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Austin, M. Jill; Rust, Dianna Zeh – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2015
College and University faculty members have increasingly adopted experiential learning teaching methods that are designed to engage students in the learning process. Experiential learning is simply defined as "hands-on" learning and may involve any of the following activities: service learning, applied learning in the discipline,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Program Development, Performance Factors, Teaching Methods
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Sowcik, Matthew – Journal of Leadership Education, 2012
The International Leadership Association's "Guiding Questions: Guidelines for Leadership Education Programs" (Ritch & Mengel, 2009) provides a framework to attend to leadership program development, redesign, evaluation, organized program review, questions concerning academic legitimacy and developing common program benchmarks. This article…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Leadership Training, College Programs, Context Effect
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Sloan, Diane; Porter, Elizabeth – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2010
This article addresses the question of whether the existing approach to EAP delivery implemented at the University of Northumbria is supporting the learning needs of the international student body. In addressing this the article documents the background, research and preliminary findings relating to provision of an in-sessional English for…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Attendance, English for Academic Purposes, Teaching Methods
de Lama, Sonia – 1975
The alternatives to the traditional intermediate or second-year courses in community colleges are three student-centered plans designed for colleges with low or high enrollment of second-year Spanish students. Plan A is a two-year program of Spanish instruction. It consists of Spanish 101 and 102 and eight four-week minicourses, including two…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Ghosh, R. N.; And Others – 1977
This volume is intended to introduce college teachers of English as a second language (ESL) to some of the basic concepts underlying the teaching of English in India. A theoretical framework is formulated within which problems such as the planning of syllabuses and designing of courses and tests may be understood. At the same time, practical…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, College Language Programs, Course Content, English (Second Language)
Jurasek, Richard – 1981
Two approaches to college second language instruction are described. One, an on-campus option, gives students a classroom opportunity that is similar to the intensive/immersion program, which is a ten-week intensive language course followed by a ten-week program in Mexico, France, or Germany. The on-campus option, called "Super," is a…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Higher Education, Immersion Programs, Intensive Language Courses
British Council, London (England). English-Teaching Information Centre. – 1979
The teaching of English as a second language (ESL) to adults and students in the United Kingdom is examined with respect to teacher training program design. Articles are devoted to ESL teacher training programs at the University of Edinburgh, the University College of North Wales at Bangor, the University of Lancaster, and the University of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bachelors Degrees, Classroom Communication, College Language Programs
Vocational Training Council (Hong Kong). – 2000
This document contains 123 papers from an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The papers focus on the following themes: (1) societal and ethical issues; (2) human resource development and personnel training; (3) international issues; (4) information technology in VET;…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Adult Learning, Alternative Assessment
Australian National Languages Inst., Melbourne. – 1991
A report on the teaching of modern languages in Australian higher education is presented in two volumes. The first volume contains the text of the report. An introductory section describes the aims and methodology of the national review and places it in a historical context. The remainder of this volume is in three parts. The first part identifies…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Curriculum, College Second Language Programs, College Students