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Parks, Elinor – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2020
The paper reports on the findings of a PhD study exploring the implications of the separation between language and content in Modern Languages for students' development of intercultural competence and criticality across four universities -- two in the US and two in the UK. In particular, it exposes the diverse views students developed on the…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Degrees
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Allen, Janine F. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Professional development offered to higher education faculty is meant to enhance pedagogy and improve practice. Inspired by a transnational partnership in Southeast Asia, this study aimed to discover how teacher education faculty perceived faculty development offered to them by university partnership colleagues from the United States. Survey…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
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Xia, Jingfeng – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2013
This article examines web comments written by Chinese learners on online open courses that are originally produced by leading universities in the United States and United Kingdom and are later introduced to China with Chinese translation. It applies the thematic discourse analysis strategy to classify the comments into themes to explore the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Open Universities
Tran, Tan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Web-based learning progresses as access to the Internet grows. As learners and educators in virtual learning communities, we strive for ways to measure how well teachers teach and learners learn. While the literature is replete with articles and books discussing online learning from the perspective of social and teaching presence, there are few…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Courses, Course Content
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Schmidt, William H.; Cogan, Leland S.; Houang, Richard T.; McKnight, Curtis C. – American Journal of Education, 2011
This article utilizes the 1999 TIMSS-R data from U.S. states and districts to explore the consequences of variation in opportunities to learn specific mathematics content. Analyses explore the relationship between classroom mathematics content coverage and student achievement as measured by the TIMSS-R international mathematics scaled score.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Course Content, Correlation
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Laster, Nicole M.; Russ, Travis L. – Business Communication Quarterly, 2010
This study elucidates pedagogical differences and similarities between the ways in which instructors from business and communication disciplines teach the introductory business communication course. During the spring of 2008, the authors surveyed 444 instructors teaching this course at colleges and universities across the United States. Their…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Introductory Courses