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Seeking Equity, Quality, and Purpose as Higher Education Transforms
Taking account of the dramatic shifts in the make-up and educational and social needs of today's college students, the authors explore how to steer future reforms in ways that will advance goals related to equity and educational...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Ever Upward
In a world where skilling, upskilling, reskilling, and career shifting are becoming the norm, and where lifelong learning is a requirement, models of higher education designed to best support the needs of learners and the...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Integrating Service-Learning Pedagogy Into Community College Coursework
Developmental students face significant academic and life challenges as they pursue a college degree. As students in developmental studies often struggle to complete their courses, research focused on innovative pedagogy that...
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Incremental Learning in a Capstone Project
Organizations are moving away from rigid planning to a more incremental style of planning and execution in projects. There is a growing acceptance of the effectiveness of incremental change, both in industry projects and in...
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Digital Badge Use in Specific Learner Groups
As educational technology continues to advance, new technologies continue to enter the scene that seek to enhance the delivery and reception of learning in both academic and industry settings. Digital badges are a recent...
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“The Fact That the Author Was Male Instead of Female Provided for an Objective Opinion”
This paper presents an audit-style experiential learning activity intended to gauge students' perceptions of objectivity based on author gender, encourage students to apply the concept of bias to their own learning, and...
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The Evolving Role of Community Colleges in Workforce Development
Community colleges play a crucial role in developing a skilled workforce through preparation. The questions that this chapter addresses are: How are community colleges ensuring that they are addressing current workforce and...
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Rolling With the Flow
COVID-19 created a paradigm shift in higher education (HE), speeding up a process that was already underway and forcing institutions and instructors to develop the competencies necessary to offer effective delivery and resources...
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Competency-Based Education
This chapter will review what competency-based education is and how delivering traditional educational credentials and degrees in a non-traditional, non-term program can better engage students and promote their success in the...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Enabling Lifelong Learning in California Community Colleges
Creating flexible pathways for students, especially those who are caregiving, balancing working and learning, and/or acquiring skills and knowledge outside of classrooms, requires coordinated state- and college-level actions....
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Practical Considerations on How to Document and Transcribe Multi-Modality Learning
Matthew Pittinsky
Jun 24, 2022
For the first time in its history, higher education is having to prove its value. Being able to communicate a learner's holistic set of experiences and competencies when they leave an institution is critical both now and in the...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Learning, Adults, and Competency-Based Education
Michelle Cleary, Kathryn Wozniak, Catherine Marienau, Gretchen Wilbur, Derise Tolliver, Pamela Meyer
Oct 04, 2016
Because competency-based education (CBE) programs ask students to demonstrate what they know and can do and because CBE students often work at their own pace, competence-based learners need to be able to articulate and to manage...
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Need We Train Online Instructors?
In an online setting, it is critical to understand the factors that influence learning outcomes and student satisfaction. Group work or collaborative learning is frequently prescribed as a vital part of online classes. Learning...
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A Review of Transnational Higher Education
John Branch
Jul 20, 2018
The internationalization of higher education is as old as the university itself. Recently, however, there has been a growing interest in transnational higher education, a specific form of internationalization that considers...
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“Solve the Big Problems”
Blended learning remains at the top of higher education/technology issues lists despite having been in practice on college and university campuses for 20 years. However, a review of blended learning research literature suggests...
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The Effect of Using Digital Stories in Teaching English as a Second Language
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of using digital storytelling on motivation and learning strategies in foreign language teaching. This study was conducted with 20 students enrolled in the preparatory class to...
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Utilizing Prior Learning Portfolios to Rebundle Formal and Informal Learning
In this chapter, the authors will explore credit for prior learning (CPL) by portfolio as a high-impact educational practice that can enable learners to weave together disparate learning in meaningful ways while also deepening...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Evaluation of Multi-Peer and Self-Assessment in Higher Education
This article presents an evaluation of the use of peer and self-assessment as part of the learning process in a public speaking assessment coursework, with students from two departments taking part. Students were assessed by...
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LGBT College Student Career Development
LGBT college students need mentorship regarding their career development from their faculty members. This paper provides an informed approach, grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory and supported by empirical research, for...
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Heterogeneous Inter-Organizational Social Capital in University-Industry Collaboration for Technology Transfer
The phenomenon of university-industry partnership (UIP) has become a valuable research endeavor. However, examining UIP-related literature shows limited understanding from a social capital (SC) perspective, albeit its relevance....
Education Higher Education Educational Leadership & Administration Business and Management Social Sciences and Humanities
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The Utilization of a Formalized Complaint Management System as a Communication Tool to Foster Student Success
The field of Higher Education is experiencing a revolution spurred on by the expanding frontier of technology. Leaders of higher education institutions seek to improve student communication processes which will positively impact...
Web-Based Teaching & Learning Education Higher Education Computer Science and Information Technology
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Pedagogical Innovation in Higher Education
Bernadette Knewstubb, Jae Major, Sandi Tait-McCutcheon, Robin Averill, Amanda Gilbert, Anita Mortlock, Liz Jones
Jul 01, 2020
Quality teaching in higher education (HE) is gaining increasing international attention and pedagogical innovation is seen as an important construct of quality teaching. The drivers for pedagogical innovation include the need...
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Charting a Future With Skills
Navigating life and charting a path towards educational goals and professional advancement is challenging in troubled water. When structures and trusted tools previously relied on begin to falter, chaos can beset those on the...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Alverno Accelerate
With 50 years of experience in outcome-based, assessment-driven education, Alverno faculty understand the value of student-centered learning as the cornerstone of curriculum design and pedagogical practice. On the scaffold of...
Higher Education Education Higher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
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Civic Value of National Service
Research from one large public university highlights that on average, of the 10,000 students who graduate, 650 students, or 8% of participating graduates, indicate ‘volunteering' or ‘taking time off' as their immediate next step...
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