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David Robert Niebuhr Tod – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The work of instructional design in community college settings is woefully understudied. This study documents that work in three community colleges in the southeastern United States while placing it in the theoretical context of neoliberalism, and in line with that theoretical context, takes a post-structuralist stance in its methodological…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Community Colleges, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
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Kumar, Anita R. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2022
In this paper, an early childhood teacher educator and researcher describes the experience of facilitating and enacting a practice-focused course design for preservice early childhood teachers. The course utilized video analysis, practice records, rehearsal pedagogies and a focus on teacher-child interactions. The author reflects on the structure…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Models, Instructional Design
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Susana H. Hernández; Lyle McKinney; Andrea Burridge; Catherine O'Brien – AERA Open, 2024
Research on developmental education reform has given surprisingly limited attention to what happens inside the classroom between faculty and students. Our qualitative study used interview data from 20 faculty and 20 students in corequisite math and English courses at one of the nation's largest and most racially diverse community college systems.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Equal Education, Developmental Studies Programs
Jeanne E. Hopkins – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Whereas Kindergarten through Grade 12 teachers go through extension education and training to teach, it is rare for a college faculty member to go through training on how to teach. Since there is little research about higher education faculty professional development, the purpose of this study was to learn the perspectives of college faculty who…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods
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Daly, Una T.; Glapa-Grossklag, James; Nguyen, Alyssa; Valenzuela, Ireri – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2022
Purpose: The Open for Antiracism program supports faculty to change their teaching practices to be antiracist through the affordances of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy. This study aims to raise questions about how professional development impacts student outcomes, and how faculty perceive the utility of OER and open pedagogy to…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Open Education, Racism, Social Justice
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Jorge Grajales-Díaz – Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges, 2025
This study employed qualitative methods to explore how the "UVA in Valencia Summer Program 2019/2021" approached instructional practices (e.g., in-class and out-of-class immersive learning activities, homestays, pre-program services, including use of L2 and culture learning strategies) to identify those features of the program design…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Study Abroad, Teaching Methods, Program Design
Angelica Sanchez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of Early College High School (ECHS) adjunct instructors teaching dual enrollment courses in a southern region school district. Through interviews with ten ECHS adjunct instructors, the researcher examined the factors contributing to their success, their professional…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Dual Enrollment, High Schools, Higher Education
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Bishop, Tammy J.; Martirosyan, Nara; Saxon, D. Patrick; Lane, Forrest – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
In 2009, the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) began the process of redesigning developmental mathematics (DMA) courses. The first classes were offered in 2012 with final state implementation in fall 2013. The purpose of this study was to examine the subsequent gateway course success rates achieved by former DMA students in relation…
Descriptors: Remedial Mathematics, Mathematics, Instructional Design, Curriculum Implementation
Debbie Krachtus – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Since the groundbreaking report "To Err is Human," there has been an increased focus on outcomes and quality improvement (QI) in healthcare. This focus has resulted in a change in nursing education. Nursing programs and nurse educators have been directed to integrate QI into nursing curriculum using innovative teaching methods. However,…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Nursing Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Patrick B. Johnson; Nathalia Holtzman; Eva Fernandez – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
Two groups of mathematics faculty, one from a four-year college and one from a two-year college, redesigned their respective introductory college mathematics courses following presentation of observational data regarding how faculty had been teaching the courses. This presentation emphasised how infrequently faculty teaching introductory college…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, College Faculty
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Sublett, Cameron; Orenstein, Ari – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
While community colleges excel at expanding postsecondary enrollments, these institutions often struggle to help students succeed. A chorus of school leaders and policymakers increasingly agree that broad-based, comprehensive organizational change is needed to drastically improve community college student success and equity. The Guided Pathways…
Descriptors: Scheduling, Courses, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Anna Khalemsky; Yelena Stukalin – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2024
The article describes the inclusive perspective of instruction of multi-stage practical projects in undergraduate non-STEM statistics and data mining courses at an academic college in Israel. The student population is highly diverse, comprising individuals from various cultural and ethnic groups. The study examines the impact of diversity on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Statistics Education, Data Science
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Hromalik, Christopher D.; Myhill, William N.; Carr, Nancy R. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
This design case details the design and development of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Academy, a two-phase training to guide community college faculty in applying the UDL framework to their instruction. This article focuses on the first phase, in which faculty were trained in UDL. The authors of this paper, who were the creators and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Access to Education, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
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Stahl, Norman A.; Armstrong, Sonya L.; Hewett, Elizabeth – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
In recent years, "contextualization" has emerged as a buzzword in higher education, and, in community college developmental education contexts in particular. However, it is important to note that contextualization is more than an innovation that is specific to the current developmental education reform movement, as iterations of this…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Reading Strategies, Study Habits, Instructional Design
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Hatherly, Amanda – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Teaching building science to community college students can be challenging given both the macro (houses change subject to varying seasons) and the micro (heat transfer, moisture movement) level of the topics taught. Simulations and games can provide a way of learning material that can otherwise be difficult for students to understand. In this…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Building Design, Buildings
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