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Lucía Márquez; Valeria Henríquez; Henrique Chevreux; Eliana Scheihing; Julio Guerra – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Learning analytics (LA) is an emerging area that has had extensive development in higher education in recent years, focused both on the learning process of students within subjects and on monitoring their trajectories in training programmes. However, most of the developments remain in the pilot phase without reaching institutional adoption. This…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Analytics, Ethics, Leadership
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Kerry Shephard – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
Universities in Aotearoa New Zealand are increasingly espousing a democratic ideology that has much in common with some social justice elements of the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals. This trend, however, also relates to the more international 'universal' characterisation proposed by Trow in 1973 in the context of university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Professionalism, Social Justice, Democracy
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Ziqian Liu; Zhuo Wang – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
Concept maps have been used widely in various subjects of K-12 and higher education for diverse purposes. Digital concept maps (DCM) provide even more benefits, such as higher efficiency, expanded canvas, and multimedia integration. The present paper sought to analyze the research and application trends and issues in DCM research and practices…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Literature Reviews, Educational Research, Trend Analysis
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Wanjohi, Lucy – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2020
Much development has happened in the education sector in African countries. In Kenya, there has been a proliferation of institutions of higher learning. Severe cuts in government funding for public higher education have resulted in the privatization of higher education and the need for adjunct faculty as a way to cut costs. Research suggests that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adjunct Faculty, Faculty Development, College Faculty
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Langenhagen, Julian – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
Although badges are among the most-used game elements in gamified education, studies about their optimal features to motivate learning are scarce. How should a badge be designed to represent an incentive for a specific goal like optimal exam preparation? This study examines usage data of a higher education learning app to determine whether the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Goal Orientation, Computer Software, Game Based Learning
Boothe, Casey M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
When transitioning to higher education, students need to develop the skills to become self-regulated learners capable of setting their own learning goals and planning and monitoring their learning. Self-regulated learning and academic performance have been shown to positively correlate with effective time management and study skills. There are…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Learning Processes
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Choi, Beomkyu – Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Online learning has been growing steadily as an essential instructional mode in most higher education settings. In response to its popularity, many studies have been conducted to provide a better understanding of how learning occurs in this environment. Various frameworks and theories have been adopted to examine learning in this environment.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Communities of Practice, Metacognition
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Rhéaume, Martine; Slavkov, Nikolay; Séror, Jérémie – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This article focuses on the construct of linguistic risk-taking and outlines a new pedagogical initiative implemented at a Canadian bilingual postsecondary institution. The Linguistic Risk-Taking Initiative aims at encouraging language learners to target specific challenges and seek opportunities to practice their second official language (French…
Descriptors: Risk, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
Rajbhandari, Mani Man Singh – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2018
Obstinate actions-oriented behaviour is the study of learning and practicing behaviour theoractively, which is acquired from the content based, process based learning and spawning critical reflexivity to the learnt theoretical phenomena into practical actions. Obstinate actions-oriented behaviour is a multi-faceted behaviour that is generally…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Goal Orientation, Learning Processes
Rajbhandari, Mani Man Singh – Online Submission, 2018
Obstinate actions-oriented behaviour is the study of learning and practicing behaviour theoractively, which is acquired from the content based, process based learning and spawning critical reflexivity to the learnt theoretical phenomena into practical actions. Obstinate actions-oriented behaviour is a multi-faceted behaviour that is generally…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Goal Orientation, Learning Processes
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Yilmaz, Yakup – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
Teaching-learning activities carried out face-to-face in physical classrooms in higher education have been moved to the online environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic obligation. It is obvious that students' learning experiences and perceptions need to be researched empirically in order to optimize higher education strategies that have been moved…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Higher Education, COVID-19
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Kansal, Monika; Chugh, Ritesh; Weber, Anthony; Macht, Stephanie; Grose, Robert; Shah, Mahsood – Tertiary Education and Management, 2022
The growth in student numbers from the Indian subcontinent countries has increased exponentially in the Australian higher education system over the past decade. Unfortunately, this growth has not been accompanied by initiatives to address the distinctive cross-cultural challenges faced by this cohort. This paper seeks to identify academic and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Decision Making, Video Technology, Teacher Attitudes
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Nasrollahian Mojarad, Sara; Cruz, Laura – To Improve the Academy, 2022
MegaSoTL projects are scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that generate evidence of learning from multiple institutions. While being increasingly practiced, MegaSoTL projects and their potential contribution to improve higher education pedagogy remain understudied in higher education literature. In this article, we introduce…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Higher Education
Hazelwood, Bruce Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Discussions about sports continue to permeate the news and political realms and may prove to be a useful but underutilized tool to teach difficult subjects like race, gender, and sexuality. However, most scholarly work on sport focuses on a specific systemic inequality within a sport and/or how an issue affects sport and thus are sociological in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Higher Education, College Students
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Dwyer, Heather; Smith, Joyya – To Improve the Academy, 2020
This article explores the effectiveness of a mandatory training workshop for faculty. Our center for teaching and learning (CTL) was charged with designing and implementing a diversity training workshop for all full-time faculty. The workshop included an introduction to diversity and inclusion, analysis of microaggressions, discussion of inclusive…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Workshops, Training, Student Diversity
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