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Margaret Arrison Nolan; Peggy Hickman – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2024
The globalization of business, education, and other sectors has illuminated the need for institutions of higher education to prepare students to adapt, interact, and perform in culturally diverse environments (Arnett, 2002; Brislin & Yoshida, 1994; Elmuti et al., 2005; Williams et al., 2017). Utilizing the conceptual framework of Deardorff's…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication, Models
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Taggart, Gabel – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2023
This article presents a case study on Giving Games (GG), which are single-session experiential philanthropy lessons where students learn about, deliberate, and decide which of a set of pre-planned nonprofit organizations should receive smaller sums of sponsored money. Findings reveal that participants' prioritized considerations for giving changed…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Nonprofit Organizations, Pretests Posttests, Student Attitudes
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Andelkovic, Sladana; Dedjanski, Vojislav; Pejic, Biljana – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
Students' opinion and assessment of the quality of teaching presents an important segment of the evaluation of the quality of teaching at university level in accordance with the principles of the Bologna Process. In this study, we have examined opinion of students at the Faculty of Geography, University of Belgrade on the pedagogical benefits of…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Relevance (Education), Geography Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Barakat, Maysaa; Reames, Ellen; Kensler, Lisa A. W. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2019
The demographic profile of the United States has been rapidly changing; by 2020, minority students will constitute the majority of the public school student population nationwide. This makes cultural competence a necessity for today's school leaders. Educational leadership preparation programs are responsible for preparing culturally competent…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Student Diversity, Public Schools, Cultural Awareness
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Rao, Pramila – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2016
Purpose: This empirical research was conducted in a medium-sized private university located in the north-eastern region of the USA. The purpose of this paper was to understand whether demographic attributes (age, gender, country of origin and years of stay in the USA) of international students will predict any preferences for specific teaching…
Descriptors: Demography, Performance Factors, Foreign Students, Age Differences
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Mishra, Sita; Nargundkar, Rajendra – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: Management education is at its peak in India. But pedagogy and modes of delivery are not always innovative compared to top international Business Schools. It is through experimentation that the paper may be able to discover what works best in our context. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effectiveness of intensive mode of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Management Development, Business Administration Education, Questionnaires
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Zohrabi, Mohammad – Higher Education Studies, 2011
Any curriculum consists of several components: goals, disposition, duration, needs analysis, learners and teachers, exercises and activities, resources, ways of learning, skills to be acquired, lexis, language structure, and ability assessment. Before setting up a program or course of study, these components should be determined and described in…
Descriptors: Investigations, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Design
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Ray, Rose E.; Kirkpatrick, Dwight R. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
A study of the effects of time formats on informational and attitudinal changes of students in college-level human sexuality courses indicates that the duration of the course is less important than the method of teaching it. (RM)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Program Effectiveness
McCombs, Barbara Leherissey; And Others – 1974
Media adjunct programing (MAP) techniques for presenting individualized, self-paced instruction were compared to traditional instructor-classroom (TIC) techniques in an undergraduate pilot Weather course. The MAP group completed the course in significantly less time than did the TIC group, representing a 29 percent time savings. In addition, MAP…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Curiosity