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Ana Paula Marques; Ana Isabel Couto; Paula Rocha – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2023
In recent years, Portuguese universities have diversified their strategies for the promotion of entrepreneurial education among (under/post) graduates, both through formal education and non-formal and informal activities. Indeed, Higher Education Institutions can provide entrepreneurial learning opportunities for students, stimulating new…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries
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Karen Schrier; Anne Zahradnik; David Shaenfield – Journal of Management Education, 2024
How can educators use games and playful interactions to enhance the practice of skills related to leadership and management? Effective leadership involves a number of skills, such as strategic thinking, perspective-taking, critical thinking, ethical thinking, resource management, and reflection on one's biases. In this article, we will review how…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Educational Innovation, Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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Sutter, Tiffany; Francis, Raymond – Online Submission, 2022
Mentoring fosters an enduring personal relationship between people to cultivate career knowledge, self-identity and transformation, and social and emotional support among other topics in order to help support a future colleague. It is a process embedded into higher education in order to "enhance the academic development (including development…
Descriptors: Mentors, Higher Education, Graduate Students, Educational Benefits
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Madison A. Pollino; Elliot A. Powell; Melissa L. McCormick – Communication Teacher, 2025
This article offers a semester-long approach to using generative AI in the public-speaking course. Using critical communication pedagogy, the authors provide practices to navigate the turbulence that has followed the emergence of publicly available generative AI tools. These tools have received negative attention because of their potential to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Public Speaking, Technology Uses in Education
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Coberly-Holt, Patricia, Ed.; Elufiede, Kemi, Ed. – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2023
The 47th annual conference of the Adult and Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) was held online and in person in March 2023. This year's conference theme is "Workforce Development: Micro-Credentials, Badges, and CEUs." The proceedings are comprised of the following papers: (1) Investing in Adult Learners and Creating Learning Environments…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Higher Education, Labor Force Development, Adult Learning
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Martínez Casanovas, Matilde; Ruíz-Munzón, Noemí; Buil-Fabregá, Marian – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse which are the active learning methodologies, which had better contribute to acquiring competences for sustainable development (SD) in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: Cluster analysis is used to define 252 students' skills patterns and their perception of the different active learning…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Sustainable Development, Active Learning, Student Attitudes
UK Department for Education, 2021
International policy and practice reviews support policy development by learning what works, in what contexts, and why. They also provide the opportunity to consider how that learning might be effectively translated to the English context. Three years after the publication of the 2017 Careers Strategy (ED612489) (Department for Education, 2017),…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Development, Occupational Information, Foreign Countries
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Doherty, Oran; Stephens, Simon – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This paper explores the implications for higher education of the rapid development in technology used by the manufacturing sector. Higher education programmes change or new courses are introduced in attempts to match labour market demands. However, the pace of change in the manufacturing industry challenges the authors to reconceive how…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Higher Education, Labor Market, Labor Needs
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McGuinness, Claire; Fulton, Crystal – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2019
Aim/Purpose: This paper reports on a case study project which had three goals; to develop a suite of original interactive digital skills e-tutorials to be embedded in undergraduate and postgraduate courses; to evaluate the students' experience and engagement with the e-tutorials over one semester; and to explore their general attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Technological Literacy, Creativity, Undergraduate Students
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Heft, Ilea E.; Scharff, Lauren F. V. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
This project evaluated the effectiveness of a course design within an upper-level biology course that incorporated what prior scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research has suggested to be best practices for developing critical thinking skills while also managing the grading load on the instructor. These efforts centered on the…
Descriptors: Habit Formation, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Best Practices
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Wallace, Samuel P. – Basic Communication Course Annual, 2015
The purpose of this essay is to provide clarity and direction for developing and maintaining outcome-driven courses for inclusion in general education curricula. The focus is on the basic course in Communication, but the principles can be applied to nearly any course. The outcome-driven perspective changes many traditional conceptions of the basic…
Descriptors: Communications, Program Development, Sustainability, Higher Education
Tantchou, Pierre Orly M., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This phenomenological qualitative study identified the leadership competencies that distance education (DE) leaders regard as essential to the successful administration of DE programs and courses in contemporary education. The following competencies were discussed in the study: flexibility, collaboration, active listening, communication, empathy,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Leadership Styles, Competence, Phenomenology
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Levant, Yves; Coulmont, Michel; Sandu, Raluca – Accounting Education, 2016
Business simulations are innovative instruction models for active or cooperative learning. In this paper, we look at the social constructionist roots of these education models in light of the current efforts to enhance employability skills in undergraduate and graduate studies. More specifically, we analyse the role of business simulations in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Best Practices, Simulation, Teaching Methods
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Myers, Trina S.; Blackman, Anna; Andersen, Trevor; Hay, Rachel; Lee, Ickjai; Gray, Heather – Journal of Learning Design, 2014
Flexible online delivery of tertiary ICT programs is experiencing rapid growth. Creating an online environment that develops team building and interpersonal skills is difficult due to factors such as student isolation and the individual-centric model of online learning that encourages discrete study rather than teamwork. Incorporating teamwork…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Online Courses, Teaching Methods
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Elufiede, Kemi, Ed.; Olson, Joann S., Ed.; Murray-Johnson, Kayon, Ed. – Adult Higher Education Alliance, 2018
The 42st annual conference of the Adult and Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) was held at the University of Central Florida in March 2018 and explored the theme, "Quality of Life in Adult Learning." The purpose of the Adult and Higher Education Alliance (AHEA) is to help institutions of higher education develop and sustain learning…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Adult Learning, Higher Education, Best Practices
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