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Wood, Phil; Cajkler, Wasyl – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has become an important field of inquiry, focusing on the development of new and critical pedagogic approaches in higher education. It is a broad field leading to the emergence of a number of contrasting perspectives concerning the development of insights into teaching and learning. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reflective Teaching, Instructional Innovation, Educational Practices
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Beaton, Laura; Freeman, Ruth – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: To use the Theory of Diffusion of Innovations as a framework to explore the qualitative data gleaned from a process evaluation of the Smile4life intervention across Scottish National Health Service (NHS) Boards and to inform future oral health promotion and homelessness. Design: A qualitative exploration. Setting: In 2012, the…
Descriptors: Dental Health, Homeless People, Health Promotion, Program Implementation
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Blumberg, Phyllis – Innovative Higher Education, 2016
This article proposes a recommended course of action for faculty development based upon Rogers' theory of Diffusion of Innovations and data collected in a study looking at the prevalence of use of learning-centered teaching practices. Specific faculty development strategies are aligned with Rogers' factors influencing decisions to adopt…
Descriptors: Influences, Performance Factors, Adoption (Ideas), Faculty Development
Iverson, Ellen A. Roscoe – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand the factors that support the adoption of active learning teaching strategies in undergraduate courses by faculty members, specifically in the STEM disciplines related to geoscience. The focus of the study centered on the context of the department which was identified as a gap in evaluation and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Earth Science
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Khatri, Raina; Henderson, Charles; Cole, Renée; Froyd, Jeffrey E.; Friedrichsen, Debra; Stanford, Courtney – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
The physics education research community has produced a wealth of knowledge about effective teaching and learning of college level physics. Based on this knowledge, many research-proven instructional strategies and teaching materials have been developed and are currently available to instructors. Unfortunately, these intensive research and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Educational Innovation, Models, Success
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Nascimbeni, Fabio; Burgos, Daniel – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
The paper explores the change process that university teachers need to go through in order to become fluent with Open Education approaches. Based on a literature review and a set of interviews with a number of leading experts in the field of Open Educational Resources and Open Education, the paper puts forward an original definition of Open…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), College Faculty, Open Education, Interviews
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Feryok, Anne; Oranje, Jo – Modern Language Journal, 2015
Intercultural language teaching and learning has increasingly been adopted in state school systems, yet studies have shown that language teachers struggle to include it in their practice. The aim of this study is to use dynamic systems theory to examine how a German as a foreign language teacher in a New Zealand secondary school adopted a project…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, German, Intercultural Programs, Secondary School Curriculum
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Churchill, Daniel; Wang, Tianchong – Educational Media International, 2014
Mobile devices (e.g. iPads or galaxy tab) are increasingly being used in educational contexts. There has been growing investment in higher education institutions in Hong Kong by the HKSAR Education Bureau in relation to educational uses of mobile technology. However, current research into educational applications of this technology is limited.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Qualitative Research
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Barry, Daved; Meisiek, Stefan – Journal of Management Education, 2015
Over the past decade, numerous business schools have begun experimenting with studio-based inquiry, often drawing inspiration from professional studios used within art and design schools and from business and governmental studios used for problem-solving and innovation. Business school studios vary considerably in form, ranging from temporary…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Business Administration Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Fox, Traci B. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This mixed-methods study explored the extent to which health professions educators use instructional technologies and learning-centered pedagogical methods. Within the health professions, there is a lack of data on the pedagogical methods used by health professions educators within the classroom. The purpose of this study was to examine and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Student Centered Learning, Educational Technology, Adoption (Ideas)
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Rubino-Hare, Lori A.; Whitworth, Brooke A.; Bloom, Nena E.; Claesgens, Jennifer M.; Fredrickson, Kristi M.; Sample, James C. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2016
This case study described teachers with varying technology skills who were implementing the use of geospatial technology (GST) within project-based instruction (PBI) at varying grade levels and contexts 1 to 2 years following professional development. The sample consisted of 10 fifth- to ninth-grade teachers. Data sources included artifacts,…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Pegrum, Mark; Oakley, Grace; Faulkner, Robert – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
This paper reports on the adoption of mobile handheld technologies in ten Western Australian independent schools, based on interviews with staff conducted in 2011. iPads were the most popular device, followed by iPod Touches and iPhones. Class sets were common at lower levels, with 1:1 models becoming increasingly common at higher levels. Mobile…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices
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Honey, Sukrat; Graham, Edward – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2012
This paper looks at research based models that have been put forward to describe how teacher use of technology develops. There have been a variety of studies that have proposed levels that describe teacher use of technology and identify the different aspects of use that distinguish these levels. Very few of these studies have shown how teachers…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Models, Journal Writing, Grounded Theory
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Martin, Florence; Parker, Michele; Allred, Beth – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
This is a case study of faculty adoption and use of Horizon Wimba Virtual Classroom in online courses at a Southeastern University in the United States. The purpose of this case study was to explore faculty adoption and use of Horizon Wimba in their online courses. This inquiry is based on Yen et al. (2010) adoption factors (organizational,…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Case Studies, Synchronous Communication, Adoption (Ideas)
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van den Berg, G.; Schulze, S. – Africa Education Review, 2014
Education has been subject to a process of continuous educational reforms. The aim of this study was to explore teachers' abilities to adapt to these reforms and to find out how this process of continual reform related to their identities as teachers. The study used a narrative research approach. The data for this research were based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Self Concept, Adoption (Ideas)
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