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Hampton, Rosalind; Hartman, Michelle – Curriculum Inquiry, 2022
This coauthored article is about building solidarity on Canadian university campuses. We construct a narrative in two registers--one justified left, one justified right--that traces our activism within and beyond the university and how our own solidarity has grown over time and informs our current research collaboration. On the one (left) hand, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Cooperation, Sense of Community
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Kuznetsova, Maria; Gura, Dmitry; Vorona-Slivinskaya, Lubov – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2023
Aim/Purpose: The main purpose is to study the experience of using virtual team building as a means of forming educational and research teams in the context of the development of online education and its effect among students and teachers of higher educational institutions. Background: Methods ensuring effective engagement of students in learning…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Teamwork, Online Courses
Isaac Ahimbisibwe – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Human capital development is crucial for economic growth. Policymakers must understand the factors influencing human capital accumulation since they may vary by setting and sector. For example, micro-enterprise employees enhance their skills through on-the-job training or vocational programs. In educational institutions, family and school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Economic Development, Higher Education
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Wilson, Rachel; Morieson, Lucy – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2022
Since 2011 the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University has been actively supporting an ethos of belonging throughout their learning and teaching. In 2017 'belonging' became a formal university priority, embedded in the institution's strategy and dispersed across Colleges and Schools through a range of activities and interventions.…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Group Unity, Interpersonal Relationship, Sense of Community
Lee, Jeong-Kyu – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study is to explore the importance of ethical value in higher education as well as the relevance between ethical value and higher education. In order to examine the study logically, three research questions are addressed: First, what is value, ethical value, and Asiatic ethical value? Second, for whom and what is higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Ethics, Values
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MacFarlane, Karen – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Student success in higher education (HE) is dependent on the possession of a positive learner identity, the development of which is a complex longitudinal process of change. Exploring the growth of learner identity within the transition between school and university is therefore apposite, especially for learners from disadvantaged backgrounds who…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Success, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
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Varga-Atkins, Tünde; McIsaac, Jaye; Willis, Ian – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
In Higher Education Focus Groups and Nominal Group Technique are two well-established methods for obtaining student feedback about their learning experience. These methods are regularly used for the enhancement and quality assurance. Based on small-scale research of educational developers' practice in curriculum development, this study presents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Focus Groups, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
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Kahu, Ella R.; Nelson, Karen – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Student success and retention continue to be of concern for higher education institutions. Wider participation, combined with lower completion rates for non-traditional students, highlights the need for new ways of understanding the student experience to ground policy and practice. This article provides this insight by drawing together a number of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Well Being, Foreign Countries
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Hendry, Gillian; Wiggins, Sally; Anderson, Tony – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2016
Research has shown that educators may be reluctant to implement group work in their teaching due to concerns about students partaking in off-task behaviours. However, such off-task interactions have been shown to promote motivation, trust, and rapport-building. This paper details a study in which student groups were video recorded as they engaged…
Descriptors: Group Unity, Problem Based Learning, Tutorial Programs, Teaching Methods
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Kamau, Caroline; Spong, Abigail – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Faulty group processes have harmful effects on performance but there is little research about intervention protocols to pre-empt them in higher education. This naturalistic experiment compared a control cohort with an inducted cohort. The inducted cohort attended a workshop, consultations, elected a leader and used tools (a group log and group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Protocol Analysis, Cohort Analysis
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Thorpe, Anthony; Lim, Lynn L. K. – European Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This article examines how the development of techno-marketing campaigns might facilitate the engagement of university students in voluntary activities on campus which promote active citizenship and community cohesion where there is a concern about a low take up of such opportunities. The increasing influence of technology upon the forms of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Marketing, College Students, Citizenship
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Rienties, Bart; Johan, Novie; Jindal-Snape, Divya – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Although many international students experience transitional issues, most research assumes these issues will disappear over time. Using principles of social capital theory, this study addressed whether after three years of study students were able to build multi-national and host social capital links. In this quantitative study of 81 students from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Social Theories, Foreign Students
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Shields, Carmen; McGinn, Michelle K. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
This paper emerges from a narrative inquiry focused on academics' perceptions of marginalization and belonging in Canadian universities. Through multiple conversational interviews over a 4-year period, the 15 participants described the ways they came to learn that the academy is not the benevolent place they had at one time imagined. Participants…
Descriptors: Universities, College Faculty, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Curseu, Petru L.; Pluut, Helen – Studies in Higher Education, 2013
Collaborative learning has important group-level benefits, yet most studies in higher education only focus on individual benefits of collaborative learning experiences. This study extends these insights by testing a model in which teamwork quality mediates the impact of several compositional differences (gender, nationality and teamwork expertise…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teamwork, Higher Education, Gender Differences
Fernandez, Kim – CURRENTS, 2012
Colleges, universities, and independent schools use branding to attract students, keep alumni close, and unite faculty behind the institution. That last bit is key because one can't box and ship global perspectives, personal attention, flexible programs, campus traditions, innovative research, and the limitless other qualities that make…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Private Schools, Advertising
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