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Kricsfalusy, Vladimir; George, Colleen; Reed, Maureen G. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Improving student competencies to address sustainability challenges has been a subject of significant debate in higher education. Problem- and project-based learning have been widely celebrated as course models that support the development of sustainability competencies. This paper describes a course developed for a professional Master's program…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects, Environmental Education
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Wiltse, Lynne – Literacy, 2015
In this paper, I report on a school-university collaborative research project that investigated which practices and knowledges of Canadian Aboriginal students not acknowledged in school may provide these students with access to school literacy practices. The study, which took place in a small city in Western Canada, examined ways to merge the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College School Cooperation, Research Projects, Indigenous Populations
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Shaw, Lawton; Kennepohl, Dietmar – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Senior undergraduate research projects are important components of most undergraduate science degrees. The delivery of such projects in a distance education format is challenging. Athabasca University (AU) science project courses allow distance education students to complete research project courses by working with research supervisors in their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Instruction, Student Projects
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Shi, Ling; Reeder, Ken; Slater, Tammy; Kristjansson, Carolyn – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2004
There has been little research on how a content-based teacher education course can embed effective training in the use of the World Wide Web to search for information and present learning outcomes. To address this gap, the present study documents the experience of 64 pre-service and in-service teachers who completed a web-based group project in an…
Descriptors: Education Courses, Applied Linguistics, Teacher Attitudes, Internet