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Kimberly Carroll Steward; David Gosselin; Devarati Bhattacharya; Mark Chandler; Cory T. Forbes – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2025
Foregrounding climate education in formal science learning environments provides students with opportunities to develop critical climate-related knowledge and skills. However, research has shown many challenges to teaching and learning about Earth's climate and global climate change (GCC). This longitudinal study aims to establish how secondary…
Descriptors: Climate, Ecology, Environmental Education, Longitudinal Studies
Rebecca Lynne Towle Strawn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this descriptive, bounded, qualitative single-case study was to explore the experiences of ten training instructors at the School for Family and Morale, Welfare, and Recreation, a civilian training institution of the Army, about their transition to using a new standardized model of curriculum design and delivery. This study used…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Military Schools, Universities, Teachers
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Meixner, Cara; Altman, Melissa; Good, Megan; Ward, Elizabeth Ben – To Improve the Academy, 2021
Course design institutes (CDIs), which systematically guide faculty through the (re)design of courses, often transpire in an intensive residency or learning community format. Little is known, to date, of the long-term impact of such initiatives, particularly in the context of faculty motivation. This longitudinal study explores changes in faculty…
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Curriculum Design, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Attitudes
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Pawilen, Greg Tabios; Lubong, Krizza S.; Fausto, Christian Jan Robert S. – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2023
This study explores the use of micro-credential as an innovative curriculum design for addressing individuals' needs and the industry's demands. Specifically, since offering micro-credentials is relatively new in the Philippines, the study proposed a curriculum development model that will be useful in guiding curriculum experts and educational…
Descriptors: Models, Curriculum Design, Credentials, Foreign Countries
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Cardamone, Carie N.; Dwyer, Heather – To Improve the Academy, 2023
Remote teaching created a unique opportunity to study the experiences of faculty participating in a course design institute. Hundreds enrolled in our online institute, where technologies (e.g., Zoom, Canvas, Google Docs) facilitated interactions among participants and preserved their ideas and perspectives throughout the program. Using a grounded…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Curriculum Design, Educational Development, Grounded Theory
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Uluçinar, Ufuk – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2021
Designed by the meta-synthesis method, the researchers examined the studies designed on the Understanding by Design (UbD) and implemented and their findings were qualitatively evaluated. It tried to obtain a comprehensive and holistic perspective on the effects and reflections of the model. 48 UbD studies were accessed from 6 databases, and 12…
Descriptors: Planning, Program Development, Program Design, Curriculum Design
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Hosseini, Hossein; Chalak, Azizeh; Biria, Reza – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, it aimed to determine whether the application of backward design model has any significant effect on improving the writing ability of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Second, the study sought to evaluate the superiority of backward design to conventional forward models in the improvement of the…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Writing Improvement, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Fry, Jana – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study sought to understand concerns and levels of use of a group of teachers in the process of developing a project-based learning (PBL) program, and the effect of a change facilitator on these processes. The research was guided by the following research questions: One, what are the concerns of teachers regarding the planning of a PBL…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Teachers
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Jahnke, Isa; Haertel, Tobias; Wildt, Johannes – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Creativity is one of the important skills of the twenty-first century and central to higher education (HE). When we look closer into research on creativity in HE, however, it is not clear how university teachers conceptualise student creativity. How do teachers grasp, observe and express student creativity? Different methods such as interviews and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Undergraduate Students
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Shume, Teresa – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Place-based environmental education draws on childhood experiences in nature that foster place-conscious connections to the local bioregion, and intentionally cultivate children's relationships with nature on a trajectory toward increased environmental literacy. Even though opportunities for children to bond with the local natural environment are…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Case Studies
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Cafarella, Brian V. – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2016
Due to poor student success rates in developmental mathematics, many institutions have implemented various forms of redesign into their developmental math curricula. Since the goal of redesign is to increase student success, it is salient to explore all aspects of the redesign process. Many studies have focused on the positive outcomes of redesign…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Instructional Design, Developmental Programs, Mathematics Education
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Fitzgerald, Rachel; Anderson, Maggie; Thompson, Ross – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
Evidence suggests that MOOCs are being used as a strategic tool to explore alternative models of course delivery (Allen & Seaman, 2013) and this paper shares insight into an example of such innovation for Business School Education. Gateway MBA draws on examples of open learning worldwide to create a MOOC to extend the MBA distance learning…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Educational Quality
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East, Martin – Language Learning Journal, 2015
A decade ago, Klapper (2003: "Taking communication to task? A critical review of recent trends in language teaching", "The Language Learning Journal" 27: 33-42) created the opportunity to reflect on the assets and limitations of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in comparison with more established communicative language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational Trends, Task Analysis
Magorian, Kathryn G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
All programs of healthcare education face increasing change and daunting challenges to prepare new graduates for the real world of practice as care providers in complex systems. The necessity for change in nursing education is at a critical level, called on from a variety of sources. New nurses must be able to enter practice as competent, safe,…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Curriculum Development, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Change
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Anderson, Nella Bea; Poole, L. Lori; Quinn, Stephanie; Schlicht, Carrie L. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2014
The focus of this research-based review is how to best develop and manage online classes. After receiving faculty, student, and industry feedback, Colorado State University-Global Campus integrated multi-perspective design teams to develop and manage multilayered online courses. This article will reveal the instructional design, development…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Teamwork
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