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Alanzi, Awad Ali – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
This research motivates to identify the legal education model in the Arab region and Saudi Arabia in particular. It is found that Arab legal system is derived from the Roman law and French models. The French teaching model is spread in the Kingdom through the professors educated from the French law schools. The french model of legal education…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Arabs
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Maphosa, Vusumuzi; Dube, Bekithemba; Jita, Thuthukile – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Focusing through the lens of the (COVID-19) lockdown which was enforced on the 30th of March 2020, it became apparent that students from rural resource-constrained educational institutions had to adapt to sustainable online learning platforms from traditional content delivery. WhatsApp a social networking app, but due to its low data consumption,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
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Monk, Jennifer M.; Newton, Genevieve – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
We investigated whether the implementation of a scaffolded case study assignment could increase student perceptions of their scientific literacy (SL) skills in a third year Nutritional Science course. The change in students' SL perceptions were assessed by the completion of two surveys (administered at the start and end of the semester) consisting…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Nutrition Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Polat, Ahmet; Dogan, Soner; Demir, Selçuk Besir – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
The present study was undertaken to investigate the quality of education based on the views of the students attending social studies education departments at the Faculties of Education and to determine the existing problems and present suggestions for their solutions. The study was conducted according to exploratory sequential mixed method. In…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods, Mixed Methods Research, Sequential Approach
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Lu, Xiaoye; Cheng, Xin; Li, Ke; Lee, Kenneth Ka Ho; Yang, Xuesong – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Objectives: Human histology is a discipline concerning the study of microscopic structures of human tissues and organs--with the aid of light or electron microscopes. Traditional teaching of histology is composed of two separated components, theory and practice. The main disadvantage with traditional histology teaching is the detachment of theory…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Laboratory Equipment
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Lynch, Rosealie P.; Pappas, Eric – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This paper presents a model for teaching large classes that facilitates a "small class feel" to counteract the distance, anonymity, and formality that often characterize large lecture-style courses in higher education. One author (E. P.) has been teaching a 300-student general education critical thinking course for ten years, and the…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Teaching Methods, Class Size, Lecture Method
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Starichenko, Boris E.; Egorov, Artem N.; Yavich, Roman – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
The article is devoted to the study of teaching opportunities of classroom response systems (?RS) and the conditions for their effective use in the teaching process. In the course of research more than 260 students of Ural State Pedagogical University (Russia, Yekaterinburg) and Ariel University Center of Samaria (Israel, Ariel) were surveyed to…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Audience Response Systems, Foreign Countries, Surveys
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Selvanathan, Rani G. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
There are many definitions that are attributable to the meaning of sustainability. Sustainability can be viewed as long-lasting, effective result of a project, venture, action, or investment without consuming additional future resources. Because of the wide nature of its applicability, a universal measure of sustainability is hard to come by. This…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Educational Development, Educational Change, Models
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Otaala, Laura A.; Plattner, Ilse E. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
In many African countries, English is the medium of instruction in higher education even though students may not always be entirely familiar with "standard" English. This study aimed at investigating the relevance of English language competencies for teaching and learning from the perspective of students and lecturers. The study was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Liang, Xiaoping; Smith, Sara W. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
The present research analyzes instructional strategies used to integrate the learning of content and English as a foreign language in a bilingual physics class at a university in Shanghai, China. It examines how the instructor handles meaning and form of new English science vocabulary in concept-focused physics lectures and the strategies he used…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Physics