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Traditional Skills, Non-Traditional Demographic: Rethinking Novice Digital Design Tool Education for outside the Engineering Major
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Katherine J. Stephenson – ProQuest LLC, 2017
While the changing nature of design activity is a topic supported by a range of popular and academic publications, the role that design tools have taken in that change is less well studied. The tools used in the trade, both by industrial designers and mechanical engineers, have undergone a rapid transformation in the last fifty years. The research…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Digital Literacy, Novices, Majors (Students)
A Comparative Case Study of GELT Implementation in U.S.-Based University English Language Programs
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Dustin Crowther; Akiko Doyama; Milang Shin; Betsy Gilliland – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
The increased global use of English has brought calls for a reconceptualization of English language teaching (ELT). Despite several frameworks for implementing Global Englishes (GE) into ELT, little research considers the effects of curriculum intervention or how such intervention varies across contexts. Addressing this gap, this comparative case…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
The State of Gerontological Social Work Education in California: Implications for Curricula Evaluation
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Damron-Rodriguez, JoAnn; Goodman, Catherine; Ranney, Molly; Min, Jong Won; Takahashi, Nancy – Journal of Social Work Education, 2013
California has actively engaged in the Hartford Geriatric Social Work Initiative. Subsequently, the California Social Work Education Center Aging Initiative conducted a university survey of gerontology education in California graduate social work schools ("N"?=?17). In 2005, students taking aging courses were 12% in comparison to a…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Social Work, Curriculum Evaluation, Aging Education
Departmental Culture and Professional Development in the Context of Language Programme Reform
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Sánchez-Naranjo, Jeannette – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2022
Recent scholarship in professional development (PD) has advocated for solid conceptual frameworks and understanding of the complex process involved in how language educators may continue to develop and fulfil the current challenging teaching demands. However, specific relationships underlying departmental cultures and how language educators relate…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Change, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning
An Empirical Study on Postgraduate Education of Business English in China
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Xuemi, Lu; Wenzhong, Zhu – Higher Education Studies, 2019
The development of business English (BE) program cannot separate from that of its closely-related discipline. However, little is known about business English disciplinary development from the angle of postgraduate education in China. Through questionnaires and interviews on 64 postgraduate students of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, English (Second Language), Business English, Second Language Learning
The Essential Elements of a Quality Graduate Technology Education Program. CTTE Monograph 12.
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Wright, John R., Ed. – 1991
This monograph addresses the essential elements for high quality technology education programs at the graduate level. It discusses the issues in eight chapters written by individual authors: (1) "The 'Why' of Graduate Study" (Paul W. DeVore); (2) "Curriculum Development" (Ronald E. Jones); (3) "Instructional Strategies at the Graduate Level"…
Descriptors: College Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Quality, Educational Research