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Elizabeth Dickens; Andrea Han; Nausheen Shafiq; Jessica Taggart – To Improve the Academy, 2025
This mixed methods study explores the work and perspectives of curriculum developers, a subset of educational developers who support the development, revision, and/or renewal of academic degree programs and similar sequences, beyond an individual course. Thirty-five developers in the United States and Canada completed a survey addressing…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Academic Degrees, Program Development
National Center for Systemic Improvement at WestEd, 2024
The following resource is an impact story of how NCSI built the capacity of Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to design a state system of support to begin addressing the special education teacher shortage. The resource provides context for the intensive technical assistance focusing on improvement science, provides qualitative and…
Descriptors: State Boards of Education, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Shortage, Intervention
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Coppes, Wessel; Berkers, Pauwke – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
There has been a steady increase in popular music programs at Higher Music Education Institutions (HMEIs) across Europe. However, what students actually are supposed to learn at popular music bachelor/master programs has remained largely understudied. Based on 12 in-depth interviews with leaders in higher popular music education, this paper…
Descriptors: Program Development, Music Education, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Balogová, Beáta; Gazdová, Veronika Kmetóny – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2019
Introduction: The authors of this paper base their research on the following assumption: the development of both geragogic education (older adult education) and profession is conditioned by the existence of a study program of geragogy provided by departments of geragogy created at universities (as public institutions of higher education). The fact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Adult Education, Educational Gerontology
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Frohlich, Dennis Owen; Magolis, David – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2020
The field of mass communication is constantly undergoing change and development, and the pace has accelerated with the advent of digital technologies. One challenge educators face is: how do we educate college students not just for today's careers, but also for lifelong competencies with media? Against this backdrop, the Department of Media and…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Curriculum Development, Departments, Universities
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Vasconcelos, Ricardo – Hispania, 2020
Portuguese is the fifth most-spoken language in the world, with about 260 million speakers (and growing to an expected 400 million by 2050), the third most spoken in the West, the most widely spoken in the Southern Hemisphere, an official language in 9 countries and other regions. It is present in Europe, South America, Africa, and parts of Asia.…
Descriptors: Portuguese, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Alan Reinstein; Natalie Tatiana Churyk; Eileen Z. Taylor; Paul F. Williams – Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, 2019
Despite formal ethics education and ethics-related continuing professional education (CPE) requirements, professional accountants continue to play a central role in enabling corporations to make unethical business decisions and take unethical business actions. Several jurisdictions in the United States require ethics education for licensure, but…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Departments, Advisory Committees
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Sibanda, Nkululeko – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2020
In this account, I engage how Midlands State University through its Film and Theatre Arts Studies programme responded and continues to respond to the neoliberalisation of higher and tertiary education in Zimbabwe. I argue that while the splicing of Film and Theatre Arts into a single programme was beneficial to the institution, the packaging of…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Competition, Commercialization, Theater Arts
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Lund, Jackie L.; Napper-Owen, Gloria; Boyce, B. Ann – Quest, 2019
In this thematic issue, we examined Doctoral Students' (DS) perspectives on six topics: (a) dissertation, (b) teacher training, (c) research training, (d) advisors, (e) doctoral program and department, and (f) career perspectives (past DS). Each topic was viewed through three lenses: (a) status (past and current DS), (b) gender, and (c)…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Kinetics, Student Attitudes, Career Choice
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Zink, Holly R. – Research Management Review, 2018
The nation's leading academic hospitals aspire to being the leader in medical research, but as the role of medical research grows in size and complexity, many departments are left without proper research support or oversight. This research explored the need for a research administrative support program to resolve many of the issues facing faculty…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Program Development, Hospitals, Universities
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Shannon, Patrick – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2019
Online programs are often viewed as a cost-efficient strategy for increasing revenue for shrinking university budgets but this may not be an accurate assessment. Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) is a budgeting model that is purported to increase efficient delivery of academic programs. As RCM budgeting models have been embraced, many…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Work, Cost Effectiveness, Budgeting
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Fuentes, Ronald; Gómez Soler, Inmaculada – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
As a result of internationalisation, many universities have developed policies that encourage publications in English. This study explores this issue by examining multilingual scholars' experiences of publishing policies in an Anglophone context and more specifically within the discipline of foreign languages--an inherently plurilingual discipline…
Descriptors: Faculty Publishing, College Faculty, Multilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Fischer, Johann – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2020
The underlying methodological approach of the CEFR is defined as being "action-oriented" and task-based (Council of Europe. 2001. "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment." Cambridge University Press: 9), although it explicitly leaves room for a variety of approaches, since the CEFR…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rating Scales, Guidelines
Auerbach, David I.; Martsolf, Grant R.; Pearson, Marjorie L.; Taylor, Erin Audrey; Zaydman, Mikhail; Muchow, Ashley; Spetz, Joanne; Dower, Catherine – RAND Corporation, 2015
In 2004, members of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) voted to endorse a position statement identifying the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree as the most appropriate degree for advanced-practice registered nurses (APRNs) to enter practice. At the same time, AACN members voted to approve the position that all master's…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Doctoral Degrees, Graduate Study, Mixed Methods Research
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Handal, Gunnar; Lycke, Kirsten Hofgaard; Mårtensson, Katarina; Roxå, Torgny; Skodvin, Arne; Solbrekke, Tone Dyrdal – International Journal for Academic Development, 2014
Academic developers (ADs) often participate in the implementation of programmes or reforms in higher education. Sometimes they agree with these and sometimes they disagree. This paper discusses possible agentic positions during a genuine policy implementation--the National Qualification Framework at a Norwegian university. Through reflexive…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Program Development
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