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Michael Giamellaro; Benjamin Ewing; Deborah Siegel – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
School change is difficult and is both leveraged and hindered by interactive influences within complex systems of social practice. Whole-school STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is a growing trend with unique aspects of change required of educators. A qualitative case study was used to analyze educator perspectives of the…
Descriptors: Affordances, Barriers, Program Implementation, Student Projects
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Geng, Gretchen; Zhu, Yue; Disney, Leigh Patrick – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
This paper reconceptualised the interrelated learning constructs in higher education based on the Dynamic Systems Theory (DST). The university students' learning experience before, during and post the Emergency Online Learning (EOL) was investigated to explore the dynamic changes among the learning constructs in higher education. A case study of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Systems Approach, Learning Experience
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von Lautz-Cauzanet, Eilean – Prospects, 2022
This viewpoint article argues that there is an urgent need to reform the project-based EdTech approach in order to allow EdTech to contribute to the resilience of education systems in the aftermath of COVID-19. Looking at the contrast between the multiplication of EdTech pilot projects presented as a necessary step in a process that will…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Student Projects, Active Learning
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Bertel, Lykke Brogaard; Askehave, Inger; Brohus, Henrik; Geil, Olav; Kolmos, Anette; Ovesen, Nis; Stoustrup, Jakob – Advances in Engineering Education, 2021
Since its establishment in 1974, Aalborg University has aimed to deliver cutting-edge research and innovative practices in engineering education. However, increasing complexity related to rapid developments in digitalization and emerging societal challenges offer new opportunities, requirements, and expectations across disciplines for educational…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects, Active Learning
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Carreon, Fernando; DeBacker, Stephen; Kessenich, Paul; Kubena, Angela; LaRose, P. Gavin – PRIMUS, 2018
In the abstract for "Calculus for a New Century: A Pump, Not a Filter," Lynn Steen wrote: "The authors agree on the forces that are reshaping calculus, but disagree on how to respond to these forces. They agree that the current course is not satisfactory, yet disagree about new content emphases. They agree that the neglect of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Yong, Lou – International Education Studies, 2020
Embedded system is an interdisciplinary, profound foundation and practice-oriented course; at present, in the traditional teaching mode, embedded systems in colleges and universities generally have problems such as disconnected theory and practice, outdated assessment methods, and low enthusiasm of students. Arming to cultivate compound embedded…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Active Learning
Casey, Katherine; Patrick, Susan – Aurora Institute, 2020
Fewer than one in five American students follow a clear and uninterrupted path from high school through college to career. The promise of a public education is to prepare all learners to engage in, contribute to, and achieve purpose in the world, both as it is today and as it will be tomorrow. And yet, the American education system as we know it…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Social Mobility
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Tillmanns, Tanja; Holland, Charlotte; Lorenzi, Francesca; McDonagh, Pierre – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2014
One of the central challenges within education for sustainable development (ESD) is in empowering learners to reframe mindsets, particularly those that result in unsustainable behaviours and/or actions. This paper introduces the concept of rhizome articulated by Deleuze and Guattari (1987) and proposes that it can act as a framework for…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Educational Practices, Sustainability, Educational Principles
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Schrum, Lynne; Levin, Barbara B. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2016
This article presents information on current aspects in the use of technology to improve student outcomes and engagement, prepare learners for their future and support educators in adopting new pedagogies for teaching and learning. Based on the authors' research of exemplary school leaders and reviewing literature on the use of twenty-first…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods
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Schwalm, Jason; Tylek, Karen Smuck – Afterschool Matters, 2012
Citywide implementation of project-based learning highlights the benefits--and the challenges--of promoting exemplary practices across an entire out-of-school time (OST) network. In summer 2009, the City of Philadelphia and its intermediary, the Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC), introduced project-based learning to a network of more…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Program Implementation, Program Descriptions
Bender, William N.; Waller, Laura – Corwin, 2011
"The Teaching Revolution" challenges educators to imagine schools the way they should be, with a "big picture" vision that includes student-driven curricula, interconnectivity, and targeted responsiveness to students' individual needs. The authors provide a futuristic and provocative discussion on combining three major instructional…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Web Based Instruction, Active Learning, Educational Change
Hoffman, Martos; Barstow, Daniel – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2007
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) commissioned TERC to complete a review of science education standards for all 50 states. The study analyzed K-12 Earth science standards to determine how well each state addresses key Earth-science content, concepts and skills. This report reveals that few states have thoroughly integrated…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Science Education, State Standards, Elementary Secondary Education
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Hsu, Pi-Sui; Sharma, Priya – Educational Technology & Society, 2006
The purpose of this article is to suggest a research-based systemic plan for educational researchers, practitioners, and policymakers involved in the change process to implement successful technology integration in the context of teacher education. This article provides a background about reform efforts in science education in the United States in…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Educational Change, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Science
Falk, John H.; Dierking, Lynn D. – 2002
This book advocates establishing "learning systems" that utilize all the educational resources of communities to connect and extend learning opportunities across a lifetime. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) the essence of lifelong learning and a learning society; (2) how and why people engage in free-choice learning; (3)…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Adolescents, Adult Learning, Age Differences