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Elizabeth A. Jach; Teniell L. Trolian; Benjamin S. Selznick – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
The authors posit that sustained, broad adoption of applied learning is essential to the continued viability of higher education. They define applied learning, delineate research-proven benefits, and illustrate applied learning in practice. In addition, they consider facets to catalyze movement toward leveraging applied learning: leadership for…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Definitions, Educational Practices
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Paul Dean; Franchesca V. Nestor – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2024
This study evaluates student and faculty experiences with an anti-racism unit added to a first-year seminar. Student attitudes about race shifted little, but gains were reported in more racially diverse classrooms and in factual information on racial inequality. A majority of students reported favorable reactions to an antiracism reading, with the…
Descriptors: Racism, Student Attitudes, Racial Attitudes, Attitude Change
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Susan F. Stevenson; Kay Fielden; Maya Gurung; Kristyl Zagala – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
This article traces the journey and outcomes of research undertaken by evaluating theoretical wellbeing models and practice research. The findings have culminated in the new Universal Wellbeing Model (UWM). Emerging from this UWM are innovative ways to support and inform higher and wellbeing education and social learning in praxis. The innovations…
Descriptors: Well Being, Models, Praxis, Change
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D. William Kay; Debbie Sheppard-LeMoine – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
This case study explores leadership emergence within a faculty-based community of practice engaged in a scholarly interprofessional education initiative between nursing, medical, and clinical simulation educators within a transnational higher education context in the Middle East. Findings in this qualitative study revealed rich insights into the…
Descriptors: Interprofessional Relationship, Communities of Practice, Participative Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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Didi M. E. Griffioen; Maaike van Heijningen – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
This literature review applies Wenger's community of practice framework as a theoretical lens to generate insight about the complex collaborative processes of living labs. The authors explore this model with insights from the literature on labs and then set out to understand higher educational living labs. The findings show that current research…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Living Learning Centers, Personal Autonomy
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Jamie Shaffer – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
This article examines the formation and impact of a supportive networking community of practice (CoP) for women faculty and staff at a university in the southeastern U.S. Barriers to success for women in higher education, both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, are discussed. The framework of systems convening and the ways in which the CoP…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers, Females
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Kum Khuan Tang; Gek Ling Lee; Derek Wong – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
The practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has been known to be troublesome to teachers. (Webb & Tierney, 2020). The authors argue that a mentoring approach based on threshold concepts in SoTL has the potential to lead to more confident conceptual border crossing by new entrants to the SoTL of English communication. A…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Mentors, Professional Development, Expertise
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Harkins Monaco, Elizabeth A. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2020
Introductory college courses are designed to comprehensively introduce divergent disciplines (Zipp, 2012) and can prepare students to understand the risks for multiple minoritized identities in their fields of study (Shriberg, 2016). This approach is effective, however, only if faculty are appropriately equipped to use intersectional pedagogy.…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Higher Education, College Faculty, Social Discrimination
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Yen, Nguyen Thi Linh; Cuong, Ton Quang; Chung, Pham Kim – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2020
Transforming learner knowledge acquisition, application, and creation in digital learning may be supported by the implementation of blended learning and flipped classroom/learning, approaches that are now becoming a phenomenon in higher education practice in Vietnam. In practice, educators have approached flipped classrooms through various…
Descriptors: Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Technological Literacy
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Heinsch, Patrick; Handke, Jürgen – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2020
Humanoid robots are gradually becoming part of everyday life as well as education. Virtual agents have demonstrated their benefits for years, and experts expect similar positive effects from the use of humanoid robots in education. Project H.E.A.R.T. (Humanoid Emotional Assistant Robots in Teaching), from Philipps-University Marburg, has developed…
Descriptors: Robotics, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Universities
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Snyder, Stephen J.; Edwards, Laura C.; Sanders, Andrea L. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2019
An adaptation of Halpern's (1998) model of critical thinking (CT) was implemented for seven semesters of data collection involving 904 students in 44 classes. A pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was utilized for evaluating student growth in CT. The model comprised the development of higher education students' CT skills and dispositions by…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, College Students, Teaching Methods
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Fong, Jack – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2017
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have made a dramatic entry into higher education. Promising to provide an affordable, if not free, education, MOOCs are celebrated for promoting learning in lieu of the physical classroom. This exploratory study employs content analysis to make visible how MOOCs are viewed by academically oriented observers.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, Content Analysis, News Reporting
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Pérez, David, II.; Ashlee, Kyle C.; Do, Virginia H.; Karikari, Shamika N.; Sim, Colby – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2017
Fostering student success in higher education requires a paradigm shift. Instead of "fixing" students, efforts must center on preparing college educators. In this study, journal entries from a graduate-level course were used to explore how exposing Graduate Student Affairs Educators to anti-deficit perspectives on student success…
Descriptors: Success, Higher Education, Reflection, Graduate Students
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Cruz, Laura; Rosemond, LaNise – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2017
This article provides a review of the literature on coaching in higher education and how the practice connects with the past, present, and future of the field of educational development. As the field shifts its focus from individual faculty to organizational change, the authors highlight the potential of coaching to play an integrative role in…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Educational Development, Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Johnson, W. Brad; Robison, Susan – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2017
There are many kinds of helping relationships--coaching, mentoring, psychotherapy, and others. In this interview with W. Brad Johnson, Susan Robison explores how some of his insights about mentoring can be applicable to other types of helping relationships, like coaching. Mentoring is viewed as a broader relationship, but does include many of the…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Mentors, Coaching (Performance), Higher Education
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