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Huynh, Tra; Madsen, Adrian; McKagan, Sarah; Sayre, Eleanor – Information and Learning Sciences, 2021
Purpose: Personas are lifelike characters that are driven by potential or real users' personal goals and experiences when interacting with a product. Personas support user-centered design by focusing on real users' needs. However, the use of personas in educational research and design requires certain adjustments from its original use in…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Instructional Design, Classification, Faculty Development
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Priest, Kerry L.; Kliewer, Brandon W.; Stephens, Clinton M. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2018
Bringing together leadership educators from 11 programs in Kansas, the Leadership Studies Summit fostered new initiatives and strengthened collegial networks. The summit responded to local and national expressed needs for intensive dialogue focusing on collaboration and capacity building among leadership educators for advancing the common good.…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Conferences (Gatherings), Collegiality, Capacity Building
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Thurston, Linda P.; Yelich Biniecki, Susan M. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2017
A strengths assessment of the College of Education at Kansas State University in the United States showed that a majority of faculty had strong interests in social justice issues in education. The need for providing continuing post-graduate education in social justice education with theory-to-practice relevancy is critical in formal and informal…
Descriptors: Program Design, Curriculum Design, Graduate Study, Student Certification
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Tolar, Mary Hale; Gott, Trisha – Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education, 2012
The DEAL model of critical reflection (Ash & Clayton, 2009a) was explicitly designed to help improve the quality of learning and practice in applied learning. Heretofore, the DEAL model has been used at the level of the individual student or faculty member as learner. To improve understanding and implementation of critical reflection in a…
Descriptors: Reflection, Models, Experiential Learning, Service Learning
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Brooks, Colleen; Fernandez, Edmee – Learning Languages, 2001
Describes a successful program that introduced Japanese language and culture to children in Kansas. End of program survey results revealed that students, parents, and facilitators were overwhelmingly positive about the program. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Distance Education, Elementary Education, FLES, Japanese
Reddick, Thomas – Computers in Libraries, 2004
The Northeast Kansas Library System's filtering project started out as a response to the passage of CIPA, the Children's Internet Protection Act, in January 2001. Originally called "onGuard," it was a service that the Northeast Kansas Library System created for its members. When the Supreme Court ruling did uphold the constitutionality…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Networks, Internet, Censorship
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Meyen, Edward L.; Yang, Chien Hui – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2003
This study on barriers to online staff development for classroom teachers was conducted as part of the planning activities of a delivery models project designed to develop guidelines for implementing large-scale online staff development programs. The study involved engaging 54 general and special educators in several professional roles from nine…
Descriptors: Barriers, Program Implementation, Online Courses, Electronic Learning