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Varga-Atkins, Tünde – Research in Learning Technology, 2016
Recent years have seen a focus on responding to student expectations in higher education. As a result, a number of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) policies have stipulated a requirement for a minimum virtual learning environment (VLE) standard to provide a consistent student experience. This paper offers insight into an under-researched area of…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Expectation, College Students, Educational Technology
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Riley, Kathryn A. – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
School leaders in highly disadvantaged urban communities across the globe walk a tightrope, caught between the needs of communities and the requirements of national policies. This article aims to enrich our understanding of the potential of school-community relationships. It examines the policy discourse on urban schools and the practice of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Schools, Disadvantaged Environment, Urban Areas
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Tarleton, Beth – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
This paper considers the impact of research and development work around parenting by adults with a learning difficulty undertaken at the Norah Fry Research Centre (NFRC) since 2005. It discusses how our understanding of the support needs of parents with learning difficulties grew through an initial mapping study which led to the concept of…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Adults, Parents with Disabilities, Needs Assessment
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Orsmond, Paul; Zvauya, R. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
This study considers social learning practices within and outside the overt curriculum. A thematic approach was used to analyse data from six focus group interviews with 11 graduate entry medical students from a UK university over a year of study. The results indicate that: (1) during their first year of study students form a community of learning…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Medical Students, Graduate Students, Focus Groups
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Dennis, Carol Azumah – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
In this study, I explore "blogging", the use of a regularly updated website or web page, authored and curated by an individual or small group, written in a conversational style, as a form of public pedagogy. I analyse blogs as pre-figurative spaces where people go to learn with/in a public sphere, through collaboration with interested…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Diaries, Adult Educators
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Bourner, Tom; Rospigliosi, Asher; Heath, Linda – Higher Education Review, 2017
This is the concluding article of a series of four articles, which started by introducing the concept of the "fully-functioning university" in 2008. Subsequent articles have looked at the consequences of this concept for the higher education of students and the advancement of knowledge. This article is about the fully-functioning…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Institutional Characteristics
Keenan, Chris – Higher Education Academy, 2014
Peer-led academic learning has increased in importance, but there is little sense of how many institutions support it, how they understand its purposes or what peer-led learning best practice is. This report examines the provision of peer-led learning in the UK. It identifies challenges and opportunities, including international perspectives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Best Practices, Educational Benefits
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Johnson, Martin – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2014
This project uses the community of practice metaphor to explore some of the discursive characteristics of learning that take place when a group of United Kingdom-based professional examiners engage in joint-work activity in both face-to-face and remote computer-mediated communication contexts. Professional examiners are all subject experts, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Examiners, Expertise
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Gerrard, Jessica – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2014
The notion of "competitive excellence" is an enduring cornerstone of UK educational policy. Most recently, expanding and adapting New Labour's Academy project with the introduction of free schools, the Coalition's approach advances and embeds competitive market-based forms of community engagement in education. Responding to this policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Community Education, Free Schools
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van Winkelen, Christine – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the use of developmental evaluation methods with community of practice programmes experiencing change or transition to better understand how to target support resources. Design/methodology/approach: The practical use of a number of developmental evaluation methods was explored in three organizations over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Communities of Practice, Educational Change
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McNair, Louisa; Woodrow, Ceri; Hare, Dougal – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
Background: Government strategy indicates that individuals with learning disabilities should have access to adapted psychological therapies. Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is recommended for the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD); however, there is little published research regarding whether it can be appropriately adapted for…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Case Studies, Behavior Modification, Attitude Change
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Wisker, Gina; Robinson, Gillian; Bengtsen, Søren S. E. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Much international doctoral learning research focuses on personal, institutional and learning support provided by supervisors, managed relationships,"nudging" robust, conceptual, critical, creative work. Other work focuses on stresses experienced in supervisor-student relationships and doctoral journeys. Some considers formal and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Supervisors
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Koshy, Valsa; Smith, Carole Portman; Brown, Joanna – Gifted Education International, 2017
International evidence demonstrates the importance of engaging parents in the education of their "high-potential" children, yet limited research has focused on the involvement of parents from differing economic strata/backgrounds. The current study explored the dilemmas of parenting academically high-ability children from economically…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Child Rearing, Parent Attitudes, Urban Areas
Learning and Work Institute, 2017
Since 2015, as part of our work for the European Agenda for Adult Learning, L&W and its partners across the UK have been researching and discussing the impact of adult learning. We have done this through the Impact Forums established in 2014 which meet in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales every quarter. For these meetings we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Outcomes of Education
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Joesbury, Mark – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2015
The mission of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) is to safeguard the public interest in sound standards of higher education qualifications and to inform and encourage continual improvement in the management of the quality of higher education. As part of this mission, QAA undertakes reviews of higher education provision…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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