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Direct linkTracey Jean Beckley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Teaching and learning centers in higher education are often charged with providing faculty development programming in support of overarching institutional goals related to effective teaching and assessment of student learning. Using the theoretical frameworks of Maki and Weiner as a launch pad, this exploratory case study examines how two teaching…
Descriptors: Curriculum Study Centers, Higher Education, Faculty Development, College Faculty
Peer reviewedJoan Giblin; JoJo Jacobson – Learning Assistance Review, 2024
Learning centers and tutoring programs serve a unique function as they are situated between academic and student affairs. Despite their importance, little research has focused on the key knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies required for success as learning center directors. This qualitative study addressed this gap by exploring critical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Study Centers, Tutor Training, Administrators
Download full textAttebury, Ramirose; Kroth, Michael – Education Libraries, 2012
The development of education libraries cannot be understood outside the context of education history. Changes in educational practices and technology spurred three phases of development in the history of education libraries. Early examples, often called curriculum laboratories, developed as spaces to create educational materials where limited…
Descriptors: Libraries, Instructional Materials, Library Services, Educational Change
Pierard, Cindy; Lee, Norice – Journal of Access Services, 2011
How can libraries best assess and improve user space, even if they are not in a position to undertake new construction or a major renovation? Staff at New Mexico State University used a variety of ethnographic methods to learn how our spaces were being used as well as what our users considered to be ideal library space. Our findings helped us make…
Descriptors: Use Studies, Ethnography, Study Facilities, Libraries
Ambe-Uva, Terhemba Nom – Online Submission, 2006
The paper represents a study of students' experience of interactivity in distance education programmes at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Through surveys and focus groups with students, facilitators, and administrative support staff, we found out that interactivity is a key determinant of student success rate. Majority of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Study Centers, Open Universities
Williams, Ruth; Yarrow, Karen – Learning and Skills Development Agency (NJ1), 2006
Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) deliver specialist vocational provision with a focus on increasing learner numbers at Level 3. They aim to produce skilled and appropriately qualified workers to meet the needs of the economy by enhancing the skills and careers of those already in work, the employability of new entrants to the labor …
Descriptors: Industry, Program Effectiveness, Study Centers, Vocational Education
