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Stedman, Nicole L.P.; Adams-Pope, Brittany L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to begin exploring the nature of leadership behavior and style, as it relates to team functionality. The extent to which the problems we face grow and become more complex; solutions require multiple perspectives, requiring researchers to be prepared to lead large groups of collaborators from a variety of disciplines.…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Teamwork, Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership
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Karlgren, Klas; Lakkala, Minna; Toom, Auli; Ilomäki, Liisa; Lahti-Nuuttila, Pekka; Muukkonen, Hanni – Research Papers in Education, 2020
The "Collaborative Knowledge Practices Questionnaire" (CKP) is an instrument designed to measure the learning of knowledge-work competence in education. The focus is on qualities of knowledge work which can be learned and taught in multiple educational settings and which may be especially important for courses with collaborative…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Knowledge Level, Finno Ugric Languages, College Students
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González-Carrasco, Mònica; Francés Ortega, Jesús; de Castro Vila, Rodolfo; Castañer Vivas, Margarida; San Molina, Joan; Marti Bonmati, Joan – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2016
This work describes an experience conducted by a group of professors from different departments at the University of Girona (Catalonia, Spain) which arose from the need for interdisciplinary work in university classrooms in order to promote competences relevant to the professional sector. As part of this experience, students from different degree…
Descriptors: College Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Fomunyam, Kehdinga George; Teferra, Damtew – Perspectives in Education, 2017
South African higher education in the past year has seen violent calls for decolonisation of the curriculum, as a way of addressing the passive nature of education. The inability of the curriculum to respond to contextual issues, empower students to come of age, while at the same time remain committed to giving them a plurality of voices has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Cultural Context
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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
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Ghazavi, Mansuoreh; Nasr, Ahmad Reza; Jafari, Ebrahim Mirshah; Mosapour, Neamatollah – International Education Studies, 2016
The move on decentralization of curriculum development in recent decade has become one of the major tasks in developing scientific fields in Iran. By implementing these programs some drawbacks have become evident. The objective of this study was to identify and assess the existing challenges involved in the development of academic disciplines from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Innovation
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Poole, Heather; Khan, Ayesha; Agnew, Michael – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2017
More and more Canadian post-secondary institutions are introducing a fall break into their term calendars. In 2015, a full week fall break was introduced at our university in order to enhance academic performance and improve mental health amongst students. Our interdisciplinary team surveyed undergraduate students at our university about their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Undergraduate Students
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Turunen Olsson, Pernilla; Weurlander, Maria; Mattiasson, Anne-Cathrine; Wärn Hede, Gunnel; Panagiotidis, Georgios; Broberger, Eva; Hult, Håkan; Wernerson, Annika – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
Traditionally, nursing students learn medical subjects and nursing separately, which makes it difficult to develop an integrated understanding. This study aimed to explore nursing students' experiences of participating in a case seminar integrating medical and nursing sciences and if, and how, it contributed to their learning. A case seminar…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Seminars, Medicine
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Cadez, Simon; Dimovski, Vlado; Zaman Groff, Maja – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The workload of most academics involves two main activities: research and teaching. Despite the dual nature of the work, career advancement usually chiefly depends on research performance. Since academics are rational actors, warnings are beginning to emerge that current predominantly research-based performance evaluation systems may be…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, College Faculty, Educational Quality, Higher Education
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Svedin, Maria; Bälter, Olle – Computer Science Education, 2016
The purpose of the present study was to investigate if we could improve retention by redesigning an online programming course from a gender perspective, while maintaining the focus on preferable and sustainable learning approaches. The study builds on results from an earlier study that investigated the relationship between approaches to learning…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Programming, Computer Science Education, Gender Differences
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Shiller, Zvi – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
This article presents a case study that illustrates the paradigmatic shift in higher education from content-centered teaching to learning-centered academic programs. This pragmatic change, triggered by the STEM movement, calls for the introduction of success measures in the course development process. The course described in this paper illustrates…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Aslam, D. M.; Abu-Ageel, A.; Alfatlawi, M.; Varney, M. W.; Thompson, C. M.; Aslam, S. K. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
As inspirations from flora and fauna have led to many advances in modern technology, the concept of drawing ideas from nature for design should be reflected in engineering education. This paper focuses on a maple-seed robotic flier (MRF) with various complexities, a robotic platform modeled after the samaras of maple or ash trees, to teach STEM…
Descriptors: Robotics, Entrepreneurship, Engineering Education, Science Instruction
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Ye, Zhou – English Language Teaching, 2016
In present China, bilingual teaching, as an education model, can meet an urgent demand for increasing interdisciplinary talents who have high levels of professional knowledge as well as competent foreign language abilities to deal with the ever-increasing global social, economic, scientific and technological exchanges, and international…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Learning Motivation, Instructional Materials, Bilingual Teachers
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Arsenault, Paul M.; Stevenson, Linda S. – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2013
One of the greatest challenges facing social science and marketing programs in the start of the 21st century is how to "globalize" our curriculums, so that our tech-savvy, but often internationally and cross-culturally inexperienced students have, understand, and are prepared to embrace the diverse opportunities that will be an…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Political Science, Marketing, Global Approach
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Suomi, Kati – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2014
This exploratory study examines the dimensions that are relevant to brand reputation, particularly in the context of master's degree programmes. The data analysis is based on Vidaver-Cohen's "Business school quality dimensions and reputational attributes". The qualitative data for the case study comprise a student questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reputation, Masters Programs, Educational Quality
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