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Linder, Kathryn E., Ed.; Hayes, Chrysanthemum Mattison, Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2018
This volume offers the first comprehensive guide to how high-impact practices (HIPs) are being implemented in online environments and how they can be adjusted to meet the needs of online learners. This multi-disciplinary approach will assist faculty and administrators to effectively implement HIPs in distance education courses and online programs.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Online Courses, Technology Uses in Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Mulvaney, Mary Kay, Ed.; Klein, Kim, Ed. – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2013
In our diverse and interconnected world, expanding students' horizons beyond the classrooms and laboratories of home campuses is increasingly important. Even some of the brightest honors students remain naïve to the causes and ramifications of current world events and lack the necessary intercultural skills to become effective ethical leaders with…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Study Abroad, International Education, College Instruction
Rilling, Sarah, Ed.; Dantas-Whitney, Maria, Ed. – Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL), 2009
Adult language learners have specific learning goals that reflect their lives within a global society, and adults negotiate multiple and changing identities throughout their personal, academic, and professional lives. Chapters in "Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond: Adult Learners" highlight how teachers have the ability…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Web Sites, Photography, Student Projects
Wade, Rahima C., Ed. – 2000
This bulletin focuses on the method that teacher/authors use to connect curriculum with community: service-learning. The bulletin's introduction notes that, although service-learning projects can occur within any subject area, they have a particular suitability for the social studies, given the discipline's focus on the skills, values, and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Elementary Secondary Education, School Community Relationship
Cousins, Emily, Ed.; Mednick, Amy, Ed. – 1999
Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) is a framework for comprehensive school improvement that uses the philosophy and pedagogy of Outward Bound to make learning more hands-on, project-based, and adventurous. One of the 10 ELOB design principles is service and compassion. This book by teachers in ELOB schools contains accounts of students'…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
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Badger, Robert L., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2007
As members of the faculty of the same college, the State University of New York at Potsdam, the fifteen contributors to this book have the unique experience of working from the same pool of students in order to explore how to improve teaching, enhance learning, and make the classroom more interesting. Together professors from thirteen different…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Introductory Courses, Sociology, Psychology