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Mooney, Julie A.; Miller-Young, Janice – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Drawing on the qualitative research interview, the authors propose the Educational Development Interview is an important but understudied form of significant conversation and educational development practice. By summarizing types of interviews from educational development literature, and describing our recent use of interviews for producing videos…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Sagy, Ornit; Kali, Yael; Tsaushu, Masha; Tal, Tali – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This study endeavors to identify ways to promote a productive learning culture in higher education. Specifically, we sought to encourage development of internal values in students' culture of learning and examine how this can promote their understanding of scientific content. Set in a high enrollment undergraduate biology course, we designed a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Values Education, Undergraduate Students, Biology
Hockings, Christine; Thomas, Liz; Ottaway, Jim; Jones, Rob – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
Independent learning is one of the cornerstones of UK higher education yet it is poorly understood by students and is seen by politicians as a poor substitute for face to face teaching. This paper explores students' understandings, approaches and experiences of independent learning and how they may become more effective independent learners. This…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Higher Education, Qualitative Research, Student Research
Dyment, Janet; Downing, Jillian; Hill, Allen; Smith, Heidi – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2018
With a view to attracting more students and offering flexible learning opportunities, online teaching and learning is becoming increasingly wide-spread across the higher education sector. This research reports on the experiences of eight initial teacher education students who studied an outdoor education unit in the online space. Using a…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Online Courses, Higher Education, Teacher Education
Rovio-Johansson, Airi – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The purpose of this phenomenographic study is to examine students' knowledge progression in a three-year Bachelor program in Business Administration. Theoretical sampling was used to select nine students from a group of 200 university students admitted to the program. The students were interviewed on three occasions: Year 1, after their Management…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainability, Accounting, Longitudinal Studies
Mahdiuon, Rouhollah; Masoumi, Davoud; Farasatkhah, Maghsoud – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
The article aims to explore the attributes of quality and quality improvement including the process and specific actions associated with these attributes--that contribute enhancing quality in Iranian Virtual Higher Education (VHE) institutions. A total of 16 interviews were conducted with experts and key actors in Iranian virtual higher education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Virtual Universities
Adam, Lee; Anderson, Vivienne; Spronken-Smith, Rachel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Plagiarism is a concept that is difficult to define. Although most higher education institutions have policies aimed at minimising and addressing student plagiarism, little research has examined the ways in which plagiarism is discursively constructed in university policy documents, or the connections and disconnections between institutional and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Plagiarism, Student Attitudes, Educational Policy
Khasanzyanova, Albina – International Review of Education, 2017
It is widely recognised that tertiary education does not provide all of the knowledge and skills required to succeed in modern societies. Personal and interpersonal skills--so-called "soft skills"--are also needed to complement professional skills and expertise, and become an essential part of an individual's personality. One way of…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Volunteers, Questionnaires, Semi Structured Interviews
Serrano, Maria Martinez; O'Brien, Mark; Roberts, Krystal; Whyte, David – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Current forms of marketisation in university systems create pressures towards purely ends-focused expectations among students and have implications for learning and assessment processes. The potential harm that these trends have on "learning" should be resisted by educators and students alike. Critical Pedagogy approaches offer one way…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Student Evaluation, Higher Education, Interviews
Sweetman, Rachel – European Journal of Education, 2017
Learning outcomes are presented as a tool that can enhance teaching and learning in higher education, in particular by fostering student-centred learning. However, the ways in which this change can and should take place and the specific kinds of enhancement involved are often unclear. This article analyses common claims about the advantages of…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Outcomes of Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Odena, Oscar; Burgess, Hilary – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This study considered the sources of facilitating experiences and strategies for thesis writing from doctoral students and graduates (N = 30). The sample was balanced between science and social science knowledge areas, with equal numbers of English as Second Language (ESL) participants in both groups. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were used…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Doctoral Dissertations
Using Action Research to Enhance Learning on End-Use Energy Demand: Lessons from Reflective Practice
Petrova, Saska; Torres Garcia, Miguel; Bouzarovski, Stefan – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This paper responds to the need for a greater integration of energy and environment themes in the higher education curriculum. We explore the practical implications of empowering students towards the implementation of individual action research projects focused on investigating and addressing insufficient or wasteful energy consumption among…
Descriptors: Action Research, Environmental Education, Energy, Energy Conservation
Canboy, Basak; Montalvo, Adolfo; Buganza, M. Carmen; Emmerling, Robert J. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
This paper offers an example of how to introduce student-centred knowledge creation and competency development in a systematic way into a master's programme. The curriculum of a new course called Module 9 was framed according to experiential learning theory. While student teams work on self-selected projects, their learning processes are…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Learning Theories, Student Centered Learning, Curriculum Design
Irwansyah, Dedi – Dinamika Ilmu, 2018
English Language Teaching (ELT) practices are strongly underpinned by an epistemological view. Different beliefs on what constitute as sources of knowledge and methods of knowledge acquisition bring about different instructional implications. The case is true within the context of ELT at Indonesian Islamic higher education where the desired goals…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Higher Education, Islamic Culture, Teaching Methods
Boyes, Mike; Potter, Tom – Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 2015
This research examined the decisions that highly experienced outdoor leaders made on backpacking expeditions conducted by a tertiary institution in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. The purpose of the research was to document decision problems and explore them as Recognition-Primed Decisions (RPD) within naturalistic decision making (NDM)…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Decision Making, Interviews, Administrator Attitudes