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Sapkota, Kayla N. – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2023
This essay presents the creation process for an online honors course in the field of business. Highlighting engagement, critical thinking, and inclusivity as central themes, the author describes the course's inception, structure, outcomes, and post-teaching reflection. The pedagogical framework includes integrative current event assignments and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Program Development, Business Administration Education, Student Attitudes
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Janine Haenen; Sylvia Vink; Ellen Sjoer; Wilfried Admiraal – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
In honours programmes, teachers face the task of designing courses in which students feel challenged and learn from accomplishing demanding assignments. The aim of this study was to investigate students' and teachers' perceptions of challenge and learning in an honours programme. From 2016 to 2019, students and teachers rated the learning…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Learning Activities
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Light, Ashley; Altstadt, Amelia-Marie; Sanchez-Txabarri, Olatz; Bernstein, Stuart; McMahon, Patrice C. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
In the United States, the dearth of quality expanded learning opportunities (ELO), such as afterschool and summer programs, has long been recognized as a national concern (DeKanter et al., 2000). The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this problem, as expanded learning opportunities of all kinds became increasingly limited in spring 2020 (Carver &…
Descriptors: College Students, Service Learning, After School Programs, Low Income Students
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Cusick, Anne; Camer, Danielle; Stamenkovic, Alexander; Zaccagnini, Melissa – Journal of Peer Learning, 2015
Research training should facilitate effective researcher role development. While researcher roles require the performance of specialised knowledge and skill, they also require development of personal research identities within social contexts. Interaction with research peers can provide opportunities for reflective role development. Ad-hoc…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Researchers, Trainees, Program Development
Buzash, Michael D. – 1994
The evolution of a 2-week summer honors program in French for high school students, inaugurated in 1980 and conducted on a university campus, is chronicled. The program was designed to offer enriching experiences in language review, new skill building, French culture, understanding of French phonology, and conversation on topics of interest to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Second Language Programs, French
Byrne, Joseph P. – 1998
This study, a synthesis of 51 published prescriptive essays and program reports from 1978 to 1997, follows the development of honors programs in comprehensive community colleges. Despite arguments that programs of this sort betray the institution's democratic imperative by implying academic elitism, diverting needed funds from…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development