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Stimulus Business Writing: Using Case Studies and Reports in a Cross-Cultural Virtual Exchange
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Smith, Simon – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
We evaluate the use of a Virtual Exchange (VE) writing task, Stimulus Writing, which we assigned to groups of UK and Finnish business students. There were two learner cohorts in the study: one in the UK (mainly Chinese students), the other in Finland (mainly Finns). The Finnish students wrote authentic case studies about Nordic businesses, while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Writing Skills, Writing Improvement
Criteria for Evaluating Microcomputer Software for Reading Development: Observations Based on Three British Case Studies.
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Harrison, Colin – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1985
Compares evaluative assumptions built into published sets of guidelines for microcomputer software evaluation with those derived from three small United Kingdom case studies of microcomputer usage in reading/language classes. The case studies provide data on teacher and student reaction to five computer programs used by 9- to 13-year-olds. (MBR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Check Lists, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software
Trayectorias: A New Model for Online Task-Based Learning
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Ros i Sole, Cristina; Mardomingo, Raquel – ReCALL, 2004
This paper discusses a framework for designing online tasks that capitalizes on the possibilities that the Internet and the Web offer for language learning. To present such a framework, we draw from constructivist theories (Brooks and Brooks, 1993) and their application to educational technology (Newby, Stepich, Lehman and Russell, 1996; Jonassen,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Open Universities, Student Attitudes, Distance Education