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Marianna Pagkratidou; Michalis P. Michaelides; Vasiliki Pitsia; Anastasios Karakolidis – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2025
Science, technology engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions offer competitive earnings, tend to be compatible with technological advances, and are predicted to remain in high demand in the future. Many countries, including Greece, have prioritised STEM education on their educational agendas, aiming to prepare students for careers in these…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, Occupational Aspiration, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Bonello, Marjorie; Wright, Jon; Morris, Jane; Sadlo, Gaynor – Studies in Continuing Education, 2018
Interprofessional education (IPE) is perceived to be one strategy to reduce professional compartmentalisation and improve collaborative practices. The unequal power relations existing between the various professions who need to collaborate for IPE remains largely unexamined and it is only in recent years that sociological theories have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Williams, Brett; Beovich, Bronwyn – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2017
Background: The use of casual staff within the university undergraduate educational setting is a widespread phenomenon worldwide. However a lack of understanding exists regarding experiences of recruitment, support, professional development and other perceived professional needs in this area. Although previous studies of the experience of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Part Time Faculty, Undergraduate Study, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Watson, Jo; Grenfell, Michael – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2016
The article reports on a study of methodological innovation involving occupational therapy (OT) students in higher education (HE). It is based on an original project which examined the experiences and outcomes of non-traditional entrants to pre-registration OT education. A feature of the original project was the application of the epistemological…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Nontraditional Students, Higher Education
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Cordiner, Moira – International Journal for Academic Development, 2014
Much has been written about academic developers as change agents but not in an interprofessional education (IPE) context. IPE involves teaching students in different health professions how to work effectively in teams across professional boundaries to improve the quality of patient care. Extensive evidence reveals that implementing sustainable IPE…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Change Agents, Professional Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Colthorpe, Kay; Zimbardi, Kirsten; Ainscough, Louise; Anderson, Stephen – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015
It is well established that a student's capacity to regulate his or her own learning is a key determinant of academic success, suggesting that interventions targeting improvements in self-regulation will have a positive impact on academic performance. However, to evaluate the success of such interventions, the self-regulatory characteristics of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Self Control
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Aston, Megan; Breau, Lynn; MacLeod, Emily – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2014
Effective and therapeutic relationships between health care providers and clients are important elements for positive health outcomes. Children with intellectual disabilities (IDs) and their parents face unique challenges in establishing relationships with health care providers due to social and institutional stigma and stereotypes associated with…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Intellectual Disability, Parents, Nurses
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Dune, Tinashe; Bidewell, John; Firdaus, Rubab; Kirwan, Morwenna – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2016
Bringing popular culture to tertiary education can potentially increase student engagement with learning tasks and content, especially when the learning task has students producing the content. Using a single-group intervention plus post-test design, this study implemented and evaluated a purposely developed learning and teaching innovation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Vitinš, Maris; Rasnacs, Oskars – Informatics in Education, 2012
Information and communications technologies today are used in virtually any university course when students prepare their papers. ICT is also needed after people are graduated from university and enter the job market. This author is an instructor in the field of informatics related to health care and social sciences at the Riga Stradins…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Assignments, Information Science, Data Processing