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Mark Frydenberg; William VanderClock – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
This paper reflects on the process of designing and implementing an update to the "Introduction to Information Technology" course at Bentley University, a business university in New England. Driven by a university-wide curriculum reform initiative and following best practices from digital literacy frameworks and IS model curricula, the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Pilot Projects
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Faulconer, E. K.; Wood, B.; Griffith, J. C. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2020
The "Next Generation Science Standards" and other educational reforms support the formation of deep connections across the STEM disciplines. Integrated STEM is considered as a best practice by the educational communities of the disparate disciplines. However, the integration of non-STEM disciplines is understudied and generally limited…
Descriptors: Humanities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Salvador, Karen; Paetz, Allison M.; Tippetts, Matthew M. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate processes that led practicing music educators in a graduate course to examine their beliefs and practices regarding inclusion, responsiveness, equity, and justice. Using Charmaz's constructivist approach to grounded theory, we interviewed 22 participants from MUS 8XX: Philosophy of Music Education.…
Descriptors: Music Education, Graduate Students, Grounded Theory, Educational Philosophy
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Hitt, Sarah Jayne; Holles, Cortney E. P.; Lefton, Toni – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
This article discusses two multidisciplinary courses created at the Colorado School of Mines that were developed to integrate ethics into the first-year engineering curriculum: "Nature and Human Values" (NHV) and "Innovation and Discovery in Engineering, Arts, and Sciences" (IDEAS). In both NHV and IDEAS, our objectives are to…
Descriptors: Design, Ethics, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Holmes, N. G.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Physics lab instruction is evolving in response to changing technology, a desire to better prepare students for diverse careers, and renewed focus from physics education researchers. To prepare researchers to evaluate progress in instructional labs in the future, this study set out to understand the current state of instructional physics labs in…
Descriptors: Physics, Laboratory Experiments, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
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Adams, Megan; Rodriguez, Sanjuana; Zimmer, Kate – Online Learning, 2018
This study investigated a set of online reading courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in a university's college of education. The courses were thought to integrate culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP), and the study's intent was to determine the extent to which they actually did so. The goals of the study were to determine whether CRP was…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Cultural Relevance, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Wollschleger, Jason – Teaching Sociology, 2019
Previous scholarship has demonstrated the value of high-impact practices of community engagement, inquiry-based pedagogy, and collaborative learning for engagement and learning in sociology courses, especially undergraduate research methods and statistics. This article explores the changes made to an upper-division undergraduate course focused on…
Descriptors: Assignments, Sociology, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement
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Biasutti, Michele; De Baz, Theodora; Alshawa, Hala – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2016
The current paper presents the assessment of the infusion of sustainability principles into university curricula at two Jordanian universities. The peer review process of revising the curricula infusing sustainability principles is also discussed. The research methodology involved quantitative methods to assess the revised courses. The results…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Educational Principles, Curriculum Development, College Programs
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Booker, Keonya; Campbell-Whatley, Gloria D. – Journal of Research in Education, 2015
Multicultural Course Change involves deliberate and thoughtful attention to developing and presenting course material that focuses on well-defined multicultural goals. In this qualitative study, nine faculty participated in a Summer Diversity Institute designed to support multicultural curriculum development and instruction. Syllabi were reviewed…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Course Descriptions, Classroom Environment, Qualitative Research
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Malinak, Steven M.; Bayline, Jennifer Logan; Brletic, Patricia A.; Harris, Mark F.; Iuliucci, Robbie J.; Leonard, Michael S.; Matsuno, Nobunaka; Pallack, Linda A.; Stringfield, Thomas W.; Sunderland, Deborah Polvani – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
The chemistry department at Washington & Jefferson College implemented an "organic first" curriculum in the fall semester of 2005. Assessment data suggest that the net impact of this change for the department and associated constituencies has been positive: (i) Student outcomes have generally not been impacted by the curricular…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Change, Change Strategies
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Azasu, Samuel; Berggren, Björn – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2015
The purpose of the paper is to describe and analyse efforts to integrate research into teaching in a postgraduate degree program in real estate management. The long term goals of the changes were to increase graduation rates as well as the quality of dissertations. In order to validate our findings, the data for this paper emanate from a three…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Masters Programs, Educational Change, Real Estate
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Karademir, Yavuz; Demir, Selcuk Besir – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The aim of this study is to ascertain the problems social studies teachers face in the teaching of topics covered in 8th grade TRHRK Course. The study was conducted in line with explanatory sequential mixed method design, which is one of the mixed research method, was used. The study involves three phases. In the first step, exploratory process…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Middle School Students, History Instruction
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Hanson, Lori – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2010
Social transformation models of internationalization suggest the need for radical reform to curricula to foster engaged global citizenship, yet little is written depicting how individual courses and their instructors might support such reform. This article stems from and explores philosophical, pedagogical, institutional, and curricular issues…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Health, Social Change, Global Approach
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Murray-Nseula, Marlene – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
Genetics is considered one of the most challenging courses in the biology curricula at both the secondary and post secondary levels. Case based teaching has been shown to improve student perception and performance outcomes in both non-science and science courses. Thus in an effort to improve outcomes, case studies were integrated into an…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Genetics, Program Effectiveness, Case Studies
Arnold, William E. – 1973
Pressure upon institutions of higher education to attract more students and to cut back on the number of courses offered has increased in recent years. A part of the problem is to determine which courses should continue to be offered and to better fit student interests to the course available. One solution to this problem, is the offering of…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Courses
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