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Baaki, John; Tracey, Monica W.; Bailey, Elizabeth – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
We have explored designers having empathy for the audience of focus, designers using empathy as a means to an end, and designers using empathy to deliver a meaningful design deliverable. Our research has evolved from studying how designers reflect on their own design context and the audience's given circumstance to designers acting on moments of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Projects, Empathy, Audience Awareness
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Akcaoglu, Mete; Dogan, Selcuk; Hodges, Charles B. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
In this paper, we describe the design, development, and implementation of a curriculum based on teaching computer science using an industry-standard game-design software: Unity 3D. We discuss the theoretical underpinnings of our instructional design process and steps we have taken to introduce complexity and maintain student motivation. We discuss…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Coding
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Ryan, Shane M.; Beck, Diane E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
This paper describes a unique organizational approach involving education specialists and faculty members in the continuous development of a Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum. The described curriculum includes extensive use of technology with blended learning and use of interactive videoconferencing to three campuses. This curriculum is…
Descriptors: Specialists, College Faculty, Doctoral Programs, Pharmacy
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Nelson, Dorothea; Parchoma, Gale – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
This article reports preliminary findings of a research project that used participatory action research (PAR) methodology. The PAR methodology gives voice and ownership to prospective students and other stakeholders in the design of a culturally sensitive library science program and its related online courses in the English-speaking Eastern…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Curriculum Development, Online Courses
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Allan, Walter C.; Erickson, Jeryl L.; Brookhouse, Phil; Johnson, Judith L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2010
Maine's one-to-one laptop program provides an ideal opportunity to explore conditions that optimize teacher integration of technology-focused curriculum into the classroom. EcoScienceWorks (ESW) is an ecology curriculum that includes targeted simulations and a code block programming challenge developed through an NSF-ITEST grant. The project was…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Environmental Education, Ecology, Science Teachers
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Miller, Charles; Hooper, Simon; Rose, Susan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2008
Between 1998 and 2002, enrollment in American Sign Language (ASL) curricula at the postsecondary level has increased 433% nationally, representing the largest enrollment percentage gain of all world languages. This unprecedented demand for ASL linguistic study has created a wide range of instructional challenges, the most pervasive of which…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Curriculum Development, Postsecondary Education, Enrollment Trends