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Mak, Anita S.; Kennedy, Monica – Innovative Higher Education, 2012
The Internationalising the Student Experience Project was devised and piloted as a teaching innovation to improve the intercultural awareness of instructors and, subsequently, that of their domestic and international students. In this article we claim that instructor preparation in the use of the Alliance Building and Cultural Mapping tools of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Experiential Learning, Student Experience, Pilot Projects
Dotger, Benjamin H.; Dotger, Sharon C.; Maher, Michael J. – Innovative Higher Education, 2010
Medical education institutions frequently simulate interactions between future health professionals and standardized patients. This manuscript describes a partnership between a teacher preparation institution and a nearby medical institution, outlining specific procedures associated with the use of standardized parents, students, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Medical Education, Health Personnel, Patients
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Welds, Kathryn – Innovative Higher Education, 1986
Nontraditional learning environments challenge instructors to develop educational formats responsive to specific objectives and milieu. Competencies related to long-term goal achievement instead of short-term information retention are highlighted. An innovative instructional format presented during an international education semester aboard the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, College Instruction
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Hutchings, Patricia – Innovative Higher Education, 1996
As colleges and universities seek to raise attention to teaching, peer review offers distinct advantages, especially for faculty eager to reduce classroom isolation and collaborate in improvement. It also presents political and methodological challenges and presumes significantly different roles for faculty in improving quality of student…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Change
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Morehead, Jere W.; Shedd, Peter J. – Innovative Higher Education, 1996
One University of Georgia business administration department has experimented with having faculty interview a fellow faculty member's students for insights into enhancing the learning environment inside and outside the peer faculty's classroom. A description of the program looks at how the interviews were conducted, the value of the interactions…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty Evaluation
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Malik, David J. – Innovative Higher Education, 1996
An important component that models for peer review of faculty often exclude is course content. An approach incorporating course content evaluation by colleagues outside the institution, used at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, is described, and the structure and materials used are noted. The model, excerpted from the final…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Course Content, Course Evaluation
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Teeples, Ronald K.; Wichman, Harvey A. – Innovative Higher Education, 1997
The liberal arts program at Claremont McKenna College (California) departs from the traditional design by involving students and faculty in real-world projects, with outside clients, as class activities. Student teams complete projects in a context more like graduate education. Major successes and difficulties in integrating this approach into a…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Curriculum Design, Educational Methods
Teaching without Testing: A Preliminary Report of an Innovative Technique for Social Work Education.
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Thyer, Bruce A. – Innovative Higher Education, 1988
The systematic use of study questions to guide social work student learning is described as an alternative to relying upon traditional midterm or final examinations, or term papers. The study question technique has been found to generate greater and more consistent levels of study behavior, writing, and class participation. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Professional Education
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Figgins, Margo A.; Burbach, Harold J. – Innovative Higher Education, 1989
A graduate seminar on writing for publication at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education is described. The assumptions guiding the course are followed by an elaboration of its key structuring components. Five lessons essential to the replication of a similar workshop are described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Course Descriptions, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Innovation
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Tanner, Mark W.; And Others – Innovative Higher Education, 1993
To prepare new international graduate students for assignments as teaching assistants, the University of Washington chemistry department worked with specialists in language, pedagogy, and chemistry to design a discipline-specific training program. The program's structure, participants, benefits and limitations, and effectiveness in its first year…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Instruction, College Science, Foreign Students