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Shaw, Cassandra S.; Irwin, Kathleen C. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2017
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between forum quality and student engagement. It was hypothesized when the forum prompt was of expected quality it would be a driver of student engagement and examined the length of the forum prompt in relation to student engagement. The methodology adopted for this study was…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning, Regression (Statistics), Virtual Universities
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Gupta, Shubhi; Pathak, Govind Swaroop – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2017
Despite several efforts to bring about a clear phenomenon of virtual teams, there is still some confusion as to how virtual teams should be defined. It is probably because the characteristics of virtual teams and relationships among them have not been consistent. To address this gap, the present study explores the nature of virtual teams by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Graduate Students, Business Administration Education
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Arevalo, Javier – Research Management Review, 2017
Bibliometric benchmarking can be an aid to researchers pondering whether to apply for competitive grants. In this paper, the highly prestigious grants offered by the European Research Council to young scientists of any nationality were scrutinized. The analysis of the 2014-2015 data indicates that over 75% of life science grantees in the starting…
Descriptors: Grantsmanship, Grants, Research Projects, Research Proposals
Carlton, Mary Poulin – National Institute of Justice, 2017
Several high-profile incidents of violence at U.S. schools have, understandably, raised concerns about the safety of students while at school. Just one incident of violence causes significant harm. In light of this, it is important to examine commonly held beliefs about school safety and violence because they sometimes reflect a misperception or…
Descriptors: School Safety, Violence, Educational Environment, Crime
King, Tara – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Online education continues to grow and change and different colleges and universities have varying degrees of faculty control over course design. This multiple case study investigated patterns in the efficacy of faculty who teach online courses in relation to the faculty members' involvement in the creation of elements of course design. The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Curriculum Design, Case Studies, Teacher Effectiveness
Slattery, Mary F. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Educational reform efforts over the past several decades have focused on different ways to address student achievement. Since the quality of the teacher that students have is one of the biggest in-school factors that impact student achievement, schools have focused on identifying, measuring, and improving teacher quality. Some of those reform…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Public Schools, School Administration, Administrators
Pena, Philip Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2017
State support of community colleges has been reduced in recent years and is not expected to recover to previous levels, even though costs continue to rise. While many colleges have increased tuition in response to this situation, students cannot afford endless increases in tuition. While predicting the future is difficult, it is likely that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Costs, Models, Two Year College Students
Leuhusen, Fredrik Carl Axel Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Revenue diversification is a term that becomes more relevant as higher education institutions are confronted with increased regulation, competition, declining enrollments, and strained finances. A challenge that many institutions face is that expenditures are higher than revenues and increase faster than them. The term Revenue diversification…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Income, College Administration
Pelfrey, Patricia A. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2017
A 1966 University of California academic plan estimated that future enrollments would soar to well over 200,000 before leveling off, and that by 1975 student demand would require two more UC campuses in addition to the ones opened a few years earlier at Santa Cruz, Irvine, and San Diego. The 1970 US census brought these stratospheric assumptions…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Administration, Educational Development, Educational Practices
Mednick Takami, Lisa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Chief Diversity Officers remain a relatively new phenomenon among higher education executive leadership positions. Existing literature on CDOs' professional profile, their ability to impact campus climate for diversity, and their obstacles in the pursuit of campus climate change and deeper cultural transformation is still quite limited. This basic…
Descriptors: Diversity (Institutional), Administrators, College Administration, College Environment
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; González-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Díaz, Josefina; Cardona-T., Jose-Gerardo; Rendon, Hector; Chavoya, Jorge; Gutiérrez-Cardenas, Sandra-Milena; Álvarez, María-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquín; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Morfín, María; Álvarez, Miguel; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
The policy of reorganising schools in pedagogical cycles has been restored little by little in the state schools of the city of Bogota. This reform began in the year 2008 in Codema College, which faced a number of challenges, personal as much as institutional. The reform depended upon the participation and engagement of the educational community…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Practices
Shella, Andrew J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study analyzed the ways the implementation of instructional technology proscribes higher-education faculty work as coded in faculty collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). This study replicates and extends the work on the production politics of teaching and technology completed by Rhoades (1998). Collective bargaining agreements were…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Educational Technology, College Faculty, Contracts
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Okolie, Ugochukwu Chinonso; Nwajiuba, Chinyere Augusta; Eneje, Beatrice; Binuomote, Michael Olayinka; Ehiobuche, Christian; Hack-Polay, Dieu – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
This study explores how Nigerian higher education institutions can facilitate industry involvement in the design of programmes and activities that enhance the development of students' knowledge and skills for business start-ups, leading to job creation. Using interview and focus group methodologies, the researchers obtained rich information from…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Mentors, College Seniors, Industry
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Kundu, Arnab; Bej, Tripti – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021
In most cases, private schools in India are considered to have sufficient ICT resources for teaching-learning in 21st century classrooms and are assumed to be leaders in technology integration in the school pedagogy in this country. This study aimed to investigate the state of ICT integration and the degree of expertise these schools have…
Descriptors: Private Schools, High School Students, Technology Integration, Information Technology
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Sales, Auxiliadora; Moliner, Odet; Traver, Joan – Research Papers in Education, 2021
Participatory Action Research (PAR) in the educational context is a coherent methodology to accompany processes of school democratisation focusing on the key elements of collaborative culture, a sense of belonging and social transformation from an inclusive and intercultural approach. The present case study of a rural school in the Valencian…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Inclusion, School Culture
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