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Lee, Virginia S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) has widespread appeal in higher education as a suite of teaching strategies that promotes learning through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues using the methods of inquiry of the disciplines. Framed as especially appropriate for research universities, IGL has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
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Carstens, Lisa; Howell, Joyce Bernstein – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
The term "assessment" sends shivers down academic spines. For faculty, it signals marching orders from external parties who may or may not appreciate the subtle and not always quantifiable value of faculty efforts. For administrators, it means the dual challenge of recalibrating internal measures to meet external mandates but also…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Change, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Improvement
Virginia State Council of Higher Education, Richmond. – 1983
This report presents the results of a review of all significant instructional efforts in the computer science discipline in Virginia institutions of higher education, with emphasis on those whose instructional activities constitute complete degree programs. The report is based largely on information provided by the institutions in self-studies. A…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Computer Science Education, Data Processing, Degree Requirements