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Doris Testa; Nina Van Dyke – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Responding to student demand for flexibility in the delivery of classes as well as the potential barriers and enabling factors supporting student success, universities have introduced distinctive educational models, including replacing the standard 12-week, sequential delivery of units of study with 4- or 8-week blocks of one or two units at a…
Descriptors: Block Scheduling, Success, Foreign Countries, Flexible Scheduling
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Laura Louise Sarauw – Higher Education Policy, 2024
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is based on a quantitative and accumulative understanding of time, which increasingly frames academic practices and notions of learning in higher education (HE). By example of a recent Danish policy reform, the article explores the connections between the ECTS, new institutional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Credits, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Amanda Sciarpelletti – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The longstanding call to prioritize science education has gained momentum, particularly with the noticeable changes aligned with reform-era practices. This quantitative study explored the relationship between policy, time allocation, and teacher practices in elementary science education, guided by constructive learning theory as the theoretical…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Students, Correlation, Teaching Methods
Bastoni, Amanda; Pickering, Brian; Bisson, Nathan – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021
"Making Room for Change" is an educational book that will be valuable to anyone involved in secondary education. The book will provide clear examples, research, and personal reflections of how building in flexible time can be different from the historic middle and high school scheduling models. Educators of all ages and levels of…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Educational Change, Flexible Scheduling, Time Management
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Thapaliya, Mukti – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2023
This descriptive qualitative study explores lecturers' perspectives on Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) in New Zealand Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews with the five purposively selected lecturers from four TEIs, this article investigates the challenges and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Orr, Yancey; Orr, Raymond – Australian Universities' Review, 2016
Neoliberalism exults the ability of unregulated markets to optimise human relations. Yet, as David Graeber has recently illustrated, it is paradoxically built on rigorous systems of rules, metrics and managers. The potential transition to a market-based tuition and research-funding model for higher education in Australia has, not surprisingly,…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Higher Education, Universities, College Faculty
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Killion, Joellen – Journal of Staff Development, 2016
The major challenge with time is finding it. Current school-day schedules and school-year calendars are leaner than ever because of budget reductions. States and districts have implemented furlough days to balance lean-and-mean budgets that show no sign of improving. Few are willing to take the leap toward reducing instructional time to improve…
Descriptors: Time Factors (Learning), Time Management, Time on Task, Cooperative Learning
Mierke, Sara – Independent School, 2013
Even the most traditional independent schools have a starting point for expanding or integrating experiential education. Hawken was founded in 1915 as an alternative to existing traditional private education options for boys in Cleveland. James A. Hawken, a progressive New York educator, founded the school in a small house on the edge of…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Educational Change, Private Schools, Time Management
Lichtman, Grant – Independent School, 2015
In 2012, senior fellow at the Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence Grant Lichtman visited dozens of schools and interviewed hundreds of educators about what they see as the future of learning and of schools and published his findings in "#EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education" (Jossey-Bass, 2014). Since then, he has been…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Workshops, Best Practices
Kolbe, Tammy; Partridge, Mark; O'Reilly, Fran – National Center on Time & Learning, 2012
This report takes a first step toward filling the need for more information on time allocated to schooling. Data from the federal Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), the only nationally representative data source available for identifying variations in time across schools, are used to measure and document in-school time among the nation's…
Descriptors: Profiles, Charter Schools, Educational Change, Time Management
Stoilov, Todor, Ed. – InTech, 2012
The time management is worthy goal of many human activities. It concerns variety problems related to goals definition, assessment of available resources, control of management policies, scheduling of decisions. This book is an attempt to illustrate the decision making process in time management for different success stories, which can be used as…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Resource Allocation, Quality of Life, Decision Making
Public Impact, 2012
This brief shows how teachers in a Time-Technology swap school model may earn more, sustainably. In this model, schools use age-appropriate portions of digital learning (as little as about an hour daily per student) to free the time of excellent teachers to teach more students and potentially to collaborate with peers. By teaching more students,…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Job Development, Models
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Lewis, Scott E. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2011
This study describes an evaluation of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) reform model in first-semester general chemistry. PLTL was implemented in place of one-third of the available lecture time, maintaining the same amount of structured class time under the reform. The evaluation demonstrates that classes implementing the PLTL reform at the…
Descriptors: College Science, Chemistry, Introductory Courses, College Freshmen
Mindich, Dan; Lieberman, Ann – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2012
Teacher professional development is one of the most powerful influences on student achievement, and professional learning communities can be an excellent vehicle for high-quality PD. Mindich and Lieberman examine ways to implement effective PLCs. Education research has found that collegial work is connected to teachers' professional growth and…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Collegiality, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change
Samples, Tammy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Education reform has been on a new path over the last 15 years; a path that leads to more accountability, more choice for students and parents, highly qualified teachers, as well as, best practices in instruction. In an effort to move along the path of reform and as a result of previous reform, the 2004 reauthorization of IDEA reviewed the field…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Program Implementation, Counties, Educational Change
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