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Simmons, Marcus – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
This account of practice describes an experiential learning approach used for enterprise and entrepreneurship education in a UK higher education setting. Module design and delivery insights are drawn from the methods employed by an entrepreneur turned educator to facilitate learning via pop-up shop/event activities financed by a £50 seed fund.…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Learning Experience, Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education
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Iglesias, Víctor; Entrialgo, Montserrat; Müller, Frank – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to carry out an empirical examination of the supply-side factors influencing dropout rates in MBA programs. We analyze the extent to which the resources and characteristics of the program (content, teaching methodology, course load, class size, partnerships, reputation) influence these rates. A GLM analysis was…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Dropout Rate, Graduate Students
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Cheryl J. Travers; Dominique Morisano; Edwin A. Locke – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Background: Goal-setting theory continues to be among the most popular and influential theories of motivation and performance, although there have been limited academic applications relative to applications in other domains, such as organizational psychology. Aims: This paper summarizes existing quantitative research and then employs a qualitative…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Qualitative Research, Reflection, Academic Achievement
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Cassidy, Simon – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
Virtual learning environments (VLE) have become a standard feature of most courses in higher education, offering the potential to facilitate and improve teaching and learning. Whilst there is an implicit assumption that VLEs benefit student learning, much of the evidence originates from direct questioning of students about their satisfaction with…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Student Satisfaction, Undergraduate Students
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Costa, Cristina; Harris, Lisa – Curriculum Journal, 2017
This paper reports on the design and delivery of classroom pedagogies and students' engagement with it in two different UK universities. Under the banner of curriculum design and Bourdieu's curriculum principles, the study set out to create modules that provided students with an interdisciplinary perspective on how the web is changing the way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement
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Harris, Richard; Haydn, Terry – Research Papers in Education, 2012
Approximately 7 out of 10 pupils in England choose to exercise their right to drop history as a school subject as soon as they are able to do so (at the age of 13 or 14). However, this 30% overall take-up rate conceals massive variations between schools, with over 80% of pupils continuing to study the subject in some schools, and under 5% in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Student Attitudes, Compulsory Education