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Lujie Karen Chen; Jamie Gillan; Matthew Decker; Egan Eteffa; Anjelica Marzan; Justin Thai; Sarah Jewett – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2023
With the emergence of data science as an inherently multidisciplinary subject, there is increasing demand for graduates with well-rounded competence in computing, analytics, and communication skills. However, in conventional education systems, computing & quantitative, and communication skills are often taught in different disciplines. Data…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Story Telling, Teaching Methods, Minority Serving Institutions
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Strachan, Scott Munro; Marshall, Stephen; Murray, Paul; Coyle, Edward J.; Sonnenberg-Klein, Julia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to share the University of Strathclyde's experience of embedding research-based education for sustainable development (RBESD) within its undergraduate curricula through the use of an innovative pedagogy called Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP), originated at Georgia Institute of Technology. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development, Program Descriptions
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Kohonen, Susanna; Kosonen, Jonna; Kettunen, Sinikka – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This report will discuss the process of evaluation for development in a collaborative project that integrated teaching between the Language Centre and the Law School at the University of Eastern Finland. The focus of this report will be on a model the authors devised for the purposes of developing teaching, called "E.A.S.Y,"…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Higher Education
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Anthamatten, Peter; Bryant, Lara M. P.; Ferrucci, Beverly J.; Jennings, Steve; Theobald, Rebecca – Journal of Geography, 2018
Giant maps offer a potentially useful pedagogical tool for teaching mathematics and map skills. In this pilot study, giant maps were distributed to elementary schools in Colorado and New Hampshire and teachers were provided with guided activities designed to integrate mathematics and geography skills. In an assessment of student skills, it was…
Descriptors: Map Skills, Teaching Methods, Pilot Projects, Elementary School Students
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Fukushima, Yasuhiro; Ishimura, Gakushi; Komasinski, Andrew James; Omoto, Reiko; Managi, Shunsuke – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to suggest the structure of a platform for education and capacity building for Future Earth, which is an intensive program open to the eight stakeholders and which utilizes existing research programs/facilities associated with Future Earth. An intention of this paper is to facilitate a policy brief for projects associated…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Futures (of Society), Human Resources, Environmental Education
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Godzhaeva, Natalia S.; Logunov, Timur A.; Lokteva, Marina S.; Zolotareva, Svetlana A. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
One of the reasons for failure of education system to form developed FL skills in its graduates consists in the lack of L2 immersion and low motivation of learners. Integration of Content and Language (CLIL) in teaching content subjects is believed to be an efficient way of improving the situation. However, introducing CLIL techniques and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, College Faculty, Language of Instruction
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Scott-Parker, B.; Barone-Nugent, E. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2019
Global progress has arisen from scientific advances and we currently live in the age of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); science as a way of increasing the knowledge base, technology as a means of manifesting the science, engineering as a way of building and creating with it, and mathematics to devise the language we use…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Females, Learner Engagement, High School Students
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Sangster, Sarah L.; Loy, Kara L.; Mills, Sheryl D.; Lawson, Karen L. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
In 2014, the Undergraduate Research Initiative at the University of Saskatchewan implemented a pilot project to organize, support, and promote curriculum-based research experience as an integral aspect of participating first-year courses. The framework for the course-based initiative was the research arc; usually in groups, students in these…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Research, Pilot Projects, College Faculty
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Bastian, Heather – Composition Forum, 2014
This program profile describes the efforts needed to develop a new writing program at a small college. The author explores how she cultivated relations with disciplinary faculty to collaboratively redefine a "problem" into an opportunity by adopting Krista Ratcliffe's technique of rhetorical listening. She then outlines the…
Descriptors: College Programs, Writing Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Descriptions
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Boys, Stephanie K.; Quiring, Stephanie Q.; Harris, Evan; Hagan, Carrie A. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2015
Social workers and attorneys both interact with persons from diverse backgrounds every day, yet although interpersonal skills are an essential focus of social work education, these skills are not addressed in legal education. Interdisciplinary courses in which social workers and lawyers learn interpersonal skills together and have an opportunity…
Descriptors: Social Work, Interdisciplinary Approach, Service Learning, Lawyers
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Perks, Joan M.; Galantino, Mary Lou – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2013
Use of electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) has been advocated to highlight student accomplishments as well as to document program and course outcomes. This use of ePortfolios incorporates information technology, thus aligning the educational process in degree programs to twenty-first-century teaching, learning, and information literacy. Here we…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Pilot Projects, Portfolios (Background Materials), Information Technology
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Skewes, Juan Carlos; Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Cioce; Conway, Frederick J. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2012
Honors programs are rare in Latin America, and in Chile they were unknown before 2003. At the Universidad Austral de Chile, an interdisciplinary group of scholars linked to environmental studies put forward a pilot project for implementing a new experience in higher education. Challenged by an educational environment where (i) apathy and…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Environmental Education
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Ehses, Markus; Veith, Michael – Higher Education in Europe, 2009
In 1999, the International Research Training Group "GRK532" was founded as a pilot project for cross-border European postgraduate education along the German/French/Luxembourg borders. The project consists of an interdisciplinary research programme on synthesis, isolation and characterization of new materials accompanied by an ambitious…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange
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Davidova, Evguenia – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2011
This article analyzes the findings of a pilot project conducted in 2008-2009 as a partnership between University Studies, Portland State University's interdisciplinary general education program, and the University's Russian Flagship Language Partner Program. The project proposes a new approach of integrating non-English speakers' language skills,…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Class Activities, General Education, Learning Activities
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Waltermaurer, Eve; Obach, Brian – Teaching Sociology, 2007
In this article, the authors describe a cross course collaborative research project designed to provide students with an opportunity to integrate aspects of sociological study that are typically addressed in a compartmentalized course by course manner. They used this approach on two separate occasions. The first involved collaboration between a…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Cooperation, Sociology, Statistics
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