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Coneyworth, Lisa; Jessop, Rachel; Maden, Pauline; White, Gavin – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
Taught postgraduate students in the UK have a limited timeframe for study, with most full-time courses requiring intense scholarship, typically over a 12-month period. Many of these students face challenges and concerns with the transition from undergraduate to taught postgraduate study as they adapt to a new learning environment with higher…
Descriptors: Well Being, Graduate Students, Student Adjustment, Feedback (Response)
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Homan, Dustin M.; Epley, Hannah H. – Journal of Extension, 2018
Youths not only participate in Extension services but also can be equipped as facilitators to extend information about a critical topic to new audiences. Our interdisciplinary team of Extension professionals created a program to equip youths as peer educators, increase youths' awareness and understanding of a new topic (local foods), promote…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Peer Teaching, Food
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Njoku, Anuli; Wakeel, Fathima; Reger, Michael; Jadhav, Emmanuel; Rowan, Julie – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Rural communities, compared with their urban counterparts, have higher rates of disease and adverse health conditions, fueling disparities in health outcomes. This encourages the need for effective curricula to engage students and enable them to address such disparate health outcomes as imminent health professionals. Incorporating learner-centered…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Public Health, College Faculty, Instructional Design
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Brewer, Sarah; Whiteside, Karin – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
The Cara Syria Programme has been developed to support Syrian academics who have had to abandon their academic positions due to the conflict in Syria and who have seen their careers compromised as a result. The Programme offers a means to re-establish their academic identities and develop new skills through participation in the learning activities…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Millar, Julie A.; Thompson, Janet; Schwab, Dorothy; Hanlon-Dearman, Ana; Goodman, Deborah; Koren, Gal; Masotti, Paul – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2017
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disability with significant implications for learning and behaviour. International research suggests that the prevalence of FASD in school-aged children is 2.3-6.3%. In this paper, we address the questions: (1) what is FASD; (2) what is the prevalence of FASD in schools; (3)…
Descriptors: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Educational Policy, Theory Practice Relationship, Developmental Disabilities
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Chaves, Orlando; Guapacha, Maria Eugenia – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2016
This article reports a mixed-method research project aimed at improving the practices of public sector English teachers in Cali (Colombia) through a professional development program. At the diagnostic stage surveys, documentary analysis, and a focus group yielded the teachers' profile and professional needs. The action phase measured the program's…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Safatly, Lise; Itani, Hiba; El-Hajj, Ali; Salem, Dania – Ethics and Education, 2017
In modern and well-structured universities, ethics centers are playing a key role in hosting, organizing, and managing activities to enrich and guide students' ethical thinking and analysis. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the goals, activities, and administration of ethics centers, as well as their role in promoting ethical thinking…
Descriptors: College Role, Ethics, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
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Tumtuma, Chamnan; Chantarasombat, Chalard; Yeamsang, Theerawat – International Education Studies, 2015
The Academic Knowledge Management Model of Small Schools in Thailand was created by research and development. The quantitative and qualitative data were collected via the following steps: a participatory workshop meeting, the formation of a team according to knowledge base, field study, brainstorming, group discussion, activities carried out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Scholarship, Models
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Adams, Adrienne E.; Nnawulezi, Nkiru A.; Vandenberg, Lela – American Journal of Evaluation, 2015
From a utilization-focused evaluation perspective, the success of an evaluation is rooted in the extent to which the evaluation was used by stakeholders. This paper details the "Expectations to Change" (E2C) process, an interactive, workshop-based method designed to engage primary users with their evaluation findings as a means of…
Descriptors: Expectation, Stakeholders, Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization
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Cocodia, Ebinepre A. – Higher Education Studies, 2014
Using a reflective practice approach this paper provides an outline of the development of a new career development and counselling program for students within a medical sciences off-campus precinct. Drawing on Schön's (1983) reflective practice framework the aim included reflecting "in" and "on" action during the development…
Descriptors: Career Development, Medical Students, Educational Practices, Career Counseling
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Holdsworth, Sarah; Thomas, Ian – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2015
Inclusion of education for sustainable development (ESD) in the curricula of universities, and in many forums, has been promoted for over a decade. Despite this apparent enthusiasm, there is little to show that ESD has been implemented in most universities. In Australia, surveys indicate an interest in ESD but it is rarely a part of the…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Workshops, Surveys
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Roger, Kerstin Stieber; Halas, Gayle – Qualitative Report, 2012
As qualitative research methodologies continue to evolve and develop, both students and experienced researchers are showing greater interest in learning about and developing new approaches. To meet this need, faculty at the University of Manitoba created the Qualitative Research Group (QRG), a community of practice that utilizes experiential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Networks
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Marshall, Stewart; Kinuthia, Wanjira; Richards, Griff – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2012
The University of the West Indies Open Campus and Athabasca University conducted a pilot workshop to see if open educational resources (OER) could be used to construct curricula. UWIOC was interested in increasing distance education offerings and Athabasca University was interested in expanding programming to offer an online graduate program in…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Workshops
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Mauser, Kevin; Sours, John; Banks, Julianna; Newbrough, Randy; Janke, Tom; Shuck, Lorie; Zhu, Lin; Ammerman, Gina; Varma-Nelson, Pratibha – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2011
The type and amount of student interaction with major socializing agents on campus--faculty and their peers--determine the impact of college on students. Much of the research on postsecondary education links the quality of peer interactions directly to student learning outcomes and satisfaction with the college experience, and Alexander Astin went…
Descriptors: College Students, Active Learning, Program Effectiveness, Interaction
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Bar-Shalom, Yehuda; Diab, Khanssaa; Rousseau, Anna – Intercultural Education, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze a new educational program introduced on an experimental basis at the David Yellin Academic College of Education in the 2005/6 academic year. The program is entitled "Difference and diversity in Israeli society". The focus is on selected social issues and the relations between different…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Cultural Pluralism
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