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Integrating Inquiry-Guided Learning across the Curriculum: The Top 25 Project at Miami University
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Taylor, Beverley A. P.; Bakker, Andrea I.; Nadler, Marjorie Keeshan; Shore, Cecilia; Dietz-Uhler, Beth – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
In 2006, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) launched a major initiative, the Top 25 Project, to embed inquiry-guided learning (IGL) into its largest-enrollment courses across the university. These are generally entry-level classes and thus affect many students: 75 percent of incoming students on its main campus in 2010 were in at least one Top 25…
Descriptors: Models, Large Group Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Instructional Design
Teaching for Change: Learning Partnerships and Epistemological Growth
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Olsen, Deborah; Bekken, Barbara M.; McConnell, Kathryne Drezek; Walter, Charles T. – Journal of General Education, 2011
Baxter Magolda's Learning Partnerships model was used to create a program designed to foster student epistemological development. To assess its effectiveness, the Measure of Epistemological Reflection was administered to the experimental cohort and a comparable group in the traditional general education program. Results indicate that the model…
Descriptors: General Education, Epistemology, Program Effectiveness, Models
Globalized Computing Education: Europe and the United States
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Scime, A. – Computer Science Education, 2008
As computing makes the world a smaller place there will be an increase in the mobility of information technology workers and companies. The European Union has recognized the need for mobility and is instituting educational reforms to provide recognition of worker qualifications. Within computing there have been a number of model curricula proposed…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Global Approach
Professional Issues in Therapeutic Recreation: On Competence and Outcomes. 2nd Edition
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Stumbo, Norma J., Ed. – Sagamore Publishing LLC, 2009
The second edition of "Professional Issues in Therapeutic Recreation: On Competence and Outcomes" is greatly expanded to include a wider variety of introductory materials and updates on current professional issues. The second edition represents a timely review of the state of affairs in the profession of therapeutic recreation. This book contains…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Quality, Ethics, Therapeutic Recreation
The Curriculum and the Needs of Society.
Dickson, Alec – New Universities Quarterly, 1979
Nine model programs for relating curriculum to the needs of society are presented. These come from a number of countries and are designed to benefit both society and the individual student. (JMF)
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Designing and Improving Courses and Curricula in Higher Education: A Systematic Approach.
Diamond, Robert M. – 1989
A systematic approach to the improvement of courses, programs and curricula in higher education is presented in the following chapters: (1) "Benefits of a Systematic Approach to Course and Curriculum Improvement"; (2) "Making the Decision to Create or Redesign a Course or Program"; (3) "Selecting a Design Team and Establishing Goals and…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Programs, Course Content, Course Evaluation
SAM [Student Accountability Model], COPES [Community College Occupational Programs Evaluation System], & You.
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1978
This manual contains information on two evaluation systems for occupational programs at California community colleges. For the first, COPES (Community College Occupational Programs Evaluation System), which is a self-evaluation process, a guide is provided as well as a set of seven evaluation forms for the college president, faculty, counselors…
Descriptors: Classification, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Data Collection
Evaluation of the General Education Program at the University of Montevallo. Symposium Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-South Educational Research Association (Memphis, Tennessee, November 19-21, 1986).
Ernest, Patricia S.; And Others – 1986
These papers were presented as a symposium on the revision of the general education program at the University of Montevallo (UM) in Alabama. The first paper, "Introduction to Evaluation of General Education at the University of Montevallo," by Patricia S. Ernest and Elizabeth H. Rodgers, describes the core curriculum study and the 13…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation