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Direct linkLydia Horne; Amanda Manzanares; Nicholas Babin; Emily A. Royse; Lee Arakawa; Eunice Blavascunas; Lisa Doner; Daniel Druckenbrod; Ennea Fairchild; Meghann Jarchow; Barry R. Muchnick; Prajjwal Panday; Denielle Perry; Rebecca Thomas; Anne Toomey; Brian H. Tucker; Camille Washington-Ottombre; Shirley Vincent; Steven W. Anderson; Chelsie Romulo – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. The interdisciplinary nature of IES programs does not lend itself to traditional…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Higher Education
Graham F. Hunter – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2024
Utilizing interviews with 44 full-time HESA faculty members, this study explores how they describe planning for individual courses. Findings suggest a model of course planning in which faculty members enter the process with particular beliefs and then make decisions as they consider existing syllabi, course objectives, course content, and student…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Courses, Course Descriptions, Course Content
Mandy Barefoot; J. Michael Martinez – Sport Management Education Journal, 2025
Sport-sales-specific coursework is emerging as a crucial addition to sport management curricula for a variety of institutions. However, a new sport sales course can present instructors with the unique challenge of developing a course without any departmental precedent. The current study collected syllabi from recent sport sales courses to provide…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Sales Occupations, Merchandising, Salesmanship
Download full textKleb Dale G. Bayaras – Online Submission, 2023
In course design, topic outline organization encompasses the structuring and sequencing of topics to be delivered in a learning environment. Recent studies in topic outline optimization revolve around massive open online courses (MOOCs) due to their abundance but not much has been studied on the traditional courses. This study investigates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Introductory Courses, Programming
Craig I. Johnson; Lucy E. Hyde; Thomas Cornwall; Michelle Spear – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
At the University of Bristol, we established a novel dissection course to complement our anatomy degree. Students enrolled in this undergraduate course are trained as comparative anatomists, with equal time given to both human and veterinary anatomy. Historically, students opted to dissect either human or veterinary donors as part of the course.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Courses, Anatomy
Sarah Rose Fitzgerald; Christine Turner; Anne Graham – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This study investigates how instructors consider resource cost and availability when compiling assignments in their course syllabi. It uses the academic planning model from Lattuca and Stark to frame the influences on instructional material selection. It employs a critical incident technique method, asking instructors to take into account one…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Costs, Instructional Materials, Educational Resources
Fiona A. E. McQuarrie – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2024
The purpose of this report is to examine and compare course outlines at BC Transfer System member institutions, and to provide recommendations for course outline content and format to facilitate request for transfer credit. This project examined course outlines and/or syllabi from 36 BC Transfer System member institutions, along with each…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Transfer Policy, Educational Policy, Institutional Cooperation
Marianne Grace Araneta; Marica Liotino; Taiwo Isaac Olatunji; Monica Fedeli – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Opportunities and concerns regarding the use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education have evolved along with them. A concern is how their use could support the higher-order learning appropriate for higher education. Grounded in the conversational framework, this case study explored how reflective practice could be fostered in a…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
Hubert Izienicki – Teaching Sociology, 2024
Many instructors use a syllabus quiz to ensure that students learn and understand the content of the syllabus. In this project, I move beyond this exercise's primary function and examine students' syllabus quiz scores to see if they can predict how well students perform in the course overall. Using data from 495 students enrolled in 18 sections of…
Descriptors: Tests, Course Descriptions, Performance, Predictor Variables
Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Myers, Scott A.; Wang, Tiffany R.; Westwick, Joshua N. – Communication Education, 2023
Continuing a tradition dating back to 1968, this tenth study in a longitudinal series of surveys of the basic communication course has two goals: (1) to provide descriptive information about the basic course contemporarily and over time; and (2) to propose a framework for interpreting the impact of the extraordinary national and international…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Trend Analysis, Introductory Courses, Higher Education
Yusuf Adam Marafa – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Higher education is rapidly changing, and instructors are striving to match the needs of 21st-century digital learners. There is a growing demand and shift from traditional classes to the online mode of instruction for most post-secondary learning institutions. Additionally, with the recent pandemic (COVID-19), post-secondary institutions had to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, COVID-19, Pandemics
Paul Hanstedt – American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2024
Supplying an insightful introduction to current trends in general education reform, this second edition of "General Education Essentials: A Guide for College Faculty" gives an important, timely overview of general education curricular design. General education curricula provide students with the intellectual flexibility they need to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Guides, Curriculum Design, General Education
Hye Yeon Park; Carlos V. Licon; Jennifer Givens; Ole Russell Sleipness – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the integration of education for sustainable development (ESD) into landscape architecture (LA) programs in North American universities to understand its benefits and challenges and provide insights into the implementation of sustainability principles, pedagogies and teaching methods.…
Descriptors: Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Course Descriptions, Sustainability
Tabiri, Francis; Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald – Cogent Education, 2023
This study investigated the epistemic conventions of pedagogical practices in higher education (HE) from the viewpoints of lecturers. Phenomenological design, focusing on semi-structured interview guide, was considered for the study. Through the purposive sampling technique, 15 lecturers from three departments of institution of higher learning…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Academic Language
Dragica Šalamon; Lucija Blaškovic; Alen Džidic; Filip Varga; Sanja Seljan; Ivana Bosnic – Cogent Education, 2024
Ubiquitous datafication surrounds agriculture stakeholders with data as the raw material for additional value creation, resilience and innovation. Technical and soft competencies of data literacy (DL) are not comprehensively addressed in formal secondary education as an interdisciplinary and general concept. Aiming to assess DL structure set for…
Descriptors: Data, Multiple Literacies, Higher Education, Course Content
