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Attard, Angele; Di Iorio, Emma; Geven, Koen; Santa, Robert – European Students' Union (NJ1), 2010
This Toolkit forms part of the project entitled "Time for a New Paradigm in Education: Student-Centred Learning" (T4SCL), jointly led by the European Students' Union (ESU) and Education International (EI). This is an EU-funded project under the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) administered by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Schiller, Shu Z. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2009
Guided by the principles of learner-centered teaching methodology, a Second Life project is designed to engage students in active learning of virtual commerce through hands-on experiences and teamwork in a virtual environment. More importantly, an assessment framework is proposed to evaluate the learning objectives and learning process of the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Virtual Classrooms, Teaching Methods
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Kinchin, Ian M.; De-Leij, Frans A. A. M.; Hay, David B. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2005
Concept mapping activities were trialed over a 2 year period as part of an undergraduate microbiology course. This paper describes this developmental process and offers insight into the most beneficial ways of employing this tool in a higher education setting. The aim was to investigate the use of mapping activities to improve students'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Microbiology, Course Evaluation, Learning Activities
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Lunenberg, Mieke; Korthagen, Fred A. J. – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2005
Although there is a fair amount of knowledge on the issue of promoting student-directed learning, research indicates that teachers are not always able to put that knowledge into practice. Therefore, new educational practices related to student-directed learning should be introduced in teacher education. This makes it possible to break the didactic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education
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Hopkinson, Gillian C.; Hogg, Margaret K. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2004
There is significant evidence that student-centred approaches to learning using experiential exercises considerably enhance students' understanding of substantive theory and also aid acquisition of transferable skills, such as those pertaining to research management and investigation. We consider an experiential pedagogic approach to be…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning, Transfer of Training
Luskin, Jack; Manning, Teena; Siegel, Jodie – 1997
This two-volume document consists of a curriculum and an instructor's manual for a learner-centered workshop on alternative clothes cleaning that is intended for operators of dry-cleaning establishments and individuals who are interested in opening a garment wet cleaning facility. Volume 1, the curriculum, contains 11 learning modules. Each module…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Compliance (Legal), Conservation (Environment)