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Miller, Faye; Partridge, Helen; Bruce, Christine; Hemmings, Brian – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
This article presents a "knowledge ecosystem" model of how early career academics experience using information to learn while building their social networks for developmental purposes. Developed using grounded theory methodology, the model offers a way of conceptualising how to empower early career academics through (1) agency…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Informal Education, Career Academies, Models
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Ravn, Ib; Elsborg, Steen – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2011
The typical conference consists of a series of PowerPoint presentations that tend to render participants passive. Students of learning have long abandoned the transfer model that underlies such one-way communication. We propose an alternative theory of conferences that sees them as a forum for learning, mutual inspiration and human flourishing. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Instructional Design
Toth, Kate E.; McKey, Colleen A. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2010
The purpose of faculty development in terms of the educational role is to assist faculty in becoming better educators. Educational peer review (EPR) is one method of faculty development. This article is based on a study that explored the different development needs of nursing faculty within a school of nursing at an Ontario university. The study…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Program Design, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
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McConnell, David; And Others – Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1997
A study was conducted to investigate the views of 40 Australian service providers on the support and service needs of parents with intellectual disabilities and to discover key issues faced by the providers. The special needs of the parents, desirable service characteristics, and constraints on service delivery are identified. (CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Delivery Systems, Design Preferences, Family Needs
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Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
School classes can be conceptualized as bounded communities of practice made up of teachers and students working together to build knowledge. Teachers make design decisions about physical and virtual spaces supported by information and communications technologies, and about curriculum. Design influences how students go about their work, and their…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Communities of Practice, Educational Environment, Program Design