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Tait, Glendon R.; Kulasegaram, Kulamakan Mahan – Education Sciences, 2022
(1) Background: Programmatic assessment optimizes the coaching, learning, and decision-making functions of assessment. It utilizes multiple data points, fit for purpose, which on their own guide learning, but taken together form the basis of holistic decision making. While they are agreed on principles, implementation varies according to context.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Medical Education, Undergraduate Study
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Joseph J. Lee – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
This paper discusses the development and implementation of a locally-sourced corpus to address the specific needs of an ESL writing program. The paper begins with a description of the motivation and development of the "Corpus of Ohio Learner and Teacher English" (COLTE), a large in-house corpus consisting of assessed ESL student writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Program Implementation
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Karen J. Lunsford; Amanda Stansell – Composition Forum, 2023
In this program profile, we describe the development of a new track in Science Communication (SciComm) for an existing Professional Writing minor offered by an independent Writing Program. We identify the international and local exigencies for improving SciComm; the resources needed for this new track--both those already in place and those…
Descriptors: Universities, Sciences, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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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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Constantine Manolchev; Allen Alexander; Ruth Cherrington – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2022
In addition to higher learning, universities are expected to also 'do' employability and help students transition from education to employment. Accordingly, a wide range of approaches have emerged and we, as academics, dedicate substantial efforts to designing and implementing attractive employability offerings for our degree programmes. We spend…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Praxis, Universities, Education Work Relationship
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Despujol, Ignacio; Castaneda, Linda; Turro, Carlos – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) was the European institution with more MOOC course runs done by December 2016. This paper describes and analyses the decisionmaking process, and rationale of the development of this low budget real MOOC institutional initiative carried out by a traditional higher educational medium sized institution. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Online Courses, Curriculum Development
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Moya, Beatriz; Turra, Héctor; Chalmers, Denise – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
This article describes the development of an evaluation and impact framework to assess the effectiveness of educational innovations. It can be utilized within a single program, as well as at institutional and national levels. While it is contextualized in a Chilean university, it is argued that it is widely applicable as it is informed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Higher Education, Educational Innovation
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Alzafari, Khaled; Ursin, Jani – Quality in Higher Education, 2019
The vast majority of studies concerning the implementation of quality assurance in higher education institutions have been conducted from a national perspective, with few cross-national studies. This study aimed to explore the implementation of quality assurance standards in Europe from a comparative perspective. A questionnaire based on…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Standards
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Albareda-Tiana, Silvia; Vidal-Raméntol, Salvador; Fernández-Morilla, Mónica – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this case study is to explore the principles and practices of sustainable development (SD) in the university curriculum. Design/methodology/approach: To explore the principles linked with the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the learning and teaching practices in sustainability at the International University of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Sustainable Development, Universities
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Cebrián, Gisela – Environmental Education Research, 2018
This paper presents an evidence-based model (the I3E model) for embedding education for sustainability (EfS) within a higher education institution. This model emerged from a doctoral research that examined organisational learning and change processes at the University of Southampton to build EfS into the university curriculum. The researcher aimed…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Undergraduate Students, Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Ghazavi, Mansuoreh; Nasr, Ahmad Reza; Jafari, Ebrahim Mirshah; Mosapour, Neamatollah – International Education Studies, 2016
The move on decentralization of curriculum development in recent decade has become one of the major tasks in developing scientific fields in Iran. By implementing these programs some drawbacks have become evident. The objective of this study was to identify and assess the existing challenges involved in the development of academic disciplines from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Innovation
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Agasisti, Tommaso; Bolli, Thomas – Higher Education Quarterly, 2013
The Bologna reform aims to enhance several dimensions of the universities' activities, by favouring mobility and mutual recognition of higher education degrees across Europe, with the objective to create a European Higher Education Area. The radical changes induced by the Bologna Process affect universities' productivity both directly (for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Productivity, Educational Change, Universities
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Albaqami, Saud – Higher Education Studies, 2015
Quality assurance in higher education remains to be one of the most prominent fields of research at the present. In the Saudi Arabian higher education institutions (HEIs), quality assurance is a relatively new concept and Saudi universities seem not to effectively implement quality assurance caused by the certain obstacles. As such, there are two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Program Implementation, Higher Education
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Venkatesh, Vivek; Rabah, Jihan; Lamoureux-Scholes, Laurie; Pelczer, Ildiko; Urbaniak, Kathryn; Martin, Frédérica – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2014
The Graduate and Professional Skills (GradProSkills) program is an initiative developed and run by Concordia University's School of Graduate Studies and the university's Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies. This paper presents a case study in which we describe the development, implementation, and evaluative components of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Skill Development
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Magalhães, António; Veiga, Amélia; Sousa, Sofia; Ribeiro, Filipa – European Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This article focuses on the interaction between the European dimension driven by the creation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the development of national reforms to fulfil that objective. On the basis of data gathered in eight countries involved in EuroHESC project TRUE (Transforming European Universities), the curricular and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education, Educational Change
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