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Krzic, Maja; Wilson, Julie; Hazlett, Paul; Diochon, Amanda – Natural Sciences Education, 2019
This study explored practices that Canadian soil scientists use to educate postsecondary students, K-12 students, and the general public. The most commonly used type of educational activities described by survey respondents, regardless of the settings and the type of target audience, were field-based hands-on activities. The other two commonly…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Sana, Faria; Forrin, Noah D.; Sharma, Mrinalini; Dubljevic, Tamara; Ho, Peter; Jalil, Ezza; Kim, Joseph A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
Learning objectives (LOs) are statements that typically precede a study session and describe the knowledge students should obtain by the end of the session. Despite their widespread use, limited research has investigated the effect of LOs on learning. In three laboratory experiments, we examined the extent to which LOs improve retention of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Learning Processes, Reading Processes, Retention (Psychology)
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Hampton, Cathy; Demeure-Ahearne, Ariane – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper gives account of a project involving Year Abroad students of French at Warwick University challenged to select "realia" from their host countries in order to stimulate enthusiasm for language learning in local schools. It considers the cognitive and affective processes informing the "culture gathering" that took…
Descriptors: Global Education, Citizen Participation, Foreign Culture, Study Abroad
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Walkington, Helen; Dyer, Sarah; Solem, Michael; Haigh, Martin; Waddington, Shelagh – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
A geographical education offers more than skills, subject knowledge and generic attributes. It also develops a set of discipline-specific capabilities that contribute to a graduate's future learning and experience, granting them special ways of thinking for lifelong development and for contributing to the welfare of themselves, their community and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Geography Instruction, Competency Based Education, Discourse Analysis
Singh, Madhu – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
This book deals with the relevance of recognition, validation and accreditation (RVA) of non-formal and informal learning in education and training, the workplace and society. It examines RVA's strategic policy objectives and best practice features as well as the challenges faced and ways forward as reported by Member States. Special attention is…
Descriptors: Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Vocational Education, Global Approach
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Stockley, Denise; Balkwill, Laura-Lee; Hoessler, Carolyn – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2016
In 2008, Queen's University launched an online tutorial called CHRPP, the Course in Human Research Participant Protection, and published a paper about its purpose, design, and usability in Balkwill, Stevenson, Stockley, and Marlin (2009). CHRPP was originally created to raise awareness among research students about the federal policy regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Ethics, Research Administration
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Paton, Valerie O.; Reith Charles C.; Harden, Karon K.; Abaurre, Rogério; Tremblay, Crystal – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
Narratives from 3 presenters at the closing session of the 2013 Engagement Scholarship Consortium Conference demonstrate that higher education institutions and communities can forge deep and sustainable relationships to address the "wicked problems" in their countries and communities. University leaders in Nigeria described how students…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, College Faculty, College Students, Service Learning
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Pollock, Katina; Winton, Sue – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2012
Maple Leaf School is a large English elementary school in Ontario, Canada. Wanda Miller, the principal, has been at the school for 2 years. Upon arrival, she engaged the teachers in a collaborative exercise to determine their school goal (as required by the province). Character education was selected. The district insisted that the school adopt an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Values Education, Educational Improvement
Zuniga, Sabrina Faust – Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, 2009
Student participation in applied research as a form of experiential learning in community colleges is relatively new. Ontario Colleges today participate at different levels with different numbers of projects and faculty involved. A few colleges in Ontario are more established in doing applied research including having basic infrastructure for…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Research, Student Participation
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Stodel, Emma J.; Thompson, Terrie Lynn; MacDonald, Colla J. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2006
Despite the success that instructors and learners often enjoy with online university courses, learners have also reported that they miss face-to-face contact when learning online. The purpose of this inquiry was to identify learners' perceptions of what is missing from online learning and provide recommendations for how we can continue to innovate…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Online Courses, Learning Experience, Higher Education
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Walsh, Christine A.; Shier, Micheal L.; Sitter, Kathleen C.; Sieppert, Jackie D. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
Social work education accreditation requires the completion of course work specifically around issues related to oppression and diversity within society. Educators offer a range of approaches to engage students in discussion about oppression and diversity from academic content and structured curriculum to reflective practice and experiential…
Descriptors: Social Work, Graduate Students, Social Justice, Teaching Methods
Ally, Mohamed; Cleveland-Innes, Martha; Boskic, Natasha; Larwill, Sandra – Journal of Distance Education, 2006
This article reports findings from a study exploring the generativity (Gibbons, Nelson, & Richards, 2000; Parrish, 2004) and discoverability (Friesen, 2001) of learning objects in the hands of the learner. Through the convergence of two separate pilot projects--the Canadian EduSource initiative through Athabasca University, and the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Pilot Projects, Online Courses, Lifelong Learning
Bulcock, J. W.; And Others – 1980
Advantages of normalization regression estimation over ridge regression estimation are demonstrated by reference to Bloom's model of school learning. Theoretical concern centered on the structure of scholastic achievement at grade 10 in Canadian high schools. Data on 886 students were randomly sampled from the Carnegie Human Resources Data Bank.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1984
This curriculum guide contains learning module outlines for teaching a series of courses in pipefitting in high schools in Alberta. Each module provides selected learning experiences to develop basic competence in plumbing, pipefitting, and related trades. Each module consists of an introduction, objectives, learning resources list, content…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Heating, High Schools
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1984
This curriculum guide contains learning module outlines for teaching a series of courses in graphic arts in high schools in Alberta. Each module provides learning experiences selected to develop basic competence in trades in the graphic arts field. Each module consists of an introduction, objectives, learning resources list, content summary, and a…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Graphic Arts, High Schools
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