Girlhood Studies, as an academic discipline, is continually growing. Since some educational institutions include girls’ studies part of a special curriculum, program, certificate course, minor, or Women’s Studies Gender has presence in academia although at this stage rarely autonomous department. This interest the pedagogies and practices teaching important aspect its growth field study not onl...

At the University of Maine, middle and high school science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teachers observed 51 STEM courses across 13 different departments and collected information on the active-engagement nature of instruction. The results of these observations show that faculty members teaching STEM courses cannot simply be classified into two groups, traditional lecturers ...

Effective student engagement in learning is not a simple transposition of practices from the traditional classroom to the online environment, and strategies for engaging students may work less well in the unbounded spaces of interaction of the Internet where assumed understandings of teaching and learning have less hold. Even experienced practitioners encounter unexpected outcomes when designin...

All projects which aim to discover, devise or share “best practices” in teaching and learning are faced with a common problem: how to disseminate their results to the point where others can adopt them. Increasingly, this dissemination requirement is a condition of funding, as funding bodies try to maximise the impact of their initiatives in terms of widespread dissemination and replication of “...

The article examines the major challenges that Russian higher education institutions face while introducing principles of Bologna Process into current teaching practice. Their participation in international projects together with European HEIs is seen as one possible ways to overcome encountered difficulties. role Capacity Building under Erasmus+ Programme illustrated by an example Penza State ...