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Alice S. N. Kim; Danielle Robinson; Celia Popovic; Alecia Carolli; Brad Jennings; Franz Newland – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
In this study we explored the experiences of students who completed a project-based, interdisciplinary capstone course that was offered at a large university in Southern Ontario, Canada. To do so, we interviewed students after they completed the course, adopting a constructivist perspective and a phenomenological approach. Interview transcripts…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Active Learning, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Laidlaw, Liam; Din, Cari – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore and evaluate learning in an undergraduate leadership course in a kinesiology faculty. The research question driving this study was: What do students feel influences learning in this evidence-informed leadership course? We collected and analyzed 12 students' perspectives on their learning experiences over…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Kinesiology, Leadership Training, Learning Experience
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Jones, Francis – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
We compared seven unrelated data-sets to evaluate a major education improvement initiative. Perceptions of students in 54 course sections were surveyed regarding the helpfulness of 39 specific teaching or learning strategies, and relative workloads and enthusiasm were compared to their other courses. Classes were observed using an established…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Science Education, Program Evaluation, Educational Improvement
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Lévesque, Stéphane G.; Zanazanian, Paul – McGill Journal of Education, 2015
This paper looks at the historical consciousness of prospective history teachers in Canada. Using a bilingual online survey instrument inspired by the pan-Canadian research "Canadians and their Pasts" with volunteer participants (N = 233), the study investigates their background knowledge, their perceptions of the trustworthiness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Preservice Teachers, National Surveys
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Reid, Leslie F.; Sexton, Julie; Orsi, Rebecca – Journal of Faculty Development, 2015
Project Engage (PE) was a 16-month teaching enhancement program offered at a large doctoral-granting university. Participants in this pilot program were full time faculty members who redesigned large enrollment introductory university courses to improve student engagement. To support their redesign projects, participants first received feedback…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Learner Engagement, Research Universities, Pilot Projects
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Nomme, Kathy; Birol, Gülnur – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
A first year non-majors biology course, with an enrollment of around 440 students, has been redesigned from a course of traditional content and teaching style to one that emphasizes biological concepts in current global issues and incorporates active learning strategies. We were informed by the education literature incorporating many aspects of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Evidence, Curriculum Development, Biology
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Kristmanson, Paula; Lafargue, Chantal; Culligan, Karla – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2013
This article focuses on the experiences of Grade 12 students using a language portfolio based on the principles and guidelines of the European Language Portfolio (ELP) in their second language classes in a large urban high school. As part of a larger action-research project, focus group interviews were conducted to gather data related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grade 12
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Popov, Nikolay, Ed.; Wolhuter, Charl, Ed.; Kalin, Jana, Ed.; Hilton, Gillian, Ed.; Ogunleye, James, Ed.; Niemczyk, Ewelina, Ed. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
Papers from the proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society was submitted in two volumes. Volume 1 contains papers submitted at the conference held in Sofia, Bulgaria, June 14-17, 2016. Volume 2 contains papers submitted at the 4th International Partner Conference of the International Research Centre…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Conferences (Gatherings), Comparative Education, Educational History
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Hovorka, Alice J.; Wolf, Peter A. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2009
Much geographical scholarship on teaching and learning details the intellectual, technical and personal benefits stemming from residential field course offerings, reflecting characteristics of constructivist active learning. With the sustainability of these offerings in question given logistical and political issues, there is greater demand for…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Active Learning, Experiential Learning
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Justice, Christopher; Rice, James; Warry, Wayne – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
This paper examines whether a single first-year inquiry-based seminar can have a lasting impact on students' academic skills. Fifty-four Inquiry students and 71 comparable students participated in three performance tests: a research skills exercise; an evaluation of oral presentation ability; and a test of critical reasoning and teamwork skills.…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Inquiry, Quasiexperimental Design, Evidence
Simmons, Gail C. – 1995
In this chapter, a Canadian high school teacher describes a senior English independent study program requiring that each student become involved in a topic through experience. From previous teaching experiences, the teacher realized that the curriculum was secondary to the method of delivery, that learning happened when a teacher instilled in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, English Instruction, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
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Bardati, Darren R. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: This paper seeks to suggest that the campus environmental audit can become an important tool that synergizes active learning and operations planning and management approaches to promote sustainability on university campuses. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents the author's experiences at Bishop's University with the evolution…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Audits (Verification), Campuses, Active Learning
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends