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MacDonald, Patrick; Ahern, Terence C. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2015
Technology offers new and innovative ways to deliver learning such as the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The MOOC offers institutes of higher education a potential delivery method for delivering online learning. This study utilized a qualitative method to gather and analyze an active observer's experience within a MOOC. The results aligned…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Open Education
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de Bellaigue, Christina – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
This article examines the work of educationist Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) to explore the practice of home education in the late nineteenth century. Mason's work reflected and responded to the particular circumstances and concerns of her clientele. She provided a way for parents to compensate for the practical deficiencies of contemporary…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Unions, Parent Influence, Educational Practices
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Carroll, Heather; Chandrashekhar, Shwetha; Huang, Danny; Kim, David; Liu, Peter – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
In light of the enormous changes unfolding in the higher education landscape, we don't have to look too far to recognize evidence of the transformation and redefinition of the construct of both teaching and learning in the information age. With a growing focus on teaching and learning at all levels of post-secondary institutions, innovation is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Educational Change, Technology Uses in Education
Public Impact, 2015
For excellent teachers and those aspiring to excellence, and for administrative or education policy leaders, this brief provides an overview of how an Opportunity Culture can help teachers have the well-paid, empowered profession they deserve--while helping many more students succeed. [For the full report, see ED560179; for the summary, see…
Descriptors: Opportunities, Teacher Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Methods
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Izadpanah, Shirin; Günçe, Kaðan – South African Journal of Education, 2014
Quality design and appropriate space organization in preschool settings can support preschool children's educational activities. Although the relationship between the well-being and development of children and physical settings has been emphasized by many early childhood researchers, there is still a need for theoretical design guidelines that are…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Preschool Education, Educational Methods, Design Preferences
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Ellis, Jason A. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2014
This article is about the deaf education methods debate in the public schools of Toronto, Canada. The author demonstrates how pure oralism (lip-reading and speech instruction to the complete exclusion of sign language) and day school classes for deaf schoolchildren were introduced as a progressive school reform in 1922. Plans for further oralist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Progressive Education, Educational Change
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Roe, Katie; McConney, Andrew; Mansfield, Caroline F. – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2014
Modern zoos utilise a variety of education tools for communicating with visitors. Previous research has discussed the benefits of providing multiple education communications, yet little research provides an indication of what communications are being employed within zoos today. This research is a two-phased, mixed-methods investigation into the…
Descriptors: Recreational Facilities, Communication Strategies, Animals, Online Surveys
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Bernstein, Debra; Puttick, Gillian – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2014
Three studies examined whether a social norm message (SNM) to Girl Scouts who had completed an energy conservation program would impact behavior and attitudes. Studies 1 and 2 were conducted with girls recently completing the program, study 3 was conducted with girls completing the program one year earlier. Results suggest that the SNM may impact…
Descriptors: Females, Youth Programs, Energy Conservation, Social Attitudes
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Culp, Ken, III – Journal of Extension, 2012
To organize and coordinate the efforts of many volunteers, a framework for volunteer engagement is needed. The "GEMS" Model of volunteer administration was developed to assist Extension professionals and volunteer coordinators to effectively administer volunteer programs without delivering the program themselves. The GEMS Model is…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Extension Education, Extension Agents, Delivery Systems
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Lee, Seon-Young – High Ability Studies, 2012
As an alternative to the current paradigm of gifted education, Ziegler and Phillipson proposed a systemic approach and argued that factors in the current mechanistic model of giftedness are not good predictors for exceptionality. They pinpointed that a single factor identified as an indicator of giftedness, ineffective measures, inappropriate…
Descriptors: Gifted, Educational Practices, Reader Response, Systems Approach
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Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael – Education Economics, 2016
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e. unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Labor Market
Alghamdi, Abdulmonem – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of cooperative learning instruction, specifically by using the Jigsaw instructional strategy on science achievement and attitudes towards science among 11th grade students. Based upon previous research literature, it was hypothesized that significant differences existed on gains between general…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Foreign Countries, Males, High School Students
Ahmed, Zahid Shahab – United States Institute of Peace, 2017
With an eye to the theory that radicalization is a function of social and political marginalization more than of economic poverty, this report examines a cross-section of peace education initiatives in Pakistan. It relies on data collected through interviews with program teachers and students when possible. Funded by the United States Institute of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Peace, Educational Methods
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Lehner, Daniela; Wurzenberger, Julia – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of Global Education (GE) from a "theory of action plan" and an "evolutionary and systems theory" approach as an educational perspective to cope with globalisation--more specifically, the challenges of globalisation. Moreover, an additional aim is to analyse the…
Descriptors: Global Education, Educational Attitudes, Global Approach, Systems Approach
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Gil, Leoncio Vega – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2013
Our paper has as its first aim to highlight the fact that the approach on which studies about educational policies or the politics of education (the second concept being more widely used in social sciences) have been based so far involves returning to the stance posited by J.A. Maravall--a category composed of ideas, foundations, mind-set,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Administration
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