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Johnson, Melissa C. – CEA Forum, 2015
This essay is grounded in the scholarship of teaching and learning and will focus specifically on the ways in which the Harry Potter books highlight the diversity of learning and teaching styles; privilege active experiential learning and problem solving over passive rote learning; and emphasize the benefits of collaboration over competition.…
Descriptors: Literature, Books, Fiction, Teaching Styles
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Porcaro, David S.; Al Musawi, Ali S. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2011
Despite recent investments in and rapid modernization of university campuses in places like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, higher education in the Middle East still faces many obstacles. One of the greatest has been a fundamental disconnect between education and employment, a possible factor contributing to many of the recent riots in the Arab World. In…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Campuses, High Stakes Tests, Arabs