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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"higher education teaching"”.
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The use of drama-based techniques in higher education teaching
… examine how the use of drama-based techniques in higher education teaching could contribute to lecturer effectiveness in supporting student engagement. The framework for evaluating teaching effectiveness was drawn from the study by Heffernan et al (2010). The aims of the study were as follows: (a) …
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Teaching excellence : an illusive goal in higher education teaching and learning
… global community seeks ‘excellence’ across all higher education roles: community engagement and leadership, research and innovation, and teaching and learning. However, universities are not always regarded as effective in fulfilling the needs of students, business or communities well. This …
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Championing Pedagogical Innovators: Supporting and Empowering Informal Leaders in Higher Education Teaching & Learning Spaces
… leaders—particularly contract, pretenure, and teaching-stream faculty—at a large Canadian research-intensive university (pseudonym: Scholar University). Although these educators are central to undergraduate teaching and student success, they often face systemic precarity, invisibility, and …
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Learning to Walk the Walk: Narrative Exploration of Diversity Training for Higher Education Teaching
Today’s higher education classrooms are made up of an increasingly wide variety of students with varying life and cultural influences, learning styles, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and spiritual beliefs. A large and increasing proportion of the student population in the United States …
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From Adoption to Actionability: Investigating Learning Analytics Integration in Learning Design for Higher Education Teaching Practice
… analytics has gained significant attention in higher education, educators find it a constant challenge to translate learning analytics insights into actionable learning design decisions. This thesis investigates the integration of learning analytics in learning design through a theoretically …
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The integration of mobile learning app-based quiz-games in higher education teaching of anatomical sciences
… tools that are continuously evolving in Higher Education. Their efficiency as learning tools is not fully understood and their use by staff is sporadic and sometimes viewed poorly compared to traditional methods. Aim: To determine a framework of best practice for the integration of …
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The Effect of Blackboard Tools on the Community of Inquiry and Learner Satisfaction with Learning Management System-Enabled Courses
<p>Online education has increased in popularity throughout higher education in recent decades, with learning management systems (LMSs) now being used by the majority of higher education institutions throughout the United States (Allen, Seaman, Poulin, & Straut, 2016). The Community of Inquiry (CoI) …
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Designing Social Micro-Learning Interventions for Blended Learning Scenarios in Higher Education: Mixed Methods Case Study at Macromedia University of Applied Sciences
… in enhancing blended learning within higher education. Addressing the shift towards digital and competency-based teaching, the main research question was formulated as follows: “How valuable is it for higher education to support blended learning with social micro-learning …
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The Impact of Place-Based Education Professional Development on Faculty Identity and Perceptions of Nature-Culture Dichotomies
… study analyzes how implementing place-based education (PBE) in undergraduate coursework shapes faculty identity narratives and nature–culture positionalities across conceptual lenses of past, present, and future. Three faculty members at a regional Mississippi university engaged in a PBE …
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Approaches to Support Student Learning in Introductory Programming Laboratory Classes
… to communication difficulties that exist in higher education teaching of introductory programming. Communication between a teacher and student is important, as it is the main opportunity where a student can ask a teacher questions about a particular problem they have, and a teacher can give …
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Using technology to enhance learning, progression and achievement in higher education
The efficiency of the use of technology in higher education teaching and learning has seen limited research which has been mainly theoretical in nature. The research aims to identify the effects of using technology to enhance learning, progression and achievement in Higher Education. The literature …
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Faculty Perceptions about Instructional Technology in Eight Community Colleges in the Tennessee Board of Regents Higher Education System.
… gender, age, professional status, years of higher education teaching experience, and tenure versus nontenure status with their degree of technology use.</p><p>An online survey was designed to collect data to address the research questions in the study. The survey consisted of 44 questions, …
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Toward the Contemplative Technopedagogy Framework: A Multi-Site Analysis of Pedagogy and Digital Technology in Contemporary US Higher Education
… decisions regarding digital technologies in US higher education. Digital technology permeates contemporary US higher education. Despite the ever-increasing presence of digital technology, various higher education stakeholders give inadequate attention to matters of pedagogy. The uncritical …
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Feedback in Higher Education: Chinese Undergraduate Students’ Understandings and Experiences of Feedback
… With reference to the context of Chinese higher education, relatively little attention has been paid to students’ perceptions and experiences of feedback and how these influence their actions outside of the English as a foreign language context. Located within interpretive inquiry, the …
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Investigating the library research support services in the Faculty of Education, University of Namibia (UNAM): A Hifikepunye Pohamba Campus focus
… research support services in the Faculty of Education at Hifikepunye Pohamba (HP) Campus, University of Namibia. The research problem is that UNAM has an interest in growing its research, but the library does not have strong research support services; these needed to be investigated, along …
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Investigating the library research support services in the Faculty of Education, University of Namibia (UNAM): a Hifikepunye Pohamba Campus focus
… research support services in the Faculty of Education at Hifikepunye Pohamba (HP) Campus, University of Namibia. The research problem is that UNAM has an interest in growing its research, but the library does not have strong research support services; these needed to be investigated, along …
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Personal meanings and perceptions of faculty regarding recognition and reward among the three university missions
… expansion, and rapid growth of institutions of higher education (IHEs) between 1950 and 1970, campuses started to show signs of financial stress. By 1970, a number of institutions were faced with financial difficulties due to declining resources and steady increases in enrollment (Hansen & …
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Uso de herramientas Web 2.0 en Educación Superior: estudio de caso
El objetivo de este estudio de caso fue favorecer un cambio en la experiencia del aprendizaje del alumnado que elabora las actividades con herramientas Web 2.0 en una asignatura universitaria a fin de analizar el cambio real de aprendizaje. Se empleó un diseño de investigación con métodos mixtos. …
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Defining and assessing teaching effectiveness in higher education
Teaching effectiveness in higher education is challenging. Given the number of stakeholders and the reasons for assessing teaching effectiveness creates additional challenges. Yet when tying teaching effectiveness to successful student learning outcomes and combining those interests to a case study …
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