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Hanni Muukkonen; Anu Kajamaa – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Background: Higher education is expected to prepare students with interdisciplinary learning (IDL), which is important for their educational and working life opportunities. The cocreation of knowledge in interdisciplinary teams offers multiple opportunities for the emergence of collective knowledge objects (KOs) and knowledge practices (KPs).…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Simulation, Higher Education
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Joshua Meyer – Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This paper addresses a call for submissions to provide greater clarity on the defining features of experiential learning. This is accomplished with a critical review of literature relevant to experiential learning and a qualitative-leading, mixed-method investigation exploring the defining features, canonical works, and theoretical foundations of…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Experience, Personal Autonomy, Teaching Methods
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Gregory, Kenneth J.; Lewin, John – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
Big ideas, sometimes referred to as key, core, fundamental or threshold concepts, are widely applicable concepts at the heart of disciplines that are or have been central and influential for their fields. Attention here is particularly directed to meta-concepts common to sister disciplines in the sciences. "Learning thresholds",…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Intellectual Disciplines, Learner Engagement
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Wan, Han; Zhong, Zihao; Tang, Lina; Gao, Xiaopeng – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2023
Small private online courses (SPOCs) have influenced teaching and learning in China's higher education. Learning management systems (LMSs) are important components in SPOCs. They can collect various data related to student behavior and support pedagogical interventions. This research used feature engineering and nearest neighbor smoothing models…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learning Management Systems, Higher Education, Student Behavior
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Petchey, Sara; Treagust, David; Niebert, Kai – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Abstract concepts dominate university science teaching, and much of this content is taught without sufficient connection to students' prior knowledge or everyday experiences. As this can be problematic for students, the aim of this research was to determine the utility and effectiveness of a professional development module on using analogies to…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Figurative Language
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Julie Rattray – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Higher education is facing increasing calls to engage in a process of intellectual decolonisation. This process necessitates that we take time to consider both the content of our curriculum and the pedagogic practices used to facilitate its understanding. Drawing on discussions of both intellectual decolonisation and its underpinning principles of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Power Structure, Decolonization, Justice
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Paul, L. A.; Quiggin, John – Educational Theory, 2020
Universities aspire to offer students a transformative experience, but rarely spell out the nature of this transformation. In this essay, L. A. Paul and John Quiggin frame the successful university education as transformative in the philosophical sense. They explain the way that a successful college education can be understood as generating an…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Higher Education, Universities, Role of Education
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Calduch, Isaac; Rattray, Julie – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Within the Threshold Concepts Framework, 'postliminal variation' has been defined as the variation in the point and state of exit into a new conceptual space, and the epistemological and ontological terrain encountered from that point onwards. However, in the extensive published literature on threshold concepts, we find many cases in which its…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Higher Education, Concept Formation, World Views
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McGregor, Debra, Ed.; Anderson, Dayle, Ed. – Contributions from Science Education Research, 2023
This book presents a wide range of international perspectives that explore the different ways the diverse forms of drama supports learning in science. It illustrates how learning science by adopting and adapting theatrical techniques can offer more inclusive ways for students to relate to scientific ideas and concepts. The theatrical processes by…
Descriptors: Science Education, Drama, Theater Arts, Teaching Methods
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Galoyan, Tamara; Betts, Kristen – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2021
Transfer of knowledge, skills, and experience is critical in an increasingly competitive knowledge-based global economy. Research indicates major issues relating to transfer of learning, including (a) the complex nature of transfer, (b) the multiple variables affecting transfer, and (c) the limited knowledge of instructional methodologies for…
Descriptors: Models, Transfer of Training, Higher Education, Concept Formation
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Emerson LaCroix – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Experiential education, the process of providing students with applied learning opportunities within and outside the classroom, is rife with organizational complexity. This article examines Ontario's Strategic Mandate Agreements using qualitative content analysis to see how conceptions and communications of experiential learning have changed over…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Experiential Learning, Communication (Thought Transfer), Concept Formation
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Velibor Mladenovici; Mariana Crasovan; Marian D. Ilie – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
Teaching conceptions in higher education, or so-called academics' conceptions of teaching (ACTs), are essential in informing teaching behaviors and influencing students' learning. Consequently, several attempts have been made since the 1990s to understand what ACTs represent and how they can be developed towards student-centered teaching. However,…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Misconceptions, Educational Policy, Definitions
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Schnepp, Jerry; Rogers, Christian – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
Educators face the challenge of continually adapting and evolving their pedagogy to meet the needs of diverse learners. Learner experience design (LX) is a human-centered approach to curriculum and assessment development that is easily learned, adaptable, and repeatable. It focuses on empathy for students and creative problem-solving. In this…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Instructional Design, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
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Crenshaw, Andrea N.; Ramsay-Jordan, Natasha N.; Deskins, Allyson – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2023
Microaggressions are brief and everyday slights, insults, indignities, and denigrating messages sent to people of color and/or marginalized groups (women, LGBTQ+, etc.) by well-intentioned [people] who are unaware of the hidden messages being communicated (Sue et al., 2007). Microaggressions are connected to broader conceptualizations of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, School Personnel, Attitudes, Aggression
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Elisavet Lazarakou – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2024
The paper investigates the potential of utilizing artistic creation as an alternative task for assessing students in a non-artistic course within higher education. Eighteen postgraduate students of the Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, after attending a six-hour course in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary Education
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