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Spooner, David – Planning for Higher Education, 2011
Whether a campus is large or small, the idea of a 10-minute walk is an important human-scaled design standard that affects an institution in significant ways beyond just getting students to class on time. Designing a 10-minute walk seems like a simple exercise. Based on earlier information, all one needs to do is provide a walking surface and make…
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Physical Activities, Master Plans, Campuses
Gonzalez, Gabriella C.; Siler-Evans, Kyle; Hunter, Gerald Paul; Baird, Matthew D. – RAND Corporation, 2016
This first of five annual reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing--related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education indicators in the Appalachia Partnership Initiative (API) region. Together, these reports will capture trends over the next four years to (1) inform the…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Fuels, Industry, Wages
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Balantic, Jeannette; Fregosi, Erica – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2012
According to the authors, five years ago their school district embraced Understanding by Design as the organizing framework for curriculum. The emphasis on enduring understandings and essential questions led the sixth grade social studies teachers to reevaluate what they were teaching in their World History Curriculum. Together the authors worked…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Writing Skills, Curriculum Development, Learner Engagement
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Styhre, Alexander – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: Professional communities are capable of maintaining their social status and role in society on the basis of a blend of technical and formal expertise, know-how, and an understanding of the non-professional's demands and expectations. In architectural work, professional expertise largely centres on the visual capacities of the architect,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Visual Perception, Role, Foreign Countries
Breeding, Marshall – Computers in Libraries, 2010
People live in an era of social, enterprise-oriented, and increasingly cloud-based technology; a dramatic shift away from stand-alone isolated silos that previously dominated. Computing systems can flourish today only when built to easily exchange data and services. An application that stands alone may provide practical functionality but may not…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Libraries, Educational Technology, Internet
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Casakin, Hernan; Kreitler, Shulamith – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2010
The investigation reported here dealt with the study of motivation for creativity. The goals were to assess motivation for creativity in architectural design and engineering design students based on the Cognitive Orientation theory which defines motivation as a function of a set of belief types, themes, and groupings identified as relevant for the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Building Design, Architecture, Intervention
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Lott, Debra – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2010
Louisville, Kentucky is an eclectic town of architectural styles from Greek revival to Renaissance Revival to Post modernism, not to mention an entire street dedicated to artsy mom and pop stores. Louisville is second only to the New York City Soho district in terms of the number of its cast-iron facades. Many of these building's fronts have…
Descriptors: Architecture, Studio Art, Art Activities, Municipalities
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Dehinbo, Johnson – Information Systems Education Journal, 2011
The widespread use of the Internet and the World Wide Web led to the availability of many platforms for developing dynamic Web application and the problem of choosing the most appropriate platform that will be easy to use for undergraduate students of web applications development in tertiary institutions. Students beginning to learn web…
Descriptors: Internet, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education
O'Donnell, Sean; Cuthbert, Marjorie; Cronin, Abbie; Urbieta, Melissa Nosal – Educational Facility Planner, 2011
Just 19 months after the start of design, Stoddert Elementary School's modernized and expanded campus in northwest Washington, DC reopened, welcoming back the school and its community. Featuring spaces that had been missing since the school was founded in 1932, such as a gym, cafeteria, and library/media center and up-to-date building systems and…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Global Approach, Energy, Acoustics
Rosenblum, Todd – Exceptional Parent, 2009
The question of remodeling an existing house to make it wheelchair accessible or building a new barrier-free house is a difficult decision. This article presents some initial questions and considerations followed by a list of pros and cons for remodeling an existing house vs. building a new house.
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Architecture, Interior Design, Design Requirements
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Zagacki, Kenneth S.; Gallagher, Victoria J. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2009
The material rhetoric of physical locations like the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art creates "spaces of attention" wherein visitors are invited to experience the landscape around them as a series of enactments that identify the inside/outside components of sub/urban existence, as well as the regenerative/transformative…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Museums, Art, Physical Environment
Ribaric, Tim J. – Computers in Libraries, 2009
Almost everything is now available online. What is good about this is that in most circumstances, libraries are no longer limited to serving users within just physical spaces. This proves to be a wonderful benefit for users, but sometimes it does not always work out as expected. Those familiar with setting up electronic resources know the…
Descriptors: Testing, Internet, Client Server Architecture, Computer Software
Bryson, Barbara White – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Flying into China is both exhilarating and daunting. The great cities of this country confront each visitor with modernity and antiquity, sparkling skyscrapers and hazy pollution, growing consumerism and extensive poverty, as well as the opportunities and challenges of a built environment, expanding at a rate exceeding that of any other country in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Architecture, Graduate Students
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Bruno, F. B.; Silva, T. L. K.; Silva, R. P.; Teixeira, F. G. – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a web-based tool that enables the development and provision of learning designs and its reuse and re-contextualization as generative learning objects, aimed at developing educational materials. Design/methodology/approach: The use of learning objects can facilitate the process of production and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials, Material Development, Concept Mapping
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Chan, Eric – European Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The millennial generation is facing challenges in their career path and they believe that tertiary education can help them to equip better to tackle against. However, some students find it difficult to rush back to classroom due to work commitment. Fortunately, flexible education developed these years allows students to capture knowledge anytime…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Delivery Systems, Architecture, Construction Management
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