Education has an important role to play in advancing the green transition and building a sustainable future for Europe's societies and economies. This Eurydice report examines how European countries integrate learning for sustainability in teaching and school life in 39 education systems. The report investigates which sustainability-related…

Given that the most students spend considerable time on social networks, many educational institutions use this habit as a basis for educational purposes. Increasing students' active participation in learning activities is one of the main goals of education. The purpose of this research was to investigate to what extent crowdvoting techniques can…

The authors describe a Wikipedia-based project designed for a graduate course introducing health economics to experienced healthcare professionals. The project allows such students to successfully write articles on niche topics in rapidly evolving health economics subspecialties. These students are given the opportunity to publish their completed…

Both practitioners and researchers recognize the increasing importance of knowledge sharing in organizations (Bock, Zmud, Kim, & Lee, 2005; Vera-Muñoz, Ho, & Chow, 2006). Knowledge sharing influences a firm's knowledge creation, organizational learning, performance achievement, growth, and competitive advantage (Bartol &…

The purpose of this study was to examine student motivation for SAEs through the lens of the Self-Determination Theory. Self-Determination Theory proposed that human beings are more genuinely motivated when driven by internal factors as opposed to external factors. We used historical research and general qualitative interpretative methods to…

Cooperative learning may improve students' motivation, understanding of course concepts, and academic performance. This study therefore enhanced a cooperative, group-project learning technique with technology resources to determine whether doing so improved students' deep learning and performance. A sample of 118 engineering students, randomly…

A survey of 85 4-H members aged 9-19 enrolled in a clothing project found the following factors to be significant influences in project completion: parental encouragement, role models, leadership, and incentives. (SK)

Describes the use of history fairs to encourage student projects in local and state history. The discussion covers student motivation and incentives, in the implementation of fairs within school curricula. (AM)

Designed to stimulate student motivation, this handbook contains a wide variety of activities and strategies for use at the elementary and secondary school levels. Nine sections contain incentive ideas which can be applied to student achievement, teaching techniques, subject areas, community resources, public relations, special programs,…

This study addresses changes in student perceptions when team leaders are incentivized. Although the benefits of groupwork have been thoroughly studied and documented, minimizing dysfunctional teamwork may prove difficult because of leadership incentives, social loafing, and organizational justice implications. Using an innovative pedagogical…