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Alexandra Meister – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2025
In this abstract, I share a field report. It is an administration manager's experience of how solutions to wicked problems can be developed by approaching the task with an action-learning attitude and using democratic methods in a Catholic parish association. In detail, it had to be worked out, how pastoral work can be shaped under the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Catholics, Clergy, Active Learning
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Shook, Carole – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2022
Over the past year, training to better understand diversity in the classroom has risen to the forefront of the minds of administrators and faculty. The purpose of this teaching tip is to provide a benefit to academics by using short, student-reported issues about racial concerns within case story vignettes that focus on microaggressions. These…
Descriptors: Diversity, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Active Learning
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Hancock, Emilie; Franco, Lorraine; Bagley, Spencer; Karakok, Gulden – PRIMUS, 2021
As calculus instruction moves further from lecture-based instruction toward student-centered pedagogy, support services must align with the changing goals for the course. This paper describes the work of a department as they collectively design and redesign a co-requisite Calculus I course, in an effort to better promote students' academic and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Calculus, Social Integration
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Chu, Lisa; Waite, Chelsea – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2023
Nokomis Regional High School, which draws nearly 600 students from eight different towns in rural Maine, has spent 10 years transforming its instructional model to immerse students in meaningful learning experiences that relate to their interests and passions. Project-based learning, interdisciplinary courses, and career exploration units are…
Descriptors: High School Students, School Choice, Rural Schools, Organizational Change
Aslan, Sinem; Reigeluth, Charles M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Learner-centered education has been touted as an improvement over teacher-centered educational systems. However, educators and researchers need to be cautious about its problems, in addition to considering its benefits. The authors set out to identify challenges to learner-centered education through the eyes of educators in a truly…
Descriptors: Learner Controlled Instruction, Performance Factors, Barriers, Interviews
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Sonntag, Gabriela; Ohr, Donna M. – College & Research Libraries, 1996
Presents a model for a course on information literacy that was developed by librarians at California State University at San Marcos. Topics include the role of the library in higher education reform; active learning activities; convincing faculty and administrators of the need for information literacy courses; and future implementation. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Active Learning, Administrator Attitudes, Course Integrated Library Instruction