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McNeil, Jane; Borg, Michaela – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
Although there is considerable interest in learning spaces in higher education, the relationship between spaces and learning is complex and not well-understood. Despite challenges, such as the lack of comparability between studies, we need to learn more about the interaction of space design and learning. A crucial step towards this is the creation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Correlation, Higher Education, Instructional Innovation
Ramaswami, Rama – Campus Technology, 2011
Just a few years ago, virtual worlds were credited with the power to transform the universe. Used since the late 1990s in military and medical applications, virtual worlds first gained mainstream media attention when Linden Lab released Second Life in 2003. While other worlds, including open source environments, have launched since then (examples…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Technical Support, Computer Uses in Education
Ponder, Anne – Trusteeship, 2009
The downturn in the economy of the author's state, North Carolina, so far is less severe than that of much of the rest of the nation, due to their diversified economy, financial discipline, constitutional mandate for a balanced budget, "rainy day" fund, and many years of consistent investment in higher education. In the University of…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, College Planning, Investment, Trustees
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Jones, Karen Kitchens – New Directions for Student Services, 2009
Isothermal Community College (ICC) is located in Spindale, North Carolina. The college serves approximately 2,000 curriculum students every fall and spring semester and about 1,000 curriculum students in summer semesters. The Student Affairs department at ICC is divided into 10 functional areas. Over the last several years, student affairs staff…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Community Colleges, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Communication Skills. – 1984
This handbook, which is designed to promote cooperation between classroom teachers and teacher aides, discusses the role of the aide, aides' understanding of children, communication and learning, the classroom environment, and evaluation of job performance. The section on the role of the teacher aide includes an organizational chart of the school…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Communication Skills, Elementary Education
Cook, Katherine M.; Windes, E. E. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
This report is the result of an investigation of the schools of Beaufort County, North Carolina, at the request of the county board of education, for the purpose of studying the possibilities for centralizing the schools of the county and of recommending a definite plan of procedure for school consolidation. No complete investigation of the…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Rural Education, Consolidated Schools, Counties