This article reviews the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on key elements of transnational higher education (TNHE) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The challenges faced by mentors and mentees across the pre-, mid-, and post-pandemic periods in relation to teaching methods, learning outcomes, assessments, and…

This study attempts to explore changes in teaching conceptions after a transnational project to introduce new pedagogical methods in Indonesia. The project involved a consortium of European universities as mentors and Indonesian universities as mentees, piloting methods based on a student-centred learning approach. We analysed vignettes from the…

The aim of this research study around the co-construction and sharing of authentic and meaningful artefacts within the 'Youth Entrepreneurship for Society' virtual exchange was to find out how the implementation of artefact-based telecollaborative tasks fosters 21st competences and social entrepreneurship in English for Specific Purposes settings.…

The purpose of this study was to examine the teacher-to-teacher mentoring experience of new teachers in a designated mentoring program through questionnaires, interviews, and an examination of archived teacher evaluations and administrator's notes. The results show that teacher-to-teacher mentoring at the research site does assist new teachers in…

Undertaking a Virtual Exchange (VE) project for the first time is supported by introductory online training and mentoring offered through the European Commission's Erasmus+ programme, and can be a source of teacher Professional Development (PD). This study based on Exploratory Practice (EP) describes aspects of the planning and implementation of…

This paper offers insight from an informal cross-cultural mentoring experience of course development in higher education framed by the UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning project. The Open Education for a Better World is a tuition-free international online mentoring program established to unlock the…

In this article, we describe efforts to reduce barriers of entry to pre-college engineering in a rural community by training local teens to become maker-mentors and staff a mobile makerspace in their community. We bring a communities of practice frame to our inquiry, focusing on inbound and peripheral learning and identity trajectories as a…

This study examined the implementation of seven co-teaching strategies as self-reported by experienced middle and secondary mentor teachers in a large suburban school district. Seven case studies, three middle school and four high school mentor teachers, were analyzed. Findings reveal that mentor teachers supported the use of co-teaching in…

With the recent emphasis on clinical models of teacher education, research is needed to improve understanding of how teacher candidates learn from clinical practice. The purpose of this study is to explore the types of learning spaces generated during mentoring discussions focused on analysis of video-recorded practice. Participants consist of the…

Any single artifact in a museum possesses the potential to serve as a starting point for the viewer to interpret its meaning, develop an idea, and then generate a written piece. In this article, the authors describe steps for using a photography exhibit collection as artifactual inquiry.

A central component of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is curriculum co-development between U.S. and Canadian academics from the African Diaspora and host collaborators at African higher education institutions. The CADFP aims to build the capacity of African higher education institutions by increasing and enhancing…

This phenomenological study explored best practices to increase preservice teacher self-efficacy before the student teaching semester. The research was guided by this central inquiry and three sub-questions. Using a pre- and post-phenomenon survey instrument as well as an initial questionnaire and a final reflection, preservice teachers who were…

Researchers have noted that some primary grade teachers do not have the cultural competence to meet transcultural learning goals for primary grade students in diverse schools. This qualitative study explored perspectives of kindergarten through second grade teachers on their cultural competence to meet transcultural learning goals for…

Turino's ([2008]. "Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation." Chicago: University of Chicago Press.) distinctions between live and recorded fields can act as an effective framework for furthering academic understandings of how music teaching and learning has been impacted by the shift to online musical practice due to COVID-19…

A university-school district partnership program designed to increase recruitment and retention of science and mathematics teachers in schools identified as low performing by the school district, paired potential or novice teachers with veteran teachers in elementary or secondary schools. All participants received mentoring to build instructional…