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Moore, Joi L., Ed.; Benson, Angela D., Ed. – InTech, 2012
This book, written by authors representing 12 countries and five continents, is a collection of international perspectives on distance learning and distance learning implementations in higher education. The perspectives are presented in the form of practical case studies of distance learning implementations, research studies on teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Instructional Design, Educational Technology

Handelsman, Mitchell M. – Teaching of Psychology, 1985
Described is an exercise that will help college-level psychology students learn abstract and relational thinking skills. The exercise will provide students with a new way to handle compare-and-contrast questions. (RM)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Course Descriptions

Wright, Jone P.; Allen, Elizabeth G. – Language Arts, 1976
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Comparative Analysis, Creative Dramatics, Grade 6

Lankiewicz, Donald – Social Education, 1985
Senior high social studies students discuss how people who lived during the Great Depression viewed the future and then, coming back to the present, predict how 13 new industrial inventions of today may affect life a hundred years from now. (RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Futures (of Society), High Schools, Learning Activities
Baker, Paul J.; Anderson, Louis E. – 1983
A prospectus and practical guide, this manual shows college teachers how to help students better understand social problems by comparing sociology with two other types of social knowledge (common sense and journalism) and cultivate critical thinking skills which transcend the three types of social knowledge. Chapter 1 proposes a teaching/learning…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
Clift, Renee T. – 1984
A study compared the effects of dramatic enactment as a class activity with more traditional teaching methods on students' acquisition and retention of the concepts taught in the lesson. Subjects were 102 secondary school students from various content classes, randomly assigned to a half-class. Each half-class was taught two lesson topics, half…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Comparative Analysis, Dramatic Play, Educational Research

Keetz, Frank – Social Education, 1985
In this learning activity senior high social studies students examine and discuss specific parts of the Soviet Constitution and learn that there is often a big difference between theory and reality. (RM)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law
Kendall, Diane S. – Intercom, 1981
Presents a learning activity in which secondary students read about and analyze the legal institutions of an African tribe called the Ibo. Students compare the Ibo's precolonial system of resolving disputes with the U.S. system. (AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Language Arts

Durham, Alexis M., III – Teaching Sociology, 1990
Argues that students often memorize, without critical analysis, components and processes of subjects in the sociology curriculum. Suggests that using cross-cultural, comparative material is a means of stimulating the critical energy of students, and subverting the tendency toward uncritical acceptance of factual "nuts and bolts." (DB)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking, Cross Cultural Studies
Van Camp, Julie – 1985
Designed for use in the high school curriculum, two lessons introduce students to contemporary issues surrounding the American jury system and to political, legal, and economic systems of other countries. Although intended for use with a filmstrip, cassette, computer software, and a computer instructional manual, activities in the teaching guide…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Courts, Delinquency, Foreign Countries
Blankenship, Glen, Ed. – 1992
The 12 lessons in this collection are designed so that they may be used individually, integrated into the curriculum at appropriate places, or used as a complete unit. The lessons are entitled: (1) Impressions of Germany and Germans; (2) The Location and Population of Germany; (3) Pollution in Germany: A Complex Problems; (4) German Political…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, European History, Foreign Countries, International Studies

Smith, Murray R. – History and Social Science Teacher, 1982
Outlines six activities for grades six through nine designed to illustrate the processes used by archaeologists. These processes include observation, comparison, classification, communication, use of numbers, and hypothesis formation. (AM)
Descriptors: Archaeology, Classification, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis

Western, Linda E. – Language Arts, 1980
Tells benefits of approaching the study of literature through a study of folk tale variants; suggests a plan for helping children analyze and compare folk tale variants. Includes a model of a discussion based on three versions of "Jack and the Beanstalk," and lists and annotates variant editions of nine familiar folk tales. (ET)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Books, Childrens Literature, Comparative Analysis
Brandt, Millicent Hume – 1986
A music teacher specialist at an elementary school with a typical kindergarten music program implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to improve the auditory sequencing skills of kindergarten children through increased instruction in music. Test scores on screening measures indicated the need to improve the children's auditory memory…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Check Lists, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
National Federation of Independent Business, San Mateo, CA. Research and Education Foundation. – 1983
To assist students in comparing living standards in the Soviet Union and Western Nations, a chart containing data from a 1982 survey of the retail prices of 179 selected consumer goods and services is provided. Prices were converted into worktime equivalents and the capital of each country, with the exception of Munich, was chosen to represent the…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Communism, Comparative Analysis, Consumer Education