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Brenna L. Decker – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2025
In Spring of 2023, I developed a special topics course titled "Collection Material Handling" to introduce students to museum management using Utah State University collections on the Logan, UT campus. The cross-listed upper-level course brought 16 USU students together from two disciplines: anthropology and natural sciences. The…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Museums, Advanced Courses, Anthropology
Brennan, Jonathan – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2020
"Engaging Learners through Zoom" delivers numerous practical strategies and helpful advice on how to engage students virtually. Many of the tools are also applicable in face-to-face and hybrid environments. Backed by cognitive neuroscience research, this book is a collection of dozens of active, synchronous online learning structures…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Learner Engagement, Videoconferencing
Diana R. Feldhacker; Bobbi S. Greiner – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2022
Occupational therapy (OT) school is where learning begins as students prepare to become future professionals. Thus, effective course design is imperative in professional formation. This study examined the effectiveness of a course designed around andragogical and active learning principles in combination with Fink's (2013) taxonomy of learning for…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Instructional Design, Blended Learning, Independent Study
Dennen, Vanessa – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2019
How can social media help transform a student's learning experience and promote active engagement with learning content and peers? "Social Media for Active Learning" helps instructors achieve this goal. Many people use social media in their everyday lives, seeking information and informal learning opportunities via their online networks.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
Glynn, Cassandra; Wesely, Pamela; Wassell, Beth – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2018
The second edition of "Words and Actions" features an expanded framework, a variety of new unit, lesson, and activity examples from different languages and levels, and additional content on how social justice education fits within the context of contemporary approaches to language instruction. The revised text provides concrete examples…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Guidelines
Walqui, Aída; Heritage, Margaret – American Educator, 2018
For English language learners (ELLs) to productively engage in classroom discussions that foster language development, content knowledge, and analytical practices, teachers must create a trusting classroom culture. How do we ensure that all ELLs have opportunities to productively use oral language in academic settings? And how do we ensure that…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Oral Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment
Hauschild, Staci; Poltavtchenko, Elena; Stoller, Fredricka L. – English Teaching Forum, 2012
In this article, the authors endorse a model that uses themes as springboards for language improvement, accompanied by the added benefit of content learning, though to differing degrees depending on the instructional setting. The themes that teachers choose to integrate into their language classrooms may reflect serious issues (e.g., elections,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, English (Second Language), Listening, Language Skills
Alvarez, Claudia; Cuesta, Liliana – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
This article examines types of interaction from the perspective of intervening agents and interaction outcomes. We argue that the strategic combination of these types of interaction with certain core features (such as dosified input, attainable goal-setting, personalization and collaboration) contribute to creating a more effective relationship…
Descriptors: Interaction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Blended Learning, Graduate Study
Zoffel, Nicholas Alexis – Communication Teacher, 2010
This article describes an activity in which teachers and students use music in the form of a "Mix-tape" to relate communication theory to students' lived experiences. When students identify and use their own familiar popular culture texts to explain concepts and identify relationships, they do so in ways that the course textbook cannot. This…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Course Content, Music, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Glaser, Hollis F. – Communication Teacher, 2011
Corporate influence is a defining characteristic of mass media in the U.S. A typical introductory textbook devotes a number of chapters to the economic structure of the mass media including advertising, public relations, and corporate ownership, then also includes chapter sections on the economics of the various media (television, radio,…
Descriptors: Advertising, Teaching Styles, Public Relations, Content Analysis
Ballard, Sharon M.; Elmore, Barry – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2009
Service-Learning has become a popular pedagogical strategy; yet, little attention has been given to the construction of a syllabus that includes a service-learning component. The purpose of this paper is to help instructors identify essential components of high-quality service-learning, to learn ways to incorporate these components into…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Course Descriptions, Course Content, Curriculum Development
Hannah, David R.; Venkatachary, Ranga – Journal of Management Education, 2010
In this article, the authors present a retrospective analysis of an instructor's multiyear redesign of a course on organization theory into what is called a hybrid Classroom-as-Organization model. It is suggested that this new course design served to apprentice students to function in quasi-real organizational structures. The authors further argue…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Class Activities, Learning Activities
LoGiudice, James – 1975
The booklet outlines a philosophy course for gifted high school students. The program is designed to provide both academic substance and higher level critical thinking skill development. Objectives of the program include: (1) becoming more sensitive to life's major alternative goals and the standard means recommended for attaining them; (2)…
Descriptors: Course Content, Gifted, High Schools, Learning Activities
Pusey, Stephen – Illinois Schools Journal, 1983
Provides ideas for using community studies to acquaint students with American history and to help them develop an appreciation of the uniqueness of their own community and the importance of the role that a locality can play within the nation. Lists seven student learning activities and presents suggestions for researching local history. (KH)
Descriptors: Course Content, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Local History

Ingalsbee, Timothy – Teaching Sociology, 1992
Describes a group project from a course on rural, countercultural communitarians' attempts to create utopian communities. Explains that the project gives students the opportunity to integrate material from a variety of sources and to apply it to a group term paper. Suggests that the project utilizes experiential methods for learning abstract…
Descriptors: Community, Course Content, Group Discussion, Higher Education