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M. E. Veltman; J. van Keulen; J. M. Voogt – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Professionals are increasingly involved in attempts to understand and address problems with wicked tendencies, which require crossing boundaries between disciplines, organisations and stakeholder perspectives. This multiple-case study investigated six higher professional education courses in order to develop better understanding of how teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Problem Solving, Student Development, Learning Processes
Zhang, Ling; Carter, Richard Allen; Qian, Xueqin; Yang, Sohyun; Rujimora, James; Wen, Shuman – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
This paper aimed to provide a holistic view of research that investigated online learning in higher education around the globe during COVID-19 utilizing a bibliometric analysis. The researchers used co-citation analysis and text mining afforded by VOSviewer to document and analyze research patterns and topics reported in peer-reviewed documents…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Citation Analysis, Electronic Learning, Higher Education
Pablo Flores Romero; Kin Nok Nicholas Fung; Guang Rong; Benjamin Ultan Cowley – npj Science of Learning, 2025
Large Language Models (LLMs) present a radically new paradigm for the study of "information foraging behavior." We study how LLM technology is used for pedagogical content creation by a sample of 25 participants in a doctoral-level Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education course, and the role of computational-thinking skills in shaping…
Descriptors: Man Machine Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Interaction
Therese Ferguson; Saran Stewart; Carmel Roofe; Shenhaye Ferguson – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Within the Caribbean, the number of students pursuing postgraduate studies in higher education institutions (HEIs) has increased over the years. Consequently, locally contextualised epistemologies and empowering methods are needed to help adult learners in Caribbean higher education (HE) navigate their studies. This paper presents findings from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Student Experience, Photography
Line Togsverd; Oline Pedersen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This paper contributes to the expanding body of research on Playful Learning (PL) within Higher Education (HE), offering an in-depth examination of narratives concerning student participation and engagement in PL emerging as educators reflect on their experiences with PL in Danish teacher education and social education. In attempt to nuance and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Interpersonal Competence, Higher Education
Carla Janell Pattin – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2022
This essay recounts efforts to teach liberal arts to engineering, nursing, pharmacy, and pre-medicine majors. Showing how various forms of public media reinforce harmful ideologies about social identities in the United States serves as a convergence between preprofessional disciplines and the liberal arts. At the same time, City as Text™ offers…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Liberal Arts, Engineering Education, Nursing Education
Neber, Heinz – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2020
Implementing programs for gifted students requires solutions on multiple levels of the education system. In this article, Heinz Neber suggests streamlining the topic with five interacting, systemic levels. Each level requires its own definitions and clarifications. These should be coordinated and prioritized according to prominent goals and…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Academically Gifted, Instructional Improvement, Program Implementation
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
Daniel, Wallace – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2022
Building on classical and recent studies of the learning paradigm of higher education, the author distinguishes between receiving ideas and using them and how universities might educate students to be more open to the world, open to discovery and creativity. [This is a reprint of an article originally published in "New Directions for Teaching…
Descriptors: Universities, Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Creativity
Latta, Mark; Kruger, Tina M.; Payne, Lindsey; Weaver, Laura; VanSickle, Jennifer L. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
Mitchell (2008) asks faculty to adopt "a 'critical' approach to community service learning" (p. 50), one that focuses on social change, redistribution of power, and the development of authentic relationships. However, the path of transformation from "traditional" to "critical" service-learning practices remains…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Social Change, Power Structure, Transformative Learning
Developing Mathematical Knowledge and Skills through the Awareness Approach of Teaching and Learning
Cherif, Abour H.; Gialamas, Stefanos; Stamati, Angeliki – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Every object we think of or encounter, whether a natural or human-made, has a regular or irregular shape. In its own intrinsic conceptual design, it has elements of mathematics, science, engineering, and arts, etc., which are part of the object's geometric shape, form and structure. Geometry is not only an important part of mathematics, but it is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills, Skill Development, Mathematics Instruction
Gaviola Feck, Dolores – ProQuest LLC, 2016
People are self-learning on the Internet and the various eLearning freeware tools of the 21st century diffuses a whole new pedagogy; yet, generational trends from organizations, corporations, and academic institutions minimally show implementation of various blended learning approaches online into their organizational culture and climate. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Organizational Culture, Organizational Climate
Collins, Gary W.; Knoetze, Johan G. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Information communication technology is capable of contributing supplementary teaching and learning strategies that can be used to address various educational challenges faced by higher education. Students who enter South African higher education institutions are often academically under-prepared and have not developed the cognitive skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Higher Education, Educational Technology
Selco, Jodye; Bruno, Mary; Chan, Sue – Journal of Chemical Education, 2013
Understanding how the periodic table of elements is organized and how to read information from it is fundamental for understanding chemistry. Introductory chemistry courses usually include discussions detailing what elemental information can be determined by virtue of its position on the periodic table. Although many people have been exposed to…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Hands on Science, Tables (Data), Science Instruction
Daly, Paula S.; White, Marion M.; Zisk, Daniel S.; Cavazos, David E. – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2013
This article draws from the current literature to examine problem-based learning (PBL) as a management education tool, and provides an example of how to incorporate PBL into an undergraduate international management course. Also included are an explanation of, and specific guidelines for, a PBL exercise focused on the analysis of "country risk"…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Problem Based Learning, Administrator Education, Business Administration Education