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Scheffer, Ana Paula; Pagnussat Cechetti, Viviane; Lauermann, Lisandra Paola; Riasyk Porto, Eliara; Dalla Rosa, Francisco – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: The United Nations (2030 Agenda) recognize the need to work with sustainable urban mobility problems such as traffic jams, pollution, inadequate infrastructure are becoming recurring issues in urban centers, directly affecting the quality of life. Such an unsustainable system is frequently observed at universities, as these houses a large…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Social Problems, Quality of Life, Strategic Planning
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Moon, Cameron; Bartholomew, Scott R.; Weitlauf, John – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2019
This article describes a lesson in which students will utilize ideation and engineering design to innovate a solution to a design problem using common household products.
Descriptors: Engineering, Design, Innovation, Concept Formation
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Riveros, Héctor G. – European Journal of Physics Education, 2019
This paper discusses the importance of one of the most crucial elements in science and technology education: the development of the individual capacity to cope with new problems. Also, discuss the importance of being aware of the existence of "formative objectives" and "tacit knowledge". In the planning of a course, taking into…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Instructional Design, Curriculum Design
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Selwyn, Neil – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2019
This article summarizes some emerging concerns as learning analytics become implemented throughout education. The article takes a sociotechnical perspective -- positioning learning analytics as shaped by a range of social, cultural, political, and economic factors. In this manner, various concerns are outlined regarding the propensity of learning…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Criticism, Politics of Education, Educational Objectives
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Stylianou, Michalis; Hogan, Anna; Enright, Eimear – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
Youth sport policies are increasingly driven by health concerns and social issues, and focus on broad participation outcomes. Given the significant financial investment in, and critique of, such policies internationally, this study aimed to examine the implementation of Sporting Schools (SS), a $100 million programme intended to increase…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Athletics, Physical Education
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Cho, Vincent; Hamilton, Erica R.; Tuthill, Kaitlyn F. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: Although organizational visions can guide everyday work, little is known about how visions relating to non-academic goals, such as social justice, might be integrated into educators' technology practices. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze one school's 1:1 iPad initiative, including the potential role played by the…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Educational Objectives, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Love, Tyler S.; Roy, Ken R. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2019
Field trips offer inspiring opportunities for students to see theory in practice and participate in student organization competitions. They also include increased hazards and consequential risks that require special attention to safety planning and supervision. Teachers must be cognizant about strategies to mitigate these risks prior to planning a…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Safety, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Safrudiannur; Rott, Benjamin – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2019
The results of international comparative studies like PISA and TIMSS attract researchers to conduct studies comparing math contents of curricula directly to each other. Unlike those studies, we compared math contents of Indonesian and Singaporean curricula based on math contents tested in PISA 2012 items. We also enrich the comparison with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Sugahara, Satoshi; Lau, David – Journal of Education for Business, 2019
The authors examine the determinants of the effective implementation of game-based learning (GBL) for experiential learning. They focus on the successful GBL initiative called Management Game (MG) and adopt the theory-driven deductive thematic analysis approach of Boyatzis along with the Matsuo model as theoretical rationale. Overall, the findings…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Experiential Learning, Accounting, Educational Games
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Heileman, Gregory L.; Abdallah, Chaouki T. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
While occupying various academic leadership positions, the authors repeatedly encounter the use of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation to influence decision making around engineering curricula. For instance, ABET criteria are commonly cited as the reason why particular changes to engineering programs, such…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Engineering Education, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
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Alam, Arshad – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2019
Syed Ahmed Khan is understood as the harbinger of modern education amongst Muslims of South Asia. There is a general scholarly consensus that it was through his educational efforts that English medium education came to Muslims who were otherwise aligned with traditional religious education. The commentary argues that this consensus needs revision…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction
Nurhadi – Online Submission, 2019
In this Modern era, mosques are very grand and luxurious as a form of development of Islamic civilization. Not only for ubudiyah, the mosque is one of the non-formal educational facilities for the Islamic community. In order for the mosque to function properly in Islamic law. So it needs an applicative and simple theory, according to the author,…
Descriptors: Islam, Muslims, Spiritual Development, Religious Education
Hopkins, Mark Loren – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Using archival records preserved by Iowa's community colleges, private four-year colleges, and public universities, this dissertation examines how Iowa's established higher education institutions responded to and adjusted to the "presence" of new two-year colleges from 1965 to 1975. This decade was a critical period of development for…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Community Colleges, Educational History
Michael Rogers – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This research used a one shot, comparative, thematic analysis to listen for, analyze, and explicate: (1) best practices in teaching specialist level advocacy skills at micro, mezzo and macro levels, (2) the field instructors' motivators that affected their prioritization of learning objectives, (3) obstacles to prioritize the teaching of these…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
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David Glassmeyer – Numeracy, 2019
This study examines how a models-and-modeling perspective affected teachers' attention to quantitative reasoning in task design. A Model-Eliciting Activity (MEA) was implemented with 21 teachers over four weeks, challenging teachers to design a quantitative reasoning task for their students. Teachers' initial quantitative reasoning tasks did not…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Skills
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