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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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Scholkmann, Antonia; Lolle, Elisabeth Lauridsen – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This paper presents a model which can be used to help teachers to design pedagogical opportunities for meaningful reflections in higher education. Within the PBL Future initiative of Aalborg University, we worked with a group of students from different study programmes and levels. In a three-semester long process these students engaged in a series…
Descriptors: Models, Reflection, Higher Education, Learning Activities
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Libertson, Frans – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Humanity is facing an unprecedented challenge of climate crises. Rapid changes to the physical environment and living conditions will be accompanied by challenges to mental health and well-being. Consequently, education for sustainable development should also include coping strategies for stress and anxiety. Adding intra-personal skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Climate
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Thompson, David; Meer, Nicky – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2021
Encouraging all students to meaningfully engage with feedback on summative assessments is a vexing challenge for educators (Watling, 2016). Using formative feedback techniques as a formal part of a summative assessment allows for a guaranteed 'feed forward'. Group crits in the form of students and staff viewing their own and others work in an…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Ferris, Jennie; Samuel, Carolyn – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2020
Professional development offerings for current and aspiring educational developers can be sparse and neither fully contextually appropriate nor personally relevant given the range of experiences people bring to the field. In the absence of suitable professionalization programs, we created a self-defined professional development approach to support…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Development, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
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Veine, Sven; Anderson, Martha Kalvig; Andersen, Nina Haugland; Espenes, Thomas Christian; Søyland, Tove Bredesen; Wallin, Patric; Reams, Jonathan – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
Experiential learning (EL) has great potential to prepare students to work on interdisciplinary and global challenges across traditional boundaries, as well as support them in the development of reflective skills. In this study, we explore reflection as a central element for EL in the university wide interdisciplinary course Experts in Teamwork…
Descriptors: Reflection, Learning Activities, Higher Education, Experiential Learning
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Paul Acquaro – International Journal of Online Graduate Education, 2020
In the following paper, the author identifies two overarching challenges in developing effective online learning courses and provides an easy to implement framework to address them. The first challenge is that social activity, a key aspect to learning, often falls short in the development of online learning courses. The second challenge is student…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Barriers, Interpersonal Relationship
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Bennett, Dawn; Reid, Anna; Rowley, Jennifer – International Journal of Music Education, 2017
A presumption behind work-integrated learning activities such as internship programmes is that student thinking will shift as a result of exposure to industry practice. We wondered if all students experience this change in the positive sense that teachers expect. To examine this presumption we asked to what extent and in what ways students…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Music, Music Education, Musicians
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Burgess-Van Aken, Barbara – College Teaching, 2017
A literature review on approaches to a final course session reveals a dearth of attention to the issue. Options for last-day activities fall into three categories: professor-centered, activity-focused, and student-driven. Using the criterion that meaningful course closure calls for last-day activities that engage students in reflection not only…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Lesson Plans, Learning Activities, Behavioral Objectives
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Ramsay, Crystal M.; Guo, Xiuyan; Pursel, Barton K. – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2017
Although learning spaces research is not new, research approaches that target the specific teaching and learning experiences of faculty and students who occupy active learning classrooms (ALCs) is nascent. We report on two novels data collection approaches: Flashbacks and Re-Captures. Both leverage faculty reflective practice and provide windows…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Technological Literacy
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Vinall, Kimberly – L2 Journal, 2016
Cultural and literary texts are used in the foreign language classroom to support learners' language development, cultural awareness, and reading comprehension. While classroom activities frequently facilitate a literal understanding of facts and events, these texts offer another potential level of analysis: symbolic dimensions, which focus on how…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness
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Beaven, Ana; Golubeva, Irina – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2016
Higher education (HE) student mobility offers the opportunity to acquire, among other things, intercultural experience. Nevertheless, it is crucial to prepare students and give them the tools to reflect on their experiences before, during and after study abroad. In this pedagogical paper, we present and discuss "Perceptions of self and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intercultural Communication, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness
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Lautenbach, Geoffrey – Educational Studies, 2014
The emphasis of this paper is on the derivation of design principles from qualitative analysis of student reflections based on their participation in authentic, collaborative and technology-mediated activities. This paper reports on the initial phases of a design-based research project at a comprehensive university in South Africa where the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes, Higher Education
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Zimmermann, Jo An M.; Dupree, Jessica; Hodges, Jan S. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Service learning is a well established pedagogy within higher education. Specifically, service learning allows students to engage in "real world" activities to practice skills and reflect upon their own competence. To enhance the effectiveness of service learning, instructors need to consider a multitude of learning influences. This…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Higher Education
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Swanwick, Ruth; Kitchen, Ruth; Jarvis, Joy; McCracken, Wendy; O'Neil, Rachel; Powers, Steve – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
This paper presents a flexible framework of principles for teaching critical thinking and reflective practice skills at the postgraduate level. It reports on a collaborative project between four UK institutions providing postgraduate programmes in deaf education. Through a critical review of current theories of critical thinking and reflective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Critical Thinking, Reflection
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