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Hietamäki, Sari; Tucci, Ilaria – Journal of Peace Education, 2022
This article discusses the challenges and opportunities of participatory online teaching and learning in higher education. It analyses an online peace education course taught during the COVID-19 pandemic in three Finnish universities between 2020-2021. The course explored fundamental mediation skills and practices of positive peace through…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Barriers
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Rissanen, Antti; Saastamoinen, Kalle – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2021
The National Defense University (NDU) trains officers to develop their academic and professional skills. To accomplish this, the university offers two mandatory courses on methodological training for military technology students for master level education. The first course was theoretically oriented, and the second course was practically oriented.…
Descriptors: Universities, Armed Forces, Military Personnel, Mathematics Skills
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Mustola, Marleena – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2019
The hierarchical human-centric paradigm has been criticized by various movements of posthuman philosophy because this paradigm forgets and dismisses nonhuman beings and entities: animals, nature, objects, and technology. When I developed a course called 'Education and Adaptations of Animal Studies' for university students in 2015, I learned two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Students, Animals, Ethics
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Eren, Ömer – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
Increase in diversified teaching contexts has led researchers to investigate the potentials of telecollaboration in multicultural learning environments. While there are abundant telecollaboration studies, improving intercultural awareness through a theoretical model is usually under-investigated. Based on Byram's (1997) co-orientational and…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Videoconferencing, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Pluralism
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Kumpulainen, Kaisu; Vierimaa, Sanna-Mari; Koskinen-Koivisto, Eerika – Education Sciences, 2019
The article examines the challenges university teachers face when adopting connective pedagogy in organizing teaching. Instead of studying the learning outcomes of the method, we decided in this research to focus on the teachers' experiences when doing things differently in a fairly traditional pedagogical institution like a university. In spring…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Tourism, Social Change, Diaries
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Airey, John; Lauridsen, Karen M.; Räsänen, Anne; Salö, Linus; Schwach, Vera – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Recently, in the wake of the Bologna Declaration and similar international initiatives, there has been a rapid increase in the number of university courses and programmes taught through the medium of English. Surveys have consistently shown the Nordic countries to be at the forefront of this trend towards English-medium instruction (EMI). In this…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Universities, Educational Policy
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Matuszak, Katarzyna; Szczuka-Dorna, Liliana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This activity report describes a sample unit (Effective Data Presentation) from a communication course prepared as part of an Intellectual Output within the BADGE Project, which was carried out by 12 partner universities from 10 countries during 3 academic years (2019-2022). The article first describes the results of a survey which show that…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Owen, David; Hudson, Brian; Tervola, Tarja – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2006
The paper presents an evaluation of student and tutor experiences in the introductory module of a European Masters programme in e-Learning, Multimedia and Consultancy. The aims and outline of the Masters programme are described, together with the pedagogical approach adopted in the introductory module which explores open and flexible learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Graduate Students, College Faculty