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A Positive Student Experience of Collaborative Project Work in Upper-Year Undergraduate Chemistry
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Knox, Kerry J.; Gillis, Elizabeth A. L.; Dake, Gregory R. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2019
Demands are placed on undergraduate courses in chemistry to develop transferable skills, such as teamwork, alongside subject content and technical skills. Such skills can be developed by implementing pedagogies which involve students working together. Such pedagogies can, however, pose various challenges, including unfavourable student perceptions…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Experience, Cooperative Learning, College Science
Converting a Large Lecture Class to an Active Blended Learning Class: Why, How, and What We Learned
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Godlewska, Anne; Beyer, Wanda; Whetstone, Scott; Schaefli, Laura; Rose, John; Talan, Breah; Kamin-Patterson, Sean; Lamb, Christopher; Forcione, Melissa – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
Faced with diminished faculty resources and increased student enrolment from 2010 to 2017, we sought to use blended learning to achieve active learning in a large c.400-student introductory geography class. Working iteratively over seven years and eight classes and using smart classrooms, better timetabling, experimentation with peer review and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Blended Learning, Geography Instruction, College Instruction
Disrupting Course Design in Online CALL Teacher Education: An Experimentation
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Bangou, Francis; Vasilopoulos, Gene – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2018
This article experiments with creativity, ambiguity, design thinking, research, and teacher education in computer-assisted language learning within the development of a distance teacher education course on computer-assisted language learning. By deploying philosophy of immanence, the associated agencements of teacher becoming in computer-assisted…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Creativity, Design, Distance Education
Intersecting Interests: Qualitative Research Synthesis on Art in the Social Work Classroom
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Wehbi, Samantha; Cowell, Amanda; Perreault-Laird, Jordyn; El-Lahib, Yahya; Straka, Silvia – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
This paper reports on a qualitative research synthesis that explored the intersections between art and social work. The scholarship notes a rise in interest in integrating creative arts practices in social work classrooms from assignment design to classroom activities. Also highlighted are the potential contributions of these artsinformed…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Synthesis, Art, Social Work
The Challenges of Collaborative Learning across the Border--Canada and the United States: Divergent Paths/Intertwined Futures
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Parham, Claire Puccia – History Teacher, 2014
For The past two years, Siena College and Loyola International College for Diversity and Sustainability (LCDS), formerly Loyola International College, have jointly taught a comparative Canadian/ U.S. history class. Concordia University, an English language university, has more than 46,000 students and offers 433 undergraduate and graduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, College Instruction, Higher Education
Become a Google Power User
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Gunn, Holly – Teacher Librarian, 2005
Become a Goggle Power User was developed for incoming students in Sackville High School, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2003, and has been adapted for use in other local schools and in several universities, it is an instructional program designed for first-year high school students that was integrated into the English Language Arts curriculum, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Freshmen, Internet, Search Engines