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David Hemer – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2023
Whilst there has been significant focus on STEM in Australian education for several years, there has been very little focus on the integration of Digital Technologies (especially coding) with the other STEM disciplines. Similarly, high school mathematics education remains largely a standalone discipline. This paper describes a full year…
Descriptors: Coding, High School Teachers, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries
Domínguez, César; Jaime, Arturo; Heras, Jónathan; García-Izquierdo, Francisco J. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2019
This study analyzes the impact of adding a review exercises module to an online tool used in a software engineering degree program. The objective of the module is to promote students' self-learning effort to improve their performance. We also intend to determine if this new feature has any effect on the amount of code copies detected in lab…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education
Jacobsen, Michele; Eaton, Sarah Elain; Brown, Barb; Simmons, Marlon; McDermott, Mairi – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2018
There is a global trend toward improving programs and student experiences in higher education through curriculum review and mapping of degree programs. This paper describes an action research approach to program improvement for a course-based MEd degree. The driver for continual program improvement came from actions and recommendations that arose…
Descriptors: Action Research, Program Improvement, Masters Programs, Teacher Education Programs
Garrett, Frances; Price, Matt; Strazds, Laila; Walker, Dawn – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2019
This report introduces a two-week workshop on web coding and environmental sustainability at a school for girls in Northeastern India. Our discussion of this teaching project reviews issues that shaped the project's development, outlines resources required for implementation, and summarizes the workshop's curriculum. High-speed Internet will soon…
Descriptors: Coding, Teaching Methods, Females, Sustainability
Goodwin, Adam; Chittle, Laura; Dixon, Jess C.; Andrews, David M. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
A multi-disciplinary academic unit at a Canadian university completed an evaluation of course syllabi used in its undergraduate programmes over the previous five years. This paper examines the reasons for the evaluation, the processes employed to collect and analyse the data, and how the results will be incorporated into the next steps of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation, Course Descriptions
Kieu, Thi Kinh; Singer, Jane; Gannon, Tracey Jean – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify challenges in education for sustainable development (ESD) implementation in teacher education institutions (TEIs) in Vietnam and propose some appropriate solutions to advance ESD in training teachers toward sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The authors interviewed ten lecturers and 75…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, College Faculty, Preservice Teachers
Bajpai, Shrish; Khare, Sushant – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2015
Present paper aims to give an insight in the field of Mechatronics, specifically its standard of education in India. We have investigated this field right from its origin. We have analyzed how it expanded as a proper discipline of engineering and in which direction the development in this field is going now and, at the same time, its status of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Laboratories
Bingham, Tricia; Reid, Stephanie; Ivanovic, Vanda – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2016
In 2012, and 2014 Libraries and Learning Services from the University of Auckland created two online courses to introduce students to the concept of academic integrity and its associated values and expectations. The challenge was to introduce the somewhat dry subject matter to a diverse group of students in an engaging way and to avoid large…
Descriptors: Integrity, Online Courses, Library Services, Course Descriptions
Safari, Parvin; Rashidi, Nasser – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2015
Kumaravadivelu's (2003) introduction and development of "postmethod" led to the demise of methods and a dramatic change in the language teaching profession. In fact, it can be claimed that the arrival of postmethod pedagogy in language teaching might be the reason for the abandonment and replacement of method by context sensitive,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Fouberg, Erin H. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2013
Through qualitative analysis of 80 student essays, the author examines geographic concepts students describe as holding traits of threshold concepts. With a group of 11 Honors students, the author employs metacogntion, asking students to analyze their own learning to discover their threshold concepts. Recognizing the role of liminality, this study…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, World Geography, Essays, Qualitative Research
Vivian, Rebecca; Falkner, Katrina; Falkner, Nickolas; Tarmazdi, Hamid – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
Although teamwork has been identified as an essential skill for Computer Science (CS) graduates, these skills are identified as lacking by industry employers, which suggests a need for more proactive measures to teach and assess teamwork. In one CS course, students worked in teams to create a wiki solution to problem-based questions. Through a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Collaborative Writing, Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer Science Education
Yin, Zihan – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2015
Many studies have found EFL/ESL learners over/under/misuse linking adverbials. Because their use is specific to genre and register (Biber et al., 1999), and news writing is a compulsory course for EFL journalism majors at many Chinese universities, this study investigates their usage patterns in news and suggests teaching material design for the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, News Reporting
Bensen, Hanife; Silman, Fatos – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2012
Problem Statement: Curriculum development involves the process of planning, setting up and running courses. The knowledge about designing syllabi, making choices of content and materials and assessing student performances plays an important role in curriculum development. Syllabus design is one aspect of curriculum development. It covers the kind…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development
Thorsteinsson, Gisli – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2014
This paper reports a case study series of four related case study lessons, set up as a course using a Virtual Reality Learning Environment (VRLE) to support the students' ideation skills in Innovation Education (IE) in Icelandic conventional classroom. The IE course content and preparation is described. Overall aims, objectives and research…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Case Studies, Online Courses, Educational Innovation