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An Evaluation Of Efl Textbooks Used In Higher Education, Alma Lama, Diana Sejdiu, Eglantina Bilalli
An Evaluation Of Efl Textbooks Used In Higher Education, Alma Lama, Diana Sejdiu, Eglantina Bilalli
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In English as a Foreign Language/English as a Second Language (EFL/ESL) contexts, textbooks are simultaneously important. Indeed, textbooks contain the syllabus, which is being expected by teachers to follow more or less faithfully, with end-of-course exams being based exclusively on textbook content. In this study, we will investigate the selection of English language textbooks as tools used in public and private universities. We will look at the levels of content, and what textbooks include and exclude in terms of topic, linguistic information, pedagogy, and culture. We will also examine how teachers and learners use textbooks and the processes by which …
The Importance Of Digital Skills In Education In The Covid-19 Era, Alma V. Lama
The Importance Of Digital Skills In Education In The Covid-19 Era, Alma V. Lama
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Education is a fundamental right and we have to make sure we hold on to it despite any crisis and beyond. Just like in all the world, Kosovo has been affected by the pandemic COVID -19 in March 2020. The pandemic situation has changed how things function and it looks like this is going to be a new normal. As a result of it, all industries including the educational institutions, those private and public, had to reimagine how to switch into online performance and computer-based learning. Online learning has served as a lever to continue with education in an online …
Parent – Teacher Voices In Kosovo Schools A Micro-Study On Parent Involvement, Syzane Merovci
Parent – Teacher Voices In Kosovo Schools A Micro-Study On Parent Involvement, Syzane Merovci
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Parent involvement is crucial toward successful child home learning, involving multitude of duties and responsibilities. Successful schools found that the role of parents in children’s education is invaluable and of paramount importance, therefore it is the most accurate predicator of a child’s success in school. Recent data shows that majority of research agree to the point that despite many strides made by schools to get things better, there are hindered barriers either coming from the family as well as from the school. Creating a sustainable collaborative partnership seems to be the biggest challenge faced by practitioners engaged in school reform, …
Creating And Curating New Knowledge: A North American University Case Study, Niraj Chaudhary, Michele Gibney
Creating And Curating New Knowledge: A North American University Case Study, Niraj Chaudhary, Michele Gibney
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In the Fall of 2017, a cross disciplinary team at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, USA worked together to identify ways of creating new knowledge for an undergraduate engineering course titled Building Information Modeling. The team included faculty from the School of Engineering and Computer Science and technical staff from the Cube, a digital makerspace in the library. Students were tasked to design and model a one-story building to house the University of the Pacific Garden Program on campus. The cross disciplinary team had the students explore an immersive way of seeing the building model by using a …