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Wollert, David – American Biology Teacher, 2020
CRISPR (also known as CRISPR-Cas9) is a powerful biotechnology tool that gives scientists unprecedented access to the genetic makeup of all living organisms, including humans. It originally evolved as an adaptive immune system in bacteria to defend against viruses. When artificially harnessed in the laboratory it allows scientists to accurately…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Genetics, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Science Instruction
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Mackey, Thomas P. – Communications in Information Literacy, 2020
Metaliteracy is examined as a comprehensive framework to develop learners as informed consumers and active producers of information in collaborative communities of trust. In today's post-truth society, personal and political beliefs have often diminished the meaning and impact of truth and objective reasoning. Metaliteracy prepares reflective…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Trust (Psychology), Information Literacy, Ethics
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Siani, Merav; Yarden, Anat – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
The conflict between acceptance and disapproval of evolution has led to obstacles in its teaching and learning. Other difficulties, such as both teachers' and students' alternative perceptions, student maturity in the face of learning this complicated topic, and teachers' gaps in evolution knowledge, add to the difficulties in teaching and…
Descriptors: Evolution, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Foreign Countries, Barriers
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Chang, Hui-Tzu; Lin, Chia-Yu; Wang, Li-Chun; Tseng, Fang-Ching – Educational Technology & Society, 2022
In this study, we built a personalized hybrid course recommendation system (PHCRS) that considers students' interests, abilities and career development. To meet students' individual needs, we adopted the five most widely used algorithms, including content-based filtering, popularity-based methods, item-based collaborative filtering, user-based…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), Blended Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics
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Viebig, Christoph – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: Current research lacks a clear definition of blended learning in entrepreneurship education (EE), a comprehensive overview of the recent research, and a conceptualization of different types of blends with their respective challenges and advantages. In response to that, the author systematically reviewed the literature on blended learning…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Blended Learning, Educational Strategies, Educational Technology
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Brillinger, Matthew; Soroko, Agata – Social Education, 2022
This article explores the extent to which official social studies curriculum documents acknowledge difficult questions raised by the persistence of poverty in the United States. As it turns out, just as some parts of social studies curricula tell distorted stories about U.S. history, other parts tell misleading stories about the nation's present…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Course Content, Poverty, United States History
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Hervas, Gabriel; Medina, José Luis – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2022
Purpose: "Content Representations" (CoRes) is an instrument that links content with aspects about its teaching and is recognized for its utility designing lessons and elucidating teachers' knowledge. Lesson study (LS) is a practice through which teachers collaborate to plan, teach and reflect on a lesson. Both have been acknowledged…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
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Jitpaisarnwattana, Napat; Darasawang, Pornapit; Reinders, Hayo – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
In the last decade, Language MOOCs have attracted a lot of interest for their potential to enhance language learning. However, how learners engage with MOOC environments and realise their benefits, remains unclear. The current study adopts activity theory (Engeström in J Educ Work 14:133-156, 2001) as a lens to comprehend the affordances and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Online Courses, Affordances, Cooperative Learning
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Morgan, Hani – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2022
Critical race theory has recently been blamed for causing harmful outcomes. Conservative activists are believed to be distorting this theory in order to ban it. The campaign to ban critical race theory has affected many schools across the United States. In some cases, school personnel have resigned because of the way some groups have responded to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Activism, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bennoun, Steve – PRIMUS, 2022
Cornell University has long offered a Calculus for Life Sciences course. In this case study, we report on how a team of pure mathematicians has modernized both the content and teaching methods of this course. The content went from a standard calculus course with few genuine applications in the life sciences to a course focusing on dynamical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, Biological Sciences, Interdisciplinary Approach
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MacDonald, Liana; Kidman, Joanna – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
In 2022, New Zealand history will shift from an optional to a compulsory subject across all levels of schooling. Teaching about New Zealand's difficult histories has the potential to reconstitute settler-Indigenous relations to show how historical colonial injustice impacts people today, but it raises questions about whose history will be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Indigenous Populations
Ho, Tai Yee Janet – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative interview study examines challenges college students may experience in extracurricular dialogues on contested sociopolitical issues. It also discusses approaches that students claim support them through the challenges of contested issues dialogues. This study found that college students encountered challenges including difficulty…
Descriptors: College Students, Dialogs (Language), Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Problems
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Healy, Karl V.; Weise, Solveig; Fink, Astrid; Frese, Thomas; Richter, Matthias; Knöchelmann, Anja – American Journal of Health Education, 2022
Background: Diabetes self-management education (DSME) improves disease-specific markers (HbA1c levels and bodyweight) and prevents disease-related complications. Yet, patients do not seem to benefit equally from such education, likely because of differences in approaches to learning. Purpose: We investigated which learning approaches are best…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Self Management, Training, Foreign Countries
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Geller, Rebecca C.; Gravell, Jamie D.; Richardson, Amy; Strang, Stacy Ann – Social Education, 2022
In recent years, social studies teachers have described feeling startled and unprepared to navigate politically fraught conversations in the classroom alongside the vitriolic political bullying they also reported. Just as young people need space to practice civic skills, so too do teachers need space to practice pedagogical skills. This article…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Political Attitudes, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Computer Simulation
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Headrick, Jason; McElravy, L. J. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2022
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a form of distance education courses. They have been celebrated as revolutionizing the way learners access education and the way colleges and universities could expand education on a global scale beyond their traditional campuses. The purpose of this study is to identify the pedagogical strategies used for…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Leadership Training
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