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Estimating Learning Assistance Skills Using Learning Analytics
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Watanabe, Hiroyuki; Goda, Yoshiko; Shimada, Atsushi; Yamada, Masanori – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2021
Learning assistance is an essential part of higher education. Tutors, the core of the assistance staff, need to have learning assistance skills. If the potential for these skills can be identified when selecting tutors, the training method will be more efficient. Also, learning assistance skills are thought to be related to learning skills.…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Higher Education, Tutors, Learning Processes
Mission Completed? Changing Visibility of Women's Colleges in England and Japan and Their Roles in Promoting Gender Equality in Science
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Kodate, Naonori; Kodate, Kashiko; Kodate, Takako – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2010
The global community, from UNESCO to NGOs, is committed to promoting the status of women in science, engineering and technology, despite long-held prejudices and the lack of role models. Previously, when equality was not firmly established as a key issue on international or national agendas, women's colleges played a great role in mentoring female…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Mentors, Women Scientists, Foreign Countries
Contribution of Kobe University to the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Hyogo-Kobe
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Itoh, Masayuki; Suemoto, Makoto; Matsuoka, Koji; Ito, Atsushi; Yui, Kiyomitsu; Matsuda, Tsuyoshi; Ishikawa, Masanobu – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) on education for sustainable development (ESD) Hyogo-Kobe, and the contribution of Kobe University as a model case. An attempt to develop and implement a new ESD programme in higher education is also reported. Design/methodology/approach: A brief description…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Action Research, Sustainable Development, Expertise
Reported Belief Changes through Near Peer Role Modeling.
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Murphey, Tim; Arao, Hiroko – TESL-EJ, 2001
Investigated the effect of near peer role models (NPRMs). Examined the impact of a video with four exemplary, slightly older Japanese NPRMs in a Japanese English department--who were expressing beliefs and attitudes thought to facilitate second language acquisition--on non-English majors in obligatory English courses. Results show students'…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Student Attitudes to Non-Japanese Language Instructors in Japan.
Christensen, Torkil – Hokusei Junior College Bulletin, 1987
A 1984 survey of 830 students at 3 private colleges in Sapporo, Japan investigated perceptions of non-Japanese language teachers as role models (persons who are not actively seeking to alter the behavior of those around them) and social change agents (persons who actively attempt to initiate or serve as a catalyst in community improvement). The…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Foreign Nationals, Higher Education
Literacy across Cultures, 2001.
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Dycus, David, Ed. – Literacy across Cultures, 2001
This collection of articles includes: "Implementing Discourse Analysis for Intermediate and Advanced Language Learners" (Maria Palmira Massi); "A Comparison of Front-Page News in Japanese and British Quality Press Newspapers: Cultural Differences Reflected in the Press" (Christopher Bond); "Have You Ever Heard of Ogino…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)