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Peer reviewedGustafson, Kent L.; Branch, Robert Maribe – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1997
Presents some of the early history of instructional development models; discusses the role of models in instructional development; reviews some of the more influential models; and discusses the possible impact of selected trends on future models of instructional development, including electronic performance support systems and rapid prototyping.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Environment, Futures (of Society), Instructional Development
Peer reviewedKirk, Thomas G., Jr. – RSR: Reference Services Review, 1999
Discusses the history and development of the library instruction movement and of the Association of Research Libraries' Instruction section, especially in relation to course-related instruction at Earlham College. Considers search strategies; teamwork between librarians and faculty; the effects of active learning; use of the World Wide Web; and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Active Learning, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Higher Education
Hunter, Lacy; And Others – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1996
Recounts how Foxfire grew from a high school magazine to a national program that helps others to teach in a student-centered way. The Foxfire approach has proven successful regardless of age and grade level, across the curriculum, and in the most traditional school settings. Describes various workshops, courses, and programs that Foxfire has…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Study, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
Download full textBathurst, Effie G. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
The conservation excursion takes the child out of the schoolroom and into his natural and social environment and helps him to study it and to participate in the conservation of its natural and human resources. The conservation excursion, like any other school journey, is not intended as a substitute for books, magazines, pictures, or any other…
Descriptors: Educational History, Conservation (Environment), Conservation Education, Outdoor Education
Bathurst, Effie G. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1940
In view of increasing concern about the Nation's serious waste of natural resources and the growing interest in a permanent program of conservation education, it is fitting and desirable that schools should be able to secure help from the U.S. Office of Education in introducing the subject into the regular school curriculum. Courses of study and…
Descriptors: School Activities, Natural Resources, Conservation Education, Community Involvement
Browne, Hetty S. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
About 79 per cent of the rural schools in the Southern States have only one teacher. It is evident, therefore, that a plan must be worked out which will enable this single teacher to make her school a factor in the development of the life around it. On November 2, 1910, the Peabody Board appropriated $600 to work out such a plan. It was finally…
Descriptors: Educational History, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Relevance (Education)
