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Michael Waldeck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To ensure the successful academic progress and enjoyment of postsecondary education students, it is crucial for both instructors and students to make every effort to eliminate or reduce boredom and complacency in the classroom. This factor is particularly important, given the numerous challenges that students currently face, which can hinder their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North Americans, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Ana Garcia-Allen; Sari Heru; Richard Martínez – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2024
Through the student-as-partners (SaP) framework, this paper explores how this can enhance undergraduate Spanish as a foreign language flipped classroom courses and promote student engagement and satisfaction. Traditionally, higher education courses are designed and developed by faculty members; however, our pilot project proposed collaboration…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Charles, Calpernia N. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Online education has become a major component in higher education and is no longer viewed as something students choose only when it is impossible to take a course in a traditional setting. Student perception of the quality of online learning is a prominent component of an online course. However, it is not the only component to consider, as various…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Online Courses, Educational Improvement, Learning Management Systems
Cusick, Jennie Morrell – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this Executive Position Paper was to research how to design an online, synchronous, asynchronous, or face-to-face training program for higher education instructors to serve the needs of a diverse student population of emergent learners, specifically in the community college sector. The subsequent research resulted in a faculty…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Learning Motivation
Post, Martiqua L.; Bates, Katherine; Scharff, Lauren – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
To explore factors that may inform teaching and learning in STEM education, we investigate individual and situational factors influencing students' cooperative versus competitive responses in a classroom, extra-credit problem social dilemma in core biology and engineering courses. We were curious how our competitive academic environment coupled…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Decision Making, Females
Zhao, Dan; Muntean, Cristina Hava; Chis, Adriana E.; Muntean, Gabriel-Miro – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2021
Contribution: This research study deploys three serious games with various topics in an entry-level C Programming module and investigates students' learning outcomes. The study also explores whether learners belonging to different subgroups benefit more from the use of serious games than their peers. The subgroups are formed based on learner…
Descriptors: Programming, Programming Languages, Teaching Methods, Computer Games
Falcone, Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand how faculty experience the transition from Blackboard to Canvas LMS and which LMS is preferred. The general problem addressed in this study was that California Community College students' success and retention in online courses was 7-10% lower than in face-to-face courses. To try to…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Management Systems, Community Colleges
Derado, Josip; Garner, Mary L.; Tran, Thu-Hang – PRIMUS, 2016
Students' abilities and interests vary dramatically in the college mathematics classroom. How do we teach all of these students effectively? In this paper, we present the Point Reward System (PRS), a new method of assessment that addresses this problem. We designed the PRS with three main goals in mind: to increase the retention rates; to keep all…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Student Diversity, Academic Ability
What Works Clearinghouse, 2017
This review-specific protocol guides the review of research that informs the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide "Using Technology to Support Postsecondary Student Learning." The review-specific protocol is used in conjunction with the "WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook (version 3.0)." This practice guide is…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Postsecondary Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Trede, Franziska; McEwen, Celina – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2015
With this paper, we explore early placement experiences and their pedagogical potential, including ways of keeping students enrolled and persisting with their studies. Few university courses offer early placements because traditionally placement experiences have a focus on employability and work readiness of graduates, hence occur towards the end…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods, Placement
DiBartolo, Patricia Marten; Gregg-Jolly, Leslie; Gross, Deborah; Manduca, Cathryn A.; Iverson, Ellen; Cooke, David B., III; Davis, Gregory K.; Davidson, Cameron; Hertz, Paul E.; Hibbard, Lisa; Ireland, Shubha K.; Mader, Catherine; Pai, Aditi; Raps, Shirley; Siwicki, Kathleen; Swartz, Jim E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Best-practices pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) aims for inclusive excellence that fosters student persistence. This paper describes principles of inclusivity across 11 primarily undergraduate institutions designated as Capstone Awardees in Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) 2012 competition. The Capstones…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Medical Education, Best Practices, Educational Practices
Konstantinidis, Angelos; Goria, Cecilia – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The purpose of this contribution is to share reflections and practices in cultivating a community of learners in the context of a professional development programme at Master's level for language teachers. The programme implements a highly participatory pedagogical model of online learning which combines the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Masters Programs, Language Teachers
Roberts, Steven – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2011
The current agenda for widening participation (WP) promotes equal access to higher education (HE), yet it also implicitly requires institutions to develop support strategies to ensure a successful learning experience and good retention for different groups of students. The objective of this article is predominantly reflected in the latter goal and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Learning Experience, Academic Persistence
Sproule, John; Ollis, Stewart; Gray, Shirley; Thorburn, Malcolm; Allison, Pete; Horton, Peter – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
This paper explores critical notions about how improved understandings of students learning experiences within practical learning environments could sensitise teachers to appreciate the complex influences more that affect how levels of challenge and perseverance are constructed by students. The authors, in furthering their critique, build on the…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Physical Education, Educational Objectives, Persistence
Clarke, Doug; Cheeseman, Jill; Roche, Anne; van der Schans, Stephanie – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2014
In recent years, the mathematics education research community has given increased focus to the use of cognitively demanding, challenging tasks and the demands placed on students and teachers by their use. In particular, there is evidence that a major issue is students' lack of persistence when working on such tasks. In this article, we report on…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies
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