshire have worked together to create an engaging online digital skills course for students. They have designed, developed, and authored content for their peers with the eventual aim of staff learning from these resources. This project will continue to be enhanced and added to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Literacy, Online Courses, Skill Development
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Jakkaphatto, Phrajakkaphat; Dhammapissamai, Phrakru – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
The aim of this study was to develop an educational innovation called "An Online Program to Empower Teachers' Learning to Develop Students' Critical Thinking Skills." The study recognized the importance of social changes (i.e., becoming a knowledge-based society and a digital society) in the 21st century by examining knowledge from good…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Development, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Bell, Alison; Bonafede, Lucas; Lorch, Arlene; Snitzer, Melanie; Edmonds, Scott A.; Levin, Alex V. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2023
Introduction: There is an increasing need for occupational therapists with the skills to provide low vision services, however, there is a lack of standardized training of low vision occupational therapy services. The purpose of this study is to design and evaluate a course for occupational therapy students to improve their skills and knowledge…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, College Students
Katharine Elizabeth Musella – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The diagnosis of individuals on the autism spectrum (AS) has received international attention in recent years. This is partly due to the potentially distressing and challenging barriers individuals and their families face as well as a rise in prevalence rates (Weiss & Rohland, 2014). Research has indicated an increase in individuals on the AS,…
Descriptors: Individualized Transition Plans, Transitional Programs, College Students, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Westbrock, Theresa; Cox, Angie – College & Research Libraries, 2020
This study identifies the successes and challenges associated with the addition of a nonlibrary service desk in a university library's learning commons. The authors wanted to know whether a training and service collaboration with an outside unit could reliably and efficiently connect students to the librarians, academic support services, and other…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Peer Relationship, Program Development, Program Evaluation
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Bellman, Scott; Burgstahler, Sheryl; Selvakumar, Meena – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2022
The University of Washington's (UW) "Access to Informal STEM Learning (AccessISL)" project employs a student-centered approach and potentially transformative practices that embrace the social model of disability, social justice education, disability as a diversity issue, intersectionality, and universal design. A leadership team of…
Descriptors: College Students, Internship Programs, STEM Education, Student Centered Learning
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Amy M. Leman; Rebecca Mott – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2023
Societal changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have shown the importance of both intrapersonal and interpersonal skills in virtual environments. Two midwestern university instructors joint-taught their spring 2021 agricultural education and training program development courses, bringing students together in virtual teams during the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Development, Higher Education, Online Courses
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Biktagirova, Gulnara F.; Utemov, Vyacheslav V.; Khitryuk, Vera V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the study is stipulated by the lack of applied technology of basic professional training program for middle level specialists for mastering Federal State Educational Standards, highlighting the integrated result of the development of the educational curricular (general and professional competences, knowledge, skills, experience).…
Descriptors: Specialists, Professional Development, Training, Foreign Countries
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Sambell, Ros; Devine, Amanda; Lo, Johnny; Lawlis, Tanya – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2020
Enterprising students who understand the work environment are considered more employable. It is accepted that higher-education has a responsibility to produce career-ready-graduates. Practicum experience provides a critical role in this preparation. This study describes the development and implementation of the WIL instrument and WIL experience to…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Work Experience, Practicums, Program Development
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van de Heyde, Valentino; Stoltenkamp, Juliet; Siebrits, André – Cogent Education, 2017
The paper explores critical success factors (CSFs) in relation to the support structure for an online self-coaching pilot project, by the Centre for Innovative Education and Communication Technologies of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa, in collaboration with UWC's Social Work Department and the University of South Africa…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Social Work, Program Effectiveness, Online Courses
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Wallace, Samuel P. – Basic Communication Course Annual, 2015
The purpose of this essay is to provide clarity and direction for developing and maintaining outcome-driven courses for inclusion in general education curricula. The focus is on the basic course in Communication, but the principles can be applied to nearly any course. The outcome-driven perspective changes many traditional conceptions of the basic…
Descriptors: Communications, Program Development, Sustainability, Higher Education
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Pasquesi, Kira – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
This chapter explores the design and implementation of service learning as a multicultural initiative. The author shares considerations for multicultural service-learning practice using an example from a course project focused on leadership skill development in public service.
Descriptors: College Students, Service Learning, Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism
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Narikbaeva, Lora M.; Savenkov, Alexander I. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The Republic of Kazakhstan has developed a state program for search, support and development of talented children and youth. The objectives of this program are: (1) Strategy determination for training and education of talented children and youth; (2) Development of intellectual potential in the Republic; and (3) Providing talented young people…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Talent Development, College Students, Performance Factors
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