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Janine Haenen; Sylvia Vink; Ellen Sjoer; Wilfried Admiraal – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
In honours programmes, teachers face the task of designing courses in which students feel challenged and learn from accomplishing demanding assignments. The aim of this study was to investigate students' and teachers' perceptions of challenge and learning in an honours programme. From 2016 to 2019, students and teachers rated the learning…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Learning Activities
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Egan, Rylan; Dalgarno, Nancy; Reid, Mary-Anne; Coderre-Ball, Angela; Fahey, Caryn; Kelley, Leah; Kinderman, Laura; Adams, Michael – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
In September 2016, Queen's University launched the first, fully online, 4-year Bachelor of Health Science degree program in Canada. This paper reports on the developmental structure, implementation philosophy, and challenges in the development of this competency-based program. All stakeholders directly involved in program development were invited…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Effectiveness, Educational Innovation, Online Courses
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Engel, Steven; Keeley, Howard – Honors in Practice, 2015
As universities have made experiential learning opportunities available to more and more of their students, a question arises about what makes honors experiential learning distinctive (Donahue). In the university-wide honors program at Georgia Southern University, authors Steven Engel, and Howard Keeley asked this question about honors study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Research, Study Abroad, Honors Curriculum
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Cognard-Black, Andrew J.; Savage, Hallie – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
When a well-developed honors curriculum is paired with co-curricular opportunities, it serves to distinguish an institution's honors education. Together, these curricular and co-curricular experiences are described as best practices in the National Collegiate Honors Council's (NCHC's) "Basic Characteristics of a Fully Developed Honors…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Institutional Characteristics, Best Practices, Guidelines
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Rhea, David M.; Goodwin, Kristy – Honors in Practice, 2014
In 2013-2014, the Governors State University (GSU) Honors Program was faced with a need to evolve from a two-year honors program serving juniors and seniors only to a four-year honors program. This need was born out of the university's transition to a four-year university in 2014-2015. This mandate led to some concerns that the author, the newly…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Undergraduate Students, State Universities, Student Recruitment
Sederberg, Peter C., Ed. – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2009
One enduring, and perhaps endearing, characteristic of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) is its commitment to pluralism. NCHC recognizes that excellent honors educational opportunities can be cultivated across the diverse settings of American higher education from two-year community colleges through large, comprehensive research…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Honors Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Surveys