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van de Wiel, Margje W. J. – Frontline Learning Research, 2017
To understand expertise and expertise development, interactions between knowledge, cognitive processing and task characteristics must be examined in people at different levels of training, experience, and performance. Interviewing is widely used in the initial exploration of domain expertise. Work and cognitive task analysis chart the knowledge,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Cognitive Processes, Task Analysis, Learning Processes
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Hagenauer, Gerda; Gläser-Zikuda, Michaela; Volet, Simone E. – Frontline Learning Research, 2016
Research on teachers' emotion display and the quality of the teacher-student relationship in higher education is increasingly significant in the context of rapidly developing internationalization in higher education, with scholars (and students) moving across countries for research and teaching. However, there is little theoretically grounded…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, International Education
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Pataraia, Nino; Falconer, Isobel; Margaryan, Anoush; Littlejohn, Allison; Fincher, Sally – Frontline Learning Research, 2014
As the higher education environment changes, there are calls for university teachers to change and enhance their teaching practices to match. Networking practices are known to be deeply implicated in studies of change and diffusion of innovation, yet academics' networking activities in relation to teaching have been little studied. This paper…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Networks, College Faculty, Communities of Practice
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Hytönen, Kaisa; Palonen, Tuire; Hakkarainen, Kai – Frontline Learning Research, 2014
This article aims to examine cognitively central actors and their personal networks in the emerging field of energy efficiency. Cognitively central actors are frequently sought for professional advice by other actors and, therefore, they are positioned in the middle of a social network. They often are important knowledge resources, especially in…
Descriptors: Semi Structured Interviews, Social Networks, Energy Conservation, Efficiency
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Vekkaila, Jenna; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Lonka, Kirsti – Frontline Learning Research, 2013
Little is known about what inspires students to be involved in their doctoral process and stay persistent when facing challenges. This study explored the nature of students' engagement in the doctoral work. Altogether, 21 behavioural sciences doctoral students from one top-level research community were interviewed. The interview data were…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Theses, Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement
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Sinha, Suparna; Gray, Steven; Hmelo-Silver, Cindy E.; Jordan, Rebecca; Eberbach, Catherine; Goel, Ashok; Rugaber, Spencer – Frontline Learning Research, 2013
A primary goal of instruction is to prepare learners to transfer their knowledge and skills to new contexts, but how far this transfer goes is an open question. In the research reported here, we seek to explain a case of transfer through examining the processes by which a conceptual representation used to reason about complex systems was…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Transfer of Training, Concept Formation, Biology