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Awdry, Rebecca; Groves, Andrew – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2023
Assignment outsourcing is an intractable challenge for higher education. While various academic and legislative approaches have sought to explain/respond to this problem, recent media, community, and government concerns suggest students are increasingly outsourcing assessments. This paper reports on the qualitative findings of an international…
Descriptors: Assignments, Outsourcing, Higher Education, College Students
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Okeke-Uzodike, O. E.; Chitakunye, Pepukayi – Africa Education Review, 2016
This study contributes to the on-going discourse on calibration among University students. The study examines the understanding of student self-reflectivity in relation to class written tests and assignments, and of the fact that students' expected results rarely match the actual results. A quantitative research approach was adopted to collect…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Business Administration Education, Assignments, Undergraduate Students
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Hulsart, Robyn; McCarthy, Victoria – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2011
A simple Internet search of "academic dishonesty" reveals a continuing conversation among individuals within the academic community who are asking what academic dishonesty is, who is cheating, why students are cheating, and how we stop them from cheating. This article addresses these questions and provides a model for creating a culture of trust…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Cheating, Integrity, Ethics
Hirsch, Karen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the impact of differentiated instructional techniques on non-traditional, adult student engagement in an RN-BSN completion program course. Differentiated instructional techniques have been a staple method of teaching in K-12 education for a number of years. Differentiated instruction (DI) is a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Individualized Instruction, Teaching Methods, Nontraditional Students
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Wittek, Line; Habib, Laurence – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This article focuses on describing the interplay between teaching and learning practices in Higher Education and the disciplinary context of such practices. In particular, it aims to address the question of how course design, teaching, and learning activities take place within a particular academic culture and how those activities mutually shape…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Design, College Instruction
Harrigan, Anne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explored social presence and interactivity in an online undergraduate program designed for adult students. Although social presence and interactivity have been shown to be important contributors to student satisfaction, and therefore essential to student recruitment and retention in online programs, the ultimate goal for the examination…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Assignments, Instructional Design, Online Courses
MacLeod, Fiona – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2009
Background: The BSc Public Health and Health Promotion at University College Cork (UCC) aims to produce graduates who are passionate about their discipline. Teachers need to communicate this "passion" to students, but it can be difficult to know whether this has been achieved. The TFU framework makes such an outcome explicit, through…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Health Promotion, Public Health, Teaching Methods
Kiefer, Kate – 2002
Circa 1984 early practitioners in the composition field imagined a potential blossoming of early efforts in computers and writing that subsequent developments in the field have lost sight of. The expense of developing personal programs, the emergence of word processing software that incorporated many of the mechanical aspects of spelling and style…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Higher Education, Models, Writing Assignments
Steele, Poppy – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this report is to encourage the reader to explore wikis for use in classroom instruction and assignments. The information in this report was gleaned from interviews with various members of higher education as well as recent research by educators. The main problems found in the research with new technologies like wikis in classrooms…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Technology
Mauk, John – 2002
For a growing student demographic, college is not an intellectual or residential destination; rather, it is an intellectual errand. Students are, in the most existential sense, "already gone." For commuter students, academia is "unsituated." That is, they experience academia as moments scattered throughout a day or week. In…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Trends, Higher Education, Student Characteristics
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Mauk, Johnathon – College English, 2003
Illustrates how significant numbers of college students are "lost": they are unsituated in academic space. Suggests a rigorous exploration of the changing academic space outside of school offices and off campuses. Presents 4 assignments that provide a conceptual place (a topic) while also prompting students to make meaning out of the people-places…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Higher Education
Sonnek, Bonnie K. – 2000
The IowaLink Program at the University of Iowa is a two-semester, academic support program for recruited students. The program provides an extended academic transition between high school and college for students who have demonstrated the potential to succeed at Iowa but who do not meet standards for regular admission. One of the features of the…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Environment, First Year Seminars, Higher Education
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Shimko, Robert – Theatre Topics, 2003
Discusses the different requirements of teaching drama students and directing professionals. Outlines a range of dramaturgical action between working to support the artistic interests of an established playwright and instructing a novice playwright in basic approaches. Examines how thinking in terms of a spectrum from neophyte to veteran guides…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Drama, Educational Environment, Higher Education
Justice, Madeline C.; Espinoza, Sue – 1999
Children in today's society must function in many environments. The home, family, school, neighborhood, peers, and society generally shape our children for the future. Teachers, partners of this cyclical challenge, have to be prepared to help students meet the challenges of the world 2000. Teachers can learn to meet this goal by creating learning…
Descriptors: Assignments, Community Development, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Environment
Garside, Colleen – 1996
This paper explores various pedagogical perspectives regarding the use of electronic mail in the classroom as a supplemental and alternative teaching and learning strategy. The paper suggests keeping an electronic journal as a form of writing to clarify and reinforce concepts discussed in class. A brief summary of strategies and assignments are…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Environment, Electronic Mail
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