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Direct linkEllis, Robert A. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
There is variation in the university student experience of learning. Prior research has shown that factors that shape this include student characteristics, the learning context, student perceptions of that context and approaches to learning and their learning outcomes. In blended contexts, there is a need to identify variables which can explain…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Educational Environment, Inquiry, Higher Education
Visser-Wijnveen, Gerda J.; Stes, Ann; Van Petegem, Peter – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
The motivation to teach is a powerful, yet neglected, force in teaching at institutes of higher education. A better understanding of academics' motivations for teaching is necessary. The aim of this mixed-method study was to identify groups with distinctively different motivations for teaching. Six clusters were identified: expertise, duty,…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Teaching (Occupation), Mixed Methods Research, Expertise
Stes, Ann; Van Petegem, Peter – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Teaching approaches in higher education have already been the subject of a considerable body of research. An important contribution was Prosser and Trigwell's development of the Approaches to Teaching Inventory (ATI). The present study aims to map out the approaches to teaching profiles of teachers in higher education on the basis of their scores…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Profiles, Educational Strategies
Peer reviewedBlanksby, Dixie C. – Educational Studies, 1999
Explores the responses of teachers and parents to a trial of 'cluster grouping' (gifted students grouped together in a mixed ability class) as a model to meet the needs of exceptional students in a junior secondary school. Identifies factors impacting the school's Cluster Group Project. Discusses the results. (CMK)
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Foreign Countries, Gifted, Higher Education
Download full textAdams, Olin L., III; Guarino, A. J.; Robichaux, Rebecca R.; Edwards, Toni L. – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2004
This paper explores the nature and extent of outsourcing by higher education institutions, benefits and challenges associated with outsourcing, and the implications of outsourcing for effective management. The principal investigator conducted a national study of outsourcing by four-year colleges and universities at two points in time, 1998-99 and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Contracts, Performance Factors
