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Yang, Ya-Fei; Lee, Chien-I; Chang, Chih-Kai – Education for Information, 2016
Collaborative learning is an activity in which two or more students learn something together. Many studies have found that collaborative learning improve students' memory retention and motivation to learn. Peer Instruction (PI) is one of the most successful evidence-based collaborative learning methods. This article investigates issues of student…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Retention (Psychology), Computer Science Education, Programming
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Geerdink, Gerda; Boei, Fer; Willemse, Martijn; Kools, Quinta; Van Vlokhoven, Haske – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
Most teacher educators who work at institutes for higher vocational education have faced a new role since the European Community aimed to upgrade the general quality of education. Research tasks have been added as a new important core business for institutes that used to be mainly focused on education. Teacher educators therefore have to become…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Research Skills
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Nichols, Mark – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2016
Open Polytechnic is a single-mode provider of distance education with a rich history of print-based provision. Strategically, the institution is rapidly adopting an online-only approach, with some exceptions for programmes that require student contact. A recent and internal review of Moodle, the Open Polytechnic's learning management system (LMS)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Online Courses, Integrated Learning Systems
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DeCuir-Gunby, Jessica T.; Gunby, Norris W., Jr. – Urban Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of racial microaggressions, racial/ethnic identity, and coping, as they relate to job satisfaction. We found that the experiencing of racial microaggressions negatively affects job satisfaction and that educators in higher education contexts often engage in detachment coping. Job satisfaction was…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, African Americans, Aggression, Work Environment
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McKenna, Ann F.; Johnson, Amy M.; Yoder, Brian; Chavela Guerra, Rocio C.; Pimmel, Russell – Journal of Faculty Development, 2016
Communities of practice, which enable sustained collaboration among fellow practitioners, have potential for advancement of faculty development, but traditionally employ face-to-face meetings with inherent economic and geographical limitations. Our virtual community of practice (VCP) model exposes engineering instructors from across the country to…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Virtual Classrooms, Faculty Development, Engineering Education
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Fakunmoju, Sunday; Donahue, Gilpatrick R.; McCoy, Shandria; Mengel, Alison S. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Knowledge about life satisfaction and learning experience among first-year graduate students is sparse, despite its relevance to instructional decisions, academic support, and success of students. Adequate knowledge is crucial, as it may help graduate students manage personal and professional life changes associated with graduate education. Using…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Life Satisfaction, Learning Experience, Social Work
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Brouwers, André; Tomic, Welko – Educational Practice and Theory, 2016
The aim of the current study was to examine among educational staff members of residential children's homes to what extent task demands, job control, emotional and social support from colleagues and management as well as self-efficacy beliefs concerning coping with aggressive behaviour in youngsters are associated with emotional exhaustion,…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Self Efficacy, Children, Beliefs
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Brasiel, Sarah; Martin, Taylor; Jeong, Soojeong; Yuan, Min – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
An extensive body of research has demonstrated that the use in a K-12 classroom of technology, such as the Internet, computers, and software programs, enhances the learning of mathematics (Cheung & Slavin, 2013; Cohen & Hollebrands, 2011). In particular, growing empirical evidence supports that certain types of technology, such as…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Education
LaRochelle-Côté, Sébastien; Hango, Darcy – Statistics Canada, 2016
Based on a self-reported measure of overqualification, this article examines the association between overqualification and skills among workers aged 25 to 64 with a university degree, using data from the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). This article also examines the extent to which overqualified…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Skills, Adults, Foreign Countries
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Abruquah, Emmanuel; Dosa, Ildiko; Duda, Grazyna – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This article discusses some practical ideas associated with a pilot intercultural telecollaboration project. The aim of the project was to connect students from five countries: Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Spain, and to make them interact using social media, such as Facebook, Skype, Google Hangouts, etc. There were success stories…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Opportunities, Intercultural Programs, Student Exchange Programs
Evans, Molly Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In public schools, the principal's role is of paramount importance in influencing teachers to excel and to keep their job satisfaction high. The self-efficacy of leaders is an important characteristic of leadership, but this issue has not been extensively explored in school principals. Using internet-based questionnaires, this study obtained…
Descriptors: Principals, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
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Savvidou, Georgia; Loizides, Fernando – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This work presents the assistive use of a combination of technologies in language learning to individuals with high functioning disabilities within a higher education environment. The primary aim of this research is to introduce the initial findings of a pilot exploratory user test which aims to facilitate a better understanding of the suitability…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Second Language Instruction, Educational Technology, Higher Education
Allen, I. Elaine; Seaman, Jeff – Babson Survey Research Group, 2016
The objective of this study is to better understand the process by which faculty members select the educational materials that they employ in their courses. The educational resource that people are most familiar with is the required textbook: faculty members select one or more books that all students are required to use through the duration of the…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Textbook Selection, Higher Education, Textbooks
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Abdelrahman, Limia Ali Mohamed; DeWitt, Dorothy; Alias, Norlidah; Rahman, Mohd Nazri Abdul – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
Sudanese students seem to lack proficiency in writing English. In addition, teachers continue to use traditional, teacher-centered methods in teaching English as a second language (ESL). The flipped learning (FL) approach where video lectures are assigned as online homework before class, followed by learning activities during class, might be able…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Second Language Instruction
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Kisanjara, S. B.; Tossy, T. M.; Sife, A. S.; Msanjila, S. S. – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2017
Information and Communication Technologies have influenced the landscape of education sector by changing the way various education activities are being conducted. From the perspectives of Tanzania, this paper provides an integrated model for measuring the impact of e-learning on students' achievements in universities. A Mixed method research…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Academic Achievement, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
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