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Holland, Rebecca C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Using the Carnegie Project for the Education Doctorate (CPED) as a model curricular framework, this study sought to determine the structures and functions of well-run and respected non-CPED participating higher education administration EdD curricula. The qualitative approach was used during two iterations of focus groups to learn the professional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Doctoral Programs, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
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Moreira, José-António; Reis-Monteiro, Angélica; Machado, Ana – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2017
Higher Education in Europe has undergone massive changes due to technological advancements and adjustments resulting from the Bologna Process, by which learning should be accessible for all regardless of social exclusion reasons, such as imprisonment. The resulting massification of access to Higher Education requires flexible and inclusive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Electronic Learning
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Nguyen-Voges, Shelbee – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
The purpose of this literature review is to critically examine over two decades of research concerned with study abroad participation in the United States. Research questions framing the investigation are: 1) What methodological shortcomings can be identified in assessing influences on study abroad participation for adult and higher education…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Study Abroad, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Fuller, Matthew B. – Education Leadership Review, 2013
Higher education campus leaders face a complex state of affairs regarding the documentation of evidence of student learning. There is no shortage of technical guidance for conducting assessment (e.g. Allen, 2006; Bresciani, 2007; Bresciani, Zelna, & Anderson, 2004; Lui, 2011; Maki, 2010; Suskie, 2009; Walvrood & Anderson, 2010), and a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Organizational Culture, Student Evaluation, Measurement Objectives
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Gurevich, L. Ia. – Russian Education and Society, 2011
Making sure that any reforms enjoy social support is an urgent problem in societal transformations. This truth has been hard won by history and has rightly taken on the status of an axiom. What makes reforms different from revolutions is that they are limited when it comes to the use of the mechanisms of destruction and suppression. In contrast to…
Descriptors: Expertise, Learning Activities, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Wu, Dan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) is a successful educational movement initiated in the US in the 1970s to promote better teaching and learning. It has developed to incorporate writing, speaking, digital educational technologies, and other communication modalities in the past several decades. WAC initiatives have now been successfully…
Descriptors: Expertise, Higher Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, Foreign Countries
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Lipscombe, Bryan Paul – Environmental Education Research, 2008
The extra-curricular sphere may possess certain qualities that could make it a useful arena for the advancement of education for sustainable development (ESD) work in higher education (HE). Speculation on these qualities and potential functions is examined with reference to research into UK HE practice, including a postal questionnaire survey of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Extracurricular Activities
Cornford, Ian – 1994
There is a strong international trend for governments to move teacher training away from the universities into the schools. In effect, this is a challenge to the expertise and effectiveness of university-based teacher educators. This paper examines the role of fashions in research in the destruction of teacher educator credibility. Reflective…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
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Brown, Gary – About Campus, 2004
To say an issue is academic can mean it doesn't really matter, not in the real world, anyway. Gary Brown takes a critical look at how higher education has become unreal for many students and what we might do to help re-engage our institutions with the world. (Contains 17 notes.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Critical Thinking, Foundations of Education
Renwick, Margery; Vize, June – 1993
A longitudinal study of teacher education in three New Zealand Colleges of Education (Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch) was conducted between the years 1989-1992 to examine: (1) the process of teacher education as it unfolded over time for those involved in it; (2) the experiences of a cohort of students preparing to become primary school…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Education Courses, Educational Practices, Elementary Education