Engaging teaching has emerged as a key approach to fostering children's socio-emotional and cognitive skills. This policy note draws on findings of a recent comparative study on the LEGO Foundation's Engage, formerly known as Playful Learning Across the Years (PLAY)1, classroom observation tool,...

Unterschiedliche globale Umweltveränderungen stellen die Menschheit vor Herausforderungen, die nur durch die Große Transformation hin zu Nachhaltiger Raumentwicklung gelöst werden können. Transformationsbedarfe treten in jeglichen Systemen wie Zivilgesellschaft, Wirtschaft oder Politik auf...

Data Literacy gehört als Schlüsselkompetenz zu den sog. „Future Skills“, die in einer digitalisierten Welt benötigt werden, um erfolgreich an der Wissenschaft, der Arbeitswelt und der Gesellschaft im Allgemeinen teilhaben zu können. Data Literacy bezieht sich auf vielfältige Kompetenzen...

Unterschiedliche globale Umweltveränderungen stellen die Menschheit vor Herausforderungen, die nur durch die Große Transformation hin zu Nachhaltiger Raumentwicklung gelöst werden können. Transformationsbedarfe treten in jeglichen Systemen wie Zivilgesellschaft, Wirtschaft oder Politik auf...

Purpose: The purpose of our research is to show the point of view of the members of the Board concerning advantages, disadvantages and effectiveness of open ended questions used as a complement to closed response questionnaires.Design/methodology/approach: In this paper, we will describe a pilot...

This research sought to explore self-reported satisfaction levels of mature students enrolled in the virtual financial accounting course of the first online-only bachelor's degree in Portugal. While doing so, it attempted to generate understanding of which factors may affect undergraduate mature...

"If you are looking for the intersection of past practices, current thinking, and future insights into the ever-expanding world of entrepreneurship education, then you will want to read and explore the sixth edition of the Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy. Prepared under the...

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations publishes both non-empirical and empirical articles dealing with accounting education. All articles emphasize teaching, learning and curriculum development, and discuss vital matters pertaining to the improvement of accounting...

Unter der Leitfrage "Wie lässt sich ökonomisches Denken fördern?" haben Wissenschaftler:innen und Studierende im Rahmen einer Ringvorlesung Zugänge zum ökonomischen Denken diskutiert. Der Sammelband präsentiert die Ergebnisse dieser Diskussionen und ordnet sie in die aktuellen Debatten zur...

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ...

Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations publishes both non-empirical and empirical articles dealing with accounting education. All articles emphasize teaching, learning and curriculum development, and discuss vital matters pertaining to the improvement of accounting...

"This timely book presents a nuanced exploration of the key pedagogical, theoretical and practical challenges facing modern business educators and students. Bringing together a cross-disciplinary team of experts, it highlights the importance of equipping students with the capabilities and...

Mit der Pandemiesituation ist es auch für Hochschulen notwendig geworden, flexiblere Lehrformen als die vorherrschende Präsenzlehre anzubieten. Der Umstellungsaufwand hin zu einer reinen digitalen Onlinelehre ist aber erheblich. Auch Studierende sind von diesen gravierenden Umständen...

Durch die Covid-19-Pandemie und die entsprechenden "Lock-Downs" wurde der digitale Lehrbetrieb an Hochschulen weiter in den Vordergrund gerückt. Die in den vergangenen Jahren und Jahrzehnten gesammelten Erfahrungen im E‑Learning und Blended Learning-Bereich sind zwar hilfreich, für die jetzt...

The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit,...

Recent decades have seen a dramatic rise in student evaluation of teaching (SET). However, they have overwhelmingly focused on quantitative ratings, neglecting students’ written feedback. This study addresses the lack of qualitative research on SET by applying a semantic theory and...

This paper uses administrative student and expenditure data from Florida public universities to describe a) how the cost of producing graduates varies by major, b) how the inclusion of major-specific instructional costs alters the estimated net returns to different fields of study, and c) how...

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed training processes. The transition from face-to-face to virtuality has affected the entire educational process favoring one of the open innovation key features in the higher education institutions: the ability to manage knowledge flow. Open innovation in...

Die Ursprünge des Forschenden Lernens liegen bereits Jahrhunderte zurück. Jedoch wurde das Konzept, Studierende in die Forschung an Universitäten einzubinden und sie "selber denken zu lassen" lange Zeit nicht als zielführend angesehen. Massenuniversitäten zielten auf frontale,...

Die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie bzw. der mit ihr verbundenen Maßnahmen auf die Lehre, Forschung, Selbstverwaltung und Work-Life-Balance eines Hochschullehrers werden dargestellt und mit weiterführenden Überlegungen verbunden.

Die vorliegende Studie betrachtet deutsche Lernfabriken aus verschiedenen Perspektiven und untersucht Lernfabriken an deutschen Hochschulen im Spannungsfeld hochschuldidaktischer, bildungspolitischer sowie regionalwirtschaftlicher Fragestellungen. Zunächst wird mittels einer quantitativen...

Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) have been suggested as one possible cause for low representation of women among academic economists. While econometric analyses using control variables certainly report that SETs can be influenced by the gender of both teacher and student, such studies may...

Using a survey of AFA members, we analyze how demographics, time allocation, production mechanisms, and institutional factors affect research production during the pandemic. Consistent with the literature, research productivity falls more for women and faculty with young children. Independently...

The college experience involves much more than credit hours and degrees. Students likely derive utility from in-person instruction and on-campus social activities. Quantitative measures of the value of these individual components have been hard to come by. Leveraging the COVID-19 shock, we...

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in temporary physical closures of schools and higher education institutions around the world. In higher education, approximately 220 million students globally have been affected due to the disruption caused by COVID-19, leaving policymakers and educational...

The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit,...

The Economy Studies project emerged from the worldwide movement to modernise economics education, spurred on by the global financial crisis of 2008, the climate crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. It envisions a wide variety of economics graduates and specialists, equipped with a broad toolkit,...

"Tackling the pressing challenges that business schools face as they deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this How To guide provides rich insights into how to create and sustain the business schools of the future. The SDGs are ubiquitous and this signals that business schools...