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21st Century, Trans-Disciplinary Curriculum in the Arab World
Saudelli, Mary Gene - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
This is an ethnnographic case study of curriculum design and implementation at Dubai Women’s College (DWC) by a team of … light on the complex interplay of global, local, social, cultural, and religious factors affecting curriculum design and … of contemporary educational curricular theories such as constructivist learning theory, transformative curriculum theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276138
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Fostering Creativity, Collaboration, and Accountability in the Online Classroom
Kutaka-Kennedy, Joy - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Online learning is expanding at an exponential rate, with more than one third of all higher education students taking at least one course online (Allen & Seaman, 2011). However, dropout rates for online courses are 10-20% higher than for traditional, face-to-face courses (Carr, 2000). Many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210050
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Class Size: Teaching Quality and Students’ level of Satisfaction with their Academic Performance
Hyseni-Duraku, Zamira - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
The main goal of this study is to verify if a greater number of students within a University department is an influential factor on the quality of instructors’ teaching and evaluating. One of the key analytic theses of this study, is to prove whether there is difference between the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210112
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Implementing Rabbani Concept in Education: Reality and Fantacy
Ismail, Nawi@Mohd. Nawi; Hussin, Azizah - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
The word of “Philosophy” came from Greece which means “love of wisdom”. Philosophy is the master of the knowledge. Generally it is divided into islamic and non-islamic philosophy. The islamic philosophy is the best practice in human life because it covers all aspects of life. Deep...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210150
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Students' emotional bargaining in higher education: a case study of staff views
Bartram, Brendan - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
In a bid to investigate what would appear to be a relatively under-explored aspect of staff-student interactions, this paper offers a critical examination of the ways in which emotion is sometimes utilised as a resource by students in Higher Education (HE). It begins by reviewing a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210247
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Creativity and Collaboration in the Online Classroom
Kutaka-Kennedy, Joy - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Online and collaborative learning have been identified as driving trends in higher education today (Johnson, Adams, Becker, Estrada, & Freeman, 2014). Over 6.7 million students have taken at least one online class, more than 32% of all higher education students (Allen & Seaman, 2011). However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210351
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The Importance of Data Literacy in Leadership Education: Factors Related to Data Use in Instructional Leadership
Lou, Mingchu (Neal); Albrecht, Nancy; Neill, Steven - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
In an era of increased accountability and high-stakes testing, school principals need to think very differently about … to examine the extent to which high school principals use data in instructional leadership, and to identify factors in … questions were: 1) To what extent do high school principals use data in addressing the administrative problems of instructional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211441
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Modern and Post-Modern Teacher Education: Revealing Contrasts in Basic Educational Beliefs and Practice
Nordgren, R.D. - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
/Standardization, Curriculum, Student Assessment, Management, and Resources. However, decided differences were found in faculty members’ responses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276155
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Learning of mathematics and language barriers: understanding basis for sustainable learning
Mahlomaholo, Mahlomaholo Geoffrey - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
In this paper I show how the understanding of mathematical conceptualisation from the lowest levels to the higher order cognitive functioning is based on fluency in a language of teaching and learning. The argument I pursue is informed by many theories of learning which emphasise the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207243
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The Criticism Directed to the Case Preparation Panel in Economic Courts in Egypt
Ghanem, Mohamed Abdelnaby Elsayed - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
Law and economy are firmly connected. Adding to that the economic life has an effect on the judicial thinking. So, rules of law should characterized the care of existed economic attitude in the state in a way that law seems to be a mirror in which the existed economic attitudes in most branches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207329