This study sought to examine the state of media literacy in higher education across the United States. More specifically, this study aimed to describe various working models of media literacy within college and university minors, specialization/concentrations, and certificate offerings at the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education…

This study examines the integration of gender studies into Kazakhstan's higher education curricula, emphasizing their effectiveness, teaching methods, and challenges in fostering gender awareness and equality. Utilizing a qualitative research design, the study combines content analysis of over 5,000 active educational programs with in-depth…

This article offers a theoretical proposal of how political science graduate programs can emphasize teaching in the discipline by creating the subfield of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Currently, these programs neither prepare their students for academic positions where teaching is valued nor participate in a disciplinary trend…

Purpose: This paper aims to present an overview of the design and implementation of a curriculum review undertaken at Plymouth University, UK, to gauge the incidence and status of sustainability in degree programmes across the curriculum. The paper outlines the methodological approach taken, reviews findings and summarises the effects and…

In this article, the authors present an example of a project-based course within a studio environment that taught collaborative innovation skills and produced an open-source project management textbook for the field of instructional design and technology. While innovation plays an important role in our economy, and many have studied how to teach…

Globalizing the curriculum in small German programs with a single faculty member consists of different considerations than in larger programs with more faculty and students. In this dialogue, the faculty members in two such programs discuss what globalizing German Studies means within the context of their small programs and the need to maintain a…

Proceedings of an international conference on adult and external degree programs are presented. Selected papers are drawn from the areas of distance learning, support services, intra-institutional, curriculum, and teaching. They include: "Uses of Distance Education for Graduate Professional Degrees" (Ruth J. Person and Raymond Vondran); "Library…

This document consists of course materials for adult participants in a graduate-level course in "Survey of Human Resource Development." Following an introductory section on training materials, including a course pretest, and an introduction to graduate study, the course covers the following topics: (1) history of training; (2) behavioral sciences…

A year-long, cooperatively structured, student team strategy is described that is being used as a major component in an interdisciplinary Master of Environmental Science degree program. The general philosophy of the degree program and the rationale for including the Student Team Project (STP) are described. The most basic goal of the program is…

The history of instructional television, the development of the telecourse concept, current uses of instructional television, economic factors, and cooperative arrangements are considered. After the initial approach of presenting a professor lecturing as if before a class, producers of instructional television began to dramatize the subject, adopt…

This document contains three papers presented at a symposium on university instruction in human resource development (HRD) moderated by Janice Black at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). "Facilitating Transfer of Learning from the Classroom to the Workplace" (Brenda S. Gardner, Sharon J. Korth)…

This monograph addresses the essential elements for high quality technology education programs at the graduate level. It discusses the issues in eight chapters written by individual authors: (1) "The 'Why' of Graduate Study" (Paul W. DeVore); (2) "Curriculum Development" (Ronald E. Jones); (3) "Instructional Strategies at the Graduate Level"…

A plea for a revision of methods used in graduate language programs, particularly Spanish, this article opposes admitting students to graduate programs for the purpose of obtaining teachers or filling up upper-level classes. Highly structured programs should be substituted with individualized, flexible ones. Testing should be revised. (SC)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTE PROGRAMS, HAVING ADOPTED A STRUCTURE OUTSIDE OF THE DOMINANT MODEL IN EDUCATION, HIGHLIGHT WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE ESTABLISHED HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND GIVE CLUES AS TO HOW IT MAY BE IMPROVED. THESE INSTITUTE PROGRAMS OFFER A PERSONALIZED ATMOSPHERE, WITH CURRICULAR UNITY, WHERE LEARNING IS MORE OF A GROUP ACTIVITY,…

A 10-week accelerated summer Latin workshop was held for graduate students and undergraduate honor students. The course included a rapid introduction to basic Latin morphology and syntax and careful reading of selected poetry and prose. Course content, teaching methods, and student achievement are briefly discussed. (AF)