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Gutiérrez Pérez, Regina – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper deals with the new pedagogical approaches that the European Space of Higher Education (ESHE) demands in the university system. More specifically, it describes the experience of teaching the use of WebQuest to future educators in the module of foreign languages belonging to the "Máster de enseñanza de profesorado de educación…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Second Language Learning, Preservice Teacher Education, Blended Learning
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Leger, Lawrence A.; Glass, Karligash; Katsiampa, Paraskevi; Liu, Shibo; Sirichand, Kavita – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2017
We evaluate feedback methods for oral presentations used in training non-quantitative research skills (literature review and various associated tasks). Training is provided through a credit-bearing module taught to MSc students of banking, economics and finance in the UK. Monitoring oral presentations and providing "best practice"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Feedback (Response)
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Burgher, J. K.; Finkel, D.; Adesope, O. O.; Van Wie, B. J. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2015
This study used a within-subjects experimental design to compare the effects of learning with lecture and hands-on desktop learning modules (DLMs) in a fluid mechanics and heat transfer class. The hands-on DLM implementation included the use of worksheets and one of two heat exchangers: an evaporative cooling device and a shell and tube heat…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Hands on Science, Learning Modules, Mechanics (Physics)
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Grunwell, Stewart G. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2015
This study seeks to examine the processes through which leadership is fostered and developed within student leadership development programs. While there has been some scholarly literature written in this area, a dearth in the literature exists with respect to providing a detailed chronicle and examination of the complete processes employed within…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Leadership Training, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Schoeman, Sonja – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This study explores the potential of adopting a whole-school approach to the pastoral care module in a Postgraduate Certificate of Education Programme to ensure that all newly qualified teachers practice effective pastoral care in their classrooms and promote the learners' academic engagement and performance. A non-experimental survey research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Graduate Study, Teacher Education Programs
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Maitra, Saikat; Maitra, Srabani – Studies in Continuing Education, 2015
This paper examines employment-related training programmes offered by state funded agencies and multinational corporations in Toronto (Canada) and Kolkata (India). In recent years both cities have witnessed a rise in the service sector industries aligned with global regimes of flexible work and the consequent reinvention of a worker subject that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Training, Employees
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Horn, Savannah; Hernick, Marcy – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
Test-enhanced learning has successfully been used as a means to enhance learning and promote knowledge retention in students. We have examined whether this approach could be used in a biochemistry course to enhance student learning about lipids-related concepts. Students were provided access to two optional learning modules with questions related…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods, Learning Modules
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Despeaux, Sloan Evans – PRIMUS, 2015
Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature potentielle, or Workshop on potential literature), an over 50-year old movement that began in France, seeks to apply mathematical constraints to literature and the arts. In this article, I will give a brief survey of this movement and how I have built a learning module based on it for my mathematics for the liberal…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Teaching Methods
Abernathy, Frederick Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this research was to assess the attitudes of administrators in a medium sized school district in the Southeastern region of the United States. The researcher used a quantitative descriptive comparative pre-test and post-test design with a convenience sampling of the district administrators. There were 21 administrators at the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Learning Modules, Intervention
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Hunt, Jessica H.; Valentine, Courtney; Bryant, Diane Pedrotty; Pfannenstiel, Kathleen Hughes; Bryant, Brian R. – Remedial and Special Education, 2016
Researchers design scripted supplemental mathematics programs for struggling students, such as students with learning disabilities (LD), to encourage an evidence-based presentation of concepts and use of instructional language in teachers' implementation. In practice, teachers may or may not implement these programs with high fidelity, resulting…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Remedial Mathematics, Intervention, Special Education
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O'Neill, Geraldine; McNamara, Martin – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
A systematic approach to the training of graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) is required to meet the challenges posed by growing numbers of undergraduate and graduate students. At University College Dublin, educational developers and academic staff across six schools collaborated on the design and phased implementation of context-specific GTA…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Learning Modules, Professional Development, Teamwork
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Yao, Ru-Fen – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The main purposes of this one-year case study are to create learning environments for indigenous students through culture-based mathematics instructional modules, and what teachers' responds are in two tribes. The researcher leads sixteen in-service teachers and seven pre-service teachers to enter two indigenous tribes- "Cado" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Educational Environment, Culturally Relevant Education
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Jacobs, Danielle L.; Dalal, Heather A.; Dawson, Patricia H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
To develop information literacy skills in chemistry and biochemistry majors at a primarily undergraduate institution, a multiyear collaboration between chemistry faculty and librarians has resulted in the establishment of a semester-long capstone project for Organic Chemistry II. Information literacy skills were instilled via a progressive…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, College Science
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Jacobs, Danielle L.; Dalal, Heather A.; Dawson, Patricia H. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
The impetus to incorporate instruction on the efficient and responsible practice of chemical information literacy into the undergraduate chemistry curriculum has become exceptionally urgent. At Rider University, Chemical Information Instruction (CII) has accordingly evolved from face-to-face sessions into online modules to embed information…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, College Science
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Nicolaou, Anna; Sevilla-Pavón, Ana – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper examines university students' views about a Cypriot-Spanish telecollaboration project through which participants used Google+ Communities for intercultural exchange over the course of one semester. The project was established through the UNICollaboration platform and it involved first-year students at the Cyprus University of Technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Student Projects, Student Exchange Programs
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