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Andrew J. Collins; Brandon M. Butler; James F. Leathrum; Christopher J. Lynch – Studying Teacher Education, 2024
As the COVID-19 pandemic caused severe disruption to education enterprises throughout the world, the main response by educational institutions was to move to online learning environments. The purpose of this study was to understand better how instructors could improve online learning for a professional-level week-long short course in a highly…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Engineering Education, Electronic Learning
Yue Xu; Zhiwen Xiao; Sandra Vanegas – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2025
Children on the spectrum often require both formal services and natural unpaid support from caregivers. Recent autism surveillance study in the US has reported an increase in racially/ethnically diverse autistic children (Maenner et al. in MMWR Surveillance Summaries 72(2):1, 2023). Standing at the intersection of race, disability and sometimes…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Students with Disabilities, Parents, Multi Tiered Systems of Support
Eshelman, Traci C.; Hogue, Mark – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2023
This case study aimed to discover pre-service teacher perceptions of a technology integration micro-course called TPACK_ID at XY University (pseudonym). The theories guiding this study were TPACK and the learner-centered education paradigm. TPACK_ID provided effective foundations for pre-service teachers to integrate technology using…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Circelli, Michelle; Stanwick, John – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2020
This report examines whether a distinction can be made in Australian VET between initial vocational education and training (IVET) and continuing vocational education and training (CVET), as applies in a number of other countries. Assisting students to more effectively identify and undertake courses that will optimise their outcomes from VET is the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Professional Continuing Education, Definitions
Gilda Azurdia; Richard Kazis; Caroline Schultz; Katerina Galkin – MDRC, 2024
Postsecondary education and middle-skills occupational training are viewed as important paths to higher-paying jobs and careers. Lifelong learning pathways geared toward working learners aged 25 and older also seem essential for career advancement and professional growth in the current job market. However, many learners face financial and other…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Job Training, Access to Education, Student Costs
Frank, Mary Margaret; Haskins, Mark E.; Lynch, Luann J. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
Many successful non-financial managers aspire to contribute at the larger table of management decision making. To do so necessitates broadening their skills to include financial acumen. For non-financial managers, learning new financial constructs can be daunting, and knowing when to use which tool is challenging. We describe a…
Descriptors: Management Development, Business Administration Education, Instructional Design, Minicourses
Onsman, Andrys – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
This paper questions the value of the current trend towards mandating formal teaching accreditation in higher education and argues that the "just-in-time" nature of short training programmes coupled with on-going occasional mentoring is likely to result in more productive professional development for academic teachers. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Mentors, Teacher Certification
Nipper, Kelli; Ricks, Thomas; Kilpatrick, Jeremy; Mayhew, Lauren; Thomas, Sharren; Kwon, Na Young; Klerlein, Jacob T.; Hembree, Dennis – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to better understand teacher tensions in professional development. The population under study was practicing mathematics teachers engaged in a week-long professional development institute. Data sources included observations, interviews, and teacher products (such as registration forms, surveys, journals, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Problems, Inservice Teacher Education, Observation
Gleeson, Margaret; Tait, Carolyn – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This qualitative case study examines a sojourn in an English speaking country for a group of experienced teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL). Sojourner learning was interpreted through a community of practice perspective. These participants formed a transitory community in the host country to support their academic and social learning.…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Qualitative Research, Study Abroad, Language Teachers
Raider-Roth, Miriam; Stieha, Vicki; Hensley, Billy – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This action inquiry article examines veteran teachers' learning in a week-long professional development seminar. We describe moments of disconnection in key learning relationships (teacher, learner, text) and analyze relational-cultural dynamics that contributed to the disconnections. We investigate the dynamics that facilitate repair within the…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Research Methodology, Classroom Communication, Interpersonal Relationship
Branon, Rovy F., III – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Design research systematically creates or improves processes, products, and programs through an iterative progression connecting practice and theory (Reinking, 2008; van den Akker, 2006). Developing a new instructional systems design (ISD) processes through design research is necessary when new technologies emerge that challenge existing practices…
Descriptors: Design Requirements, Guidelines, Instructional Materials, Instructional Design
George, Daniel R. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2011
Introduction: Health professionals are working in an era of social technologies that empower users to generate content in real time. This article describes a 3-part continuing education minicourse called "Friending Facebook?" undertaken at Penn State Hershey Medical Center that aimed to model the functionality of current technologies in…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Web Sites, Computer Mediated Communication, Health Occupations
Lemmer, E. M.; Muller, H. – Africa Education Review, 2011
The relevance of short learning programmes as an alternative to full-time tertiary degree courses at open and distance learning institutions forms the primary focus of this article. A new kind of student is on the increase in higher education: the mature student who prefers to study part-time in order to combine his or her studies with the…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, Minicourses, Open Education, Distance Education
Barclay, Matthew W. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of the readiness assurance process of team-based learning (TBL) in virtually isolated settings. Many Internet sites offer courses for adults to use on their own without access to mentors or other learners. However, educational theory suggests that people learn better with others than by…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Adult Education, Program Effectiveness, Cooperative Learning
Bey, Claudia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Preservice foreign-language teachers are adults with well-established beliefs. They start teacher-education programs with traditional beliefs about language teaching reflecting their own experiences. The field of foreign-language teaching, however, underwent a paradigm shift from grammar-based to communicative foreign-language instruction.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Native Speakers, Immigrants
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