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Santaoja, Minna – On the Horizon, 2022
Purpose: Eco-social crises such as the loss of biodiversity call for transformative learning. This study analyzes the prospects of social media in learning about nature. Design/methodology/approach: The study is placed in the intersection of science and technology studies, futures studies, environmental social sciences, and environmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Biological Sciences, Social Media
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Tarja Tuononen; Heidi Hyytinen; Katri Kleemola; Telle Hailikari; Auli Toom – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Teachers' conceptions of teaching play a key role in the pedagogical practices they apply in their teaching. Previous studies of conceptions of teaching generic skills have been mainly qualitative with small samples, and thus there is a need for a more extensive quantitative study. This study investigates the associations between higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience
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Kauppila, Osmo; Mursula, Anu; Harkonen, Janne; Kujala, Jaakko – Tertiary Education and Management, 2015
The growth in university-industry collaboration has resulted in an increasing demand for methods to evaluate it. This paper presents one way to evaluate an organization's collaborative activities based on the European Foundation of Quality Management excellence model. Success factors of collaboration are derived from literature and compared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship, Models, Cooperation
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Pirhonen, Juhani; Rasi, Päivi – Journal of Biological Education, 2017
The central focus of this study is a learning method in which university students produce instructional videos about the content matter as part of their learning process, combined with other learning assignments. The rationale for this is to promote a more multimodal pedagogy, and to provide students opportunities for a more learner-centred,…
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, Student Developed Materials, Video Technology, Learning Processes
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Räisänen, Milla; Tuononen, Tarja; Postareff, Liisa; Hailikari, Telle; Virtanen, Viivi – Higher Education Studies, 2016
This case study explores the assessment of students' learning outcomes in a second-year lecture course in biosciences. The aim is to deeply explore the teacher's and the students' experiences of the validity and reliability of assessment and to compare those perspectives. The data were collected through stimulated recall interviews. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation, Science Education
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Hyytinen, Heidi; Holma, Katariina; Toom, Auli; Shavelson, Richard J.; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari – Frontline Learning Research, 2014
The study utilized a multi-method approach to explore the connection between critical thinking and epistemological beliefs in a specific problem-solving situation. Data drawn from a sample of ten third-year bioscience students were collected using a combination of a cognitive lab and a performance task from the Collegiate Learning Assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Biological Sciences, Student Attitudes
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Lakkala, Minna; Toom, Auli; Ilomäki, Liisa; Muukkkonen, Hanni – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Higher education institutions should not only aim to educate academic experts who master their own fields, but also give their students generic skills important in the current society. New teaching methods are required to support the development of such skills. The study examined how a group of voluntary university lecturers re-designed their…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cooperation, Knowledge Level, Teaching Methods
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Blomster, Jaanika; Venn, Stephen; Virtanen, Viivi – Higher Education Studies, 2014
This study aims to determine whether bioscience teachers and researchers in a research-intensive university have consistent views on research-based teaching, and to evaluate whether teachers' conceptions and views on practical teaching methods are aligned. Fifty-eight teachers completed a questionnaire concerning conceptions and practices of…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Science Teachers, Research Universities, Teacher Attitudes
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Chiang, Kuang-Hsu – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
This paper examines the educational implications of research collaboration between university and industry for the research training of doctoral students. It is concerned with the issues of how research training is constructed in such collaborations and what might be the effects of collaboration on doctoral students' learning. The study adopts a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Business Relationship, Biological Sciences, Research and Development
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O'Meara, Mary – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2009
Micronutrient malnutrition affects the health and well being of 3 billion people globally. Identifying means to improve the micronutrient density in the edible portions of crops is an important way to combat nutrient deficiencies. By studying how plants obtain micronutrients from the soil, we can develop methods to enhance uptake. Although more…
Descriptors: Well Being, Science Education, Plants (Botany), Nutrition
Hanninen, O.; And Others – Physiologist, 1981
Outlines the general revision of university studies which has occurred in Finland since the late 1960s. Physiology training in five universities is described, the future development of teaching in physiology and related subjects is discussed, and the contribution of physiology to postgraduate education and training is reviewed. (CS)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Science, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries