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Clayton Smith; Geri Salinitri; Kendra Hart – International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, 2024
Purpose: This study provides insight into the nature of peer-mentoring opportunities for teacher candidates, including common challenges and benefits that can be used to inform best practices for implementing peer-mentoring programs by higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative interviews were conducted to glean…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Peer Relationship, Mentors
Cother, Genevieve June; Cother, Robert Fletcher; Woodworth, William Stanley; Souster, Leslie John; Moriarty, Daniel; Miller, Luke; Chugg, Roxanne; Cother, Christine Sophia – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2019
Feedback from companies forming a community of practice in Tasmania, Australia, is that there is a need for a framework for self-directed action learning within each organisation as well as across the action learning community. Senior management report that there is a 'falling away' after a facilitated action learning intervention concludes and,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Organizational Culture, Learning Processes
Dougherty, Cynthia; Fields, Noelle L.; Schuman, Donna – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2017
Graduates of social work doctoral programs are an integral part of social work education and, as faculty, training of BSW and MSW students. Missing from the literature are theoretical frameworks that advance the study of "what works and for whom" in social work doctoral education. Building upon the existing literature, this article…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Social Work, Student Experience, Educational Change
Shannon, Patrick – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2019
Online programs are often viewed as a cost-efficient strategy for increasing revenue for shrinking university budgets but this may not be an accurate assessment. Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) is a budgeting model that is purported to increase efficient delivery of academic programs. As RCM budgeting models have been embraced, many…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Work, Cost Effectiveness, Budgeting
Wesley, Alexa; Parnell, Amelia; Askin, Jacalyn – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2020
Higher education is deploying a range of innovative strategies in response to rising costs and financial challenges. This report presents findings from a NASPA [National Association of Student Personnel Administrators] study on cost-saving initiatives at three institutions. Each institution aimed to creatively address different areas affecting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cost Effectiveness, Professional Associations, Student Personnel Workers
Lochner, Bianca; Conrad, Rita-Marie; Graham, Edward – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This study examined the concerns of U.S. secondary teachers regarding the adoption of learning management systems (LMSs) utilizing the concerns-based adoption model (CBAM). The stages of concern questionnaire used enabled the strength of teacher concerns to be measured for seven distinct stages of concerns: awareness, informational, personal,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Database Management Systems, Adoption (Ideas), Models
Mihai, Maryke; Nieuwenhuis, Jan – South African Journal of Education, 2015
This study concerns the management of an interactive whiteboard (IWB) network started in April 2008 in Mpumalanga, with a leading school partnered with several disadvantaged schools, transmitting lessons in Mathematics and Science. Many educational institutions try to provide learners with better learning opportunities by equipping schools with…
Descriptors: Information Networks, Rural Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Mathematics Instruction
Russell, Jennifer Lin; Sabina, Lou L. – Journal of School Leadership, 2014
Many school districts struggle to recruit sufficient high-quality principals for their schools. A variety of conditions contribute to this challenge, including the retirement of the baby boom cohort and diminishing interest in administrative careers due to the expanded responsibilities of school principals. In response, districts enact a range of…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrative Change, Educational Practices, Administrative Policy
Krishnan, Poornima – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Recent growth in offshore outsourcing of information systems (IS) services is accompanied by managing the offshore projects successfully. Much of the project failures can be attributed to geographic and organizational boundaries which create differences in culture, language, work patterns, and decision making processes among the offshore project…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Cultural Differences, Social Capital, Information Technology
Manu, Christopher; Walker, Derek H. T. – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate how lessons learned from a case study of a construction project undertaken in the Pacific Islands relates to the interaction between social capital and knowledge transfer. The paper is reflective in nature focusing upon the experiences of one of the authors, being a Pacific Islander and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Social Capital, Construction Programs, Program Administration