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Hedieh Najafi; N. Carol Rolheiser; Kelly Gordon – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
This article describes an evaluation of a campus wide Active Learning initiative to examine instructors' experiences teaching in Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs) at a Canadian University. ALCs at this university differ in size, layout, and audio-visual equipment. The participants were 21 instructors from different disciplines who had taught…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Classroom Design
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Michael P. A. Murphy; Andrea Phillipson; Andrew Leger – College Teaching, 2025
Recent years have witnessed the spread of purpose-built active learning classrooms throughout the higher education sector. While these innovative learning spaces are well-suited for a variety of active learning strategies, their lack of a single focal point means they are inconvenient spaces for lecturing. While educational developers often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, College Instruction
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Erin Keith; Carolyn Clarke; Allison Tucker – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2024
Learning spaces in higher education are fraught with colonial barriers such as teacher-centered, front facing, stark, feelingless, and unwelcoming classrooms that diminish students' feelings of well-being. For pre-service teachers, these are also the types of classrooms that they often inherit as they foray into the profession. Three Bachelor of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Decolonization
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Vinall-Cox, Joan – College Quarterly, 2005
This narrative inquiry reveals some behavior of digital-era students learning writing in a new digital classroom. The teaching methods, the physical design of the classroom, and the impact of the new technology are observed, along with the pedagogical theories in use. I suggest that a basic and significant change in students' writing behavior has…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Teaching Methods, Computer Uses in Education, Influence of Technology
Narang, H. L. – 1974
In order to determine what programs and practices in teaching reading were being used by the elementary schools in Saskatchewan, a survey was carried out in the winter of 1973. Eighty-two percent of the questionnaires (630) were returned by the schools. The survey shows that elementary schools in Saskatchewan use a variety of plans for classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Instructional Materials
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Zandvliet, David B.; Fraser, Barry J. – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2004
The study of learning environments provides a useful research framework for investigating the effects of educational innovations such as those which are associated with the use of the Internet in classroom settings. This study reports an investigation into the use of Internet technologies in high-school classrooms in Australia and Canada.…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Crocker, Robert K.; Banfield, Helen – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1986
Describes a study designed to explore sources of influence on the judgements made by science teachers related to school characteristics, classroom features, and properties of a science curriculum. Results suggest that teachers' judgments center around concern for student ability and interest, teaching methods, and school spirit and morale. (TW)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries
Politano, Colleen; Davies, Anne – 1994
As the world becomes more diverse socially, culturally, and economically, there are growing expectations that the individual's differences and rights will be recognized, respected, and responded to in positive ways. This book provides teachers of both multi-age and diverse single-age classrooms guidance on classroom organization, curriculum…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
Rubin, Rhonda; Aquino-Russell, Catherine; Flagg-Williams, Joan – Online Submission, 2007
(Purpose) The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of classroom sound field amplification on communication in kindergarten through grade 3 classrooms. (Methodology) Sixty classrooms were involved in the study; half of the classrooms were provided with sound field amplification. The flow of communication was measured through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Observation, Semi Structured Interviews