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Muller, Irene; Tempelhoff, Johann – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to outline the benefits of using resilience assessment instead of command and control mechanisms to evaluate sustainable campus environments. Design/Methodology/Approach: An exploratory mixed-method design was followed for the purposes of the project. During the first qualitative phase, a historical timeline of the focal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Campuses, Mixed Methods Research
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Kim, Heesung; Ke, Fengfeng – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
The pedagogical and design considerations for the use of a virtual reality (VR) learning environment are important for prospective and current teachers. However, empirical research investigating how preservice teachers interact with transformative content representation, facilitation, and learning activities in a VR educational simulation is still…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Computer Simulation, Preservice Teachers, Student Experience
Maeyer, Jenine Rachel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Students experience difficulty learning and understanding chemistry at higher levels, often because of cognitive biases stemming from common sense reasoning constraints. These constraints can be divided into two categories: assumptions (beliefs held about the world around us) and heuristics (the reasoning strategies or rules used to build…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Mathematics, Heuristics, Undergraduate Students
Clayton, Karen Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In recent years, there have been increasing calls to develop a more contextually-based, sociocultural perspective of achievement motivation. With this in mind, this mixed method study examined Jamaican, of the West Indies, undergraduate students' perception of motivation. This study was conducted in two phases. First, a qualitative investigation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Heuristics, Achievement Need