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Sonia Santoveña-Casal; Javier Gil-Quintana; José Javier Hueso-Romero – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2024
Purpose: Microteaching is a teacher training method based on microclasses (groups of four or five students) and microlessons lasting no more than 5-20 min. Since it was first explored in the late 20th century in experiments at Stanford University, microteaching has evolved at the interdisciplinary level. The purpose of this paper is to examine the…
Descriptors: Microteaching, Networks, Higher Education, Electronic Learning
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Hipkiss, Anna Maria; Windsor, Sally; Sanders, Dawn – Ethnography and Education, 2020
This article uses vignettes and photographs taken from ethnographic research to reframe the methodological assumptions within school garden research. New theoretical perspectives are applied to previous empirical school garden research that provides deeper understandings of both the teaching and the learning of ecoliteracy in such material…
Descriptors: Gardening, Vignettes, Photography, Ethnography
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Westermark, Åsa; Jansund, Bodil – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
There are many approaches to teaching about globalization, commodity chains, and sustainability. Education for sustainable development demands teaching approaches that capture multidimensional and integrated aspects of environmental, social, economic, and political factors. In geography, additional aspects require attention, such as understanding…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Sustainability, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Leier, Vera; Gruber, Alice – JALT CALL Journal, 2021
This paper reports on a study investigating the use of digital devices by language students at universities in New Zealand, Sweden and Germany. The study also examines the use of social media for learning a foreign language in an institutional context, using survey results from language students in the three countries. Based on an online survey…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Haj-Bolouri, Amir; Flensburg, Per – International Journal on E-Learning, 2017
Previous research on e-learning elucidates the notion of presence and learning. Scholars have conceptualized different concepts and theories based on the idea of distance education and learning. However, the "experience" of learning has been overshadowed with emphasizes on pedagogical models for social presence, theories on how to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Distance Education, Teacher Student Relationship
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Singer, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
We discuss oral history interviews with academics who laid the foundation of research and pedagogies in daycare for under three-year-olds in Europe and North and South America since the 1970s. Their work is clearly embedded in the social-political context of their country: the left-wing programmes for disadvantaged families in the U.S.A.;…
Descriptors: Oral History, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Neoliberalism
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Marklund, Leif – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper focuses on preschool teachers' use of online social networks for discussions about tablets in preschools. Posts initiating discussions (n = 465) were analysed to increase understanding of what questions tablets raise among preschool teachers and to understand online communication from a professional development perspective. Posts were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
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Sauro, Shannon; Sundmark, Björn – ELT Journal, 2016
This study builds upon work in task-based language teaching and literary studies to explore the use of fan fiction as a pedagogical tool in a technology-enhanced university foreign language class. A task-based fan fiction project, The Blogging Hobbit, modelled on blog-based role-play storytelling found in online media fandoms, was carried out in a…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, Fiction, Task Analysis
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Quennerstedt, Mikael – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2013
Background: In this article, students' diverse ways of participating in physical education (PE) practice shown in clips on YouTube were investigated. YouTube is the largest user-generated video-sharing website on the Internet, where different video content is presented. The clips on YouTube, as used in this paper, can be seen as a user-generated…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teaching Methods, Internet, Video Technology
Lindroth, Tomas; Lundin, Johan; Svensson, Lars – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
Laptops and other networked technologies are commonplace at university campuses. While a range of studies researches the negative effects of multitasking, screenpeeking and other laptop related side effects this article emphasize the situational impact of student-laptop interaction. Departing from Goffman's framework on unfocused interaction and…
Descriptors: Laptop Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Higher Education
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Lantz-Andersson, Annika; Vigmo, Sylvi; Bowen, Rhonwen – Research-publishing.net, 2012
The amount of time that people, especially young people, spend on communicative activities in social media is rapidly increasing. We are facing new arenas with great potential for learning in general and for language learning in particular, but their impact on learning is not yet acknowledged as such in educational practice (e.g., Conole, 2010;…
Descriptors: Social Networks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Media
Benson, Phil, Ed.; Reinders, Hayo, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
This comprehensive exploration of theoretical and practical aspects of out-of-class teaching and learning, from a variety of perspectives and in various settings around the world, includes a theoretical overview of the field, 11 data-based case studies, and practical advice on materials development for independent learning. Contents of this book…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Independent Study, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2012
For the first time, the annual conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) took place in Sweden. The conference took place at the Faculty of Education on historic ground on the old fortification walls of Carolus Dux from the 17th century right in the centre of the city. This year's host comprised the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods