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Wilma Van Staden; Rob O'Donoghue; Heila Lotz-Sisitka – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2023
This formative paper reviews the recent expansion in online teacher education programmes for "Education for Sustainable Development" (ESD) in southern Africa. The research informs the design of resource-based learning. An activity systems approach and a preliminary mapping of the design features for online learning for ESD enabled us to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development, Sustainable Development
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Jen Vanek; Jennifer Maddrell; Jeff Goumas; Rachel Riggs – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2023
Adult educators integrate digital activities into instruction to provide flexible, engaging learning opportunities and help learners gain digital skills. Teachers are eager to create digital resources for their classes, but often are limited by the time and/or skills necessary to do so. A promising free-to-teachers solution employed in…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Shared Resources and Services, Digital Literacy, Open Educational Resources
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Irene Guevara-Herrero; José Manuel Pérez-Martín; Beatriz Bravo-Torija – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Recent educational reforms demand a transformative Environmental Education (EE), so teachers should be able to design activities that promote students' critical thinking and informed problem-solving. Given that educators' perceptions can determine their way of teaching, this paper analyzes 249 Spanish teachers' responses to 10 questions in a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Qualifications
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Lucie Weissova; Jeanine Gregersen-Hermans; Darko Pantelic – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
Contemporary higher education institutions are marked by diverse, internationalized classrooms that bring together various linguistic and cultural backgrounds. However, realizing the full potential of this diversity poses challenges, as academics, key players in maximizing the benefits of international classrooms, often lack the necessary…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Adult Learning, Faculty Development
Cortina, José Luis; Visnovská, Jana; Peña, Jesica; Zúñiga, Claudia – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
This paper discusses the design modifications of a sequence of specified learning goals for teaching early number, which characterise an instructional resource developed in a design research collaboration with teachers in Mexican preschools. Highlighted are the types of research involvement that appear to be necessary in designing resources for…
Descriptors: Sequential Approach, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Preschool Teachers
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Parama Khaewphuang; Prasart Nuangchalerm – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2025
This study aims to investigate and validate the components and indicators of instructional design competence for Thai preservice teachers. The research began with a synthesis of relevant concepts and theories through a comprehensive literature review and expert interviews, followed by the development of a questionnaire for data collection. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies
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Curtis J. Bonk; Meina Zhu – ECNU Review of Education, 2024
Purpose: We describe a series of more than a dozen studies on self-directed online learning spanning over a decade. Design/Approach/Methods: We incorporated surveys, interviews, focus groups, and content analyses into these research studies, which initially targeted the goals, motivations, and challenges of learners using open educational…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Independent Study, MOOCs, Educational Research
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Bennison, Anne; Goos, Merrilyn; Geiger, Vince – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Increasingly, digital technologies are being utilised to provide opportunities for teacher professional learning (PL) in fully online, blended and face-to-face environments. Videos have been used extensively across the three modes of delivery but there appears little research on the conceptual framing underpinning their development. This article…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Faculty Development, Online Courses, Blended Learning
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Nilsen, Anders Grov; Almås, Aslaug Grov; Gram, Helene – Designs for Learning, 2020
The purpose of this article is to describe the development and design process of an educational app for teacher training. Online teaching and learning resources are used more than ever in teacher training. However, the utilization of digital technology in higher education shows unambiguously that very little has been transformed or improved so far…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Martin, Florence; Wang, Chuang; Budhrani, Kiran; Moore, Robert L.; Jokiaho, Annika – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2019
With the increase in number of courses being offered online, there is an increase in the need for professional development support for instructors to teach online. The purpose of this study is to examine faculty perceptions on professional development needs for online teaching, specifically in the U.S. and in Germany. Based on a qualitative…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Online Courses
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DeWaard, Helen; Chavhan, Rekha – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2020
This paper offers insight from an informal cross-cultural mentoring experience of course development in higher education framed by the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning project. The Open Education for a Better World is a tuition-free international online mentoring program established to unlock the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Higher Education, Open Educational Resources, Open Source Technology
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Yasin Karatay; Volker Hegelheimer – CALICO Journal, 2021
The pandemic in 2020 has profoundly impacted millions of people all around the world. We have experienced intense disruption in our daily lives. We have lost loved ones, jobs, motivation, and precious time that could have been used more productively. The pandemic did not distinguish between borders, race, or gender. It affected everyone but not…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Joeylynn Selling – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Historically, reforms designed to transform teaching from rote, teacher-centered instruction to progressive student-centered instruction have had varied levels of success. Plentiful research juxtaposes teachers' enacted instruction with the instructional ideals of reform efforts to determine the extent to which teachers' instruction aligns with…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Discourse Analysis
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Humphrey, Sally – Language and Education, 2020
This paper reports on research which has explored essential requirements for pedagogies of hope, including the expansion of teachers' semiotic knowledge. The study, a professional learning intervention with teachers of young multilingual learners engaged in science inquiry, was informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) descriptions of…
Descriptors: Role, Semiotics, Multiple Literacies, Teaching Methods
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Quere, Nolwenn – Research-publishing.net, 2017
Designing and sharing Open Educational Resources (OERs) requires teachers to develop new competences, in particular with digital resources. In this paper, the case of a language resource production group is introduced. Due to the centrality of the OERs in their collective activity, I show that the documents they produce are essential to the…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Technological Literacy
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