This virtual conference was the tenth in a series of moderated discussions on the UNEVOC e-Forum--a global online community of over 4000 members. Guided by an expert in the field, these discussions provide a platform for sharing of experiences, expertise and feedback and wish to inspire people to take further action. Between 29 September and 10…

In massive online communities of creators (OCOCs), one of the core challenges is to encourage users to learn to create original contents using basic components. Recommending the right learning components at the right time is critical for improving user engagement and has not been fully studied due to the unstructured nature of online communities.…

This issue of ETS Policy Notes provides highlights from the second in a planned series of conferences jointly convened by the National Urban League (NUL) and Educational Testing Service (ETS) to foster collaboration among, and further the mission of, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). On October 24-25, 2018, 65 presidents and…

This study discusses the automatic coding methods of the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework for multilingual contexts, in particular. In universities, foreign students cannot be overlooked, and learning systems are also required to work in multilingual situations. However, none of the existing work has addressed the lack of language-agnostic and…

This paper presents a 7-step model of planning and implementation of professional learning around disciplinary literacy. This model grew from a 5 year implementation of a disciplinary literacy initiative at a large high school, and the school used teacher leadership and collaborative teams to support instructional improvement in literacy across…

With the current surge of developing highly effective teachers, the scrutiny of teacher preparation programs is at the forefront of national teacher education conversations. In this content analysis, the researchers examined the teacher preparation programs of 10 schools in the Universities of Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area consortium using a…

This study focuses on welfare state, social justice and school social work interaction. In this paper, these three concepts' reflections in Turkey were mentioned. Researchers aimed to discuss how school social work (which is brought to the agenda recently) is important in the provision of social justice in Turkish public service delivery. [For the…

Many school districts are increasingly offering their students options that break the geographic link between residential location and school attendance. This study considers the consequences of non-local school attendance on neighborhood perception. Specifically, do parents of children who attend schools within their neighborhood feel more…

Studies of professional learning in collaborative settings emphasize the importance of facilitators. However, there is sparse literature analyzing this role and its functions for learning in communal contexts particularly among teacher-educators. This study examines characteristics of the facilitator-teacher educator interaction and its functions…

Through the presentation of literature on Latin@ education, I will examine how community has historically been constructed and present within Latin@ education as a space for resistance beginning in the latter 1400s and moving forward up until the 1970s. This narrative is not intended to be exhaustive, rather, presented is a conceptual piece that…

This manuscript presents a conceptual heuristic to describe the development of a shared understanding of both collaboration and ambitious mathematics instruction within the context of a school-based improvement initiative. Based on empirical evidence from a two-year study in four elementary schools, we argue that the school community first learned…

Multimodal learning refers to teaching strategies that involve multiple sensory systems simultaneously. Teachers can create materials for students with different learning styles (auditory, visual, kinesthetic reading, and writing). Multimodal learning keeps students engaged, encourages them to apply what they learn in real-life situations,…

Purpose: Current education system is transforming from e-learning to m-learning. The benefit of m-learning is particularly important when it comes to motivating one to self-direct his/her learnings online. Though past research has assessed what role social capital theory plays on knowledge sharing quality, in virtual environment, scant research…

The goal of the paper is to provide guidelines for building a comprehensive model that fosters humanitarian engineering education. The paper brings the voice of field practitioners and students, in addition to academic research, to determine the most critical attitudes, skills, and capacity building practice for empowering humanitarian engineers.…

In this testimony by Alexander Mayer, Deputy Director, Postsecondary Education, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), Before the New Jersey State Assembly Higher Education Committee, the following three points are emphasized: (1) Developmental education is a major challenge facing low-income college students in New Jersey and across…