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George A. Lengyel; Thaddeus T. Boron III; Ashley M. Loe; Susan Zirpoli – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Homework has been shown to provide positive impacts on student performance at the undergraduate level. Providing an incentive for students to complete homework assignments, however, can be challenging and result in grade inflation or promotion of a mentality where students attempt to collect points rather than use these assignments for feedback…
Descriptors: Homework, Grading, Formative Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
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Baker, Lisa R.; Hitchcock, Laurel Iverson – Journal of Social Work Education, 2017
This article describes the development, implementation, and assessment of a social media assignment using Pinterest as a tool for student engagement and professional development in two undergraduate social work courses. Twenty-one undergraduate students enrolled in Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) courses completed the assignment…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Undergraduate Students, Social Media
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Higbee, Jeanne L.; Schultz, Jennifer L.; Goff, Emily – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2010
This article presents integrated multicultural instructional design (IMID), a new pedagogical model that is responsive to the growing student diversity in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. and throughout the world. This work builds on previous research articles in the "Journal of College Reading and Learning" related to assessing…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Multicultural Education, Instructional Design, College Instruction
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Amaral, Katie E.; Shank, John D. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
Blended learning or hybrid courses that combine face-to-face and online learning are increasingly offered at colleges and universities across the United States, with growing evidence that they can enhance student learning. Their various pedagogies and technologies have prevented acceptance of a single, authoritative model for designing and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Pilot Projects, Online Courses, Course Content
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Severance, Charles; Hanss, Ted; Hardin, Joseph – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2010
This paper describes how we can move from a single Learning Management System sc. as Sakai, Blackboard, Moodle, or Desire2Learn to a cooperating collection of networked learning content and tools. The move from a single silo of functionality to the ability to use tools from anywhere on the web will greatly increase the variety of tools available…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Networks
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Yan, Hanbing; Xiao, Yumin; Wang, Qiyun – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
Modern Educational Technology is a common course in many normal universities in China. The Modern Educational Technology Center (METC) of East China Normal University (ECNU) decided to improve the course for pre-service teachers at the end of 2010. The enhanced course has some additional features, such as emphasising knowledge and skills transfer,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses
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London, Dalton; McIntyre, Elisabeth – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1983
Describes an attempt to design a first-year university French course along lines laid down by researchers associated with the Council of Europe and proponents of the communicative approach. Aspects discussed include approach and objectives, public, materials, activities, and evaluation. (Author/AMH)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content, French, Higher Education
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Benhart, John, Jr. – Journal of Geography, 2000
Describes the instructional method, Client-Life Cycle GIS Project Learning, used in a course at Indiana University of Pennsylvania that enables students to learn with and about geographic information system (GIS). Discusses the course technical issues in GIS and an example project using this method. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Course Content, Educational Strategies, Geography Instruction
Abel, Marie-Helene; Lenne, Dominique; Cisse, Omar – 2002
E-learning leads to changes in the way courses are conceived. Diffused through the Web, course content cannot be the pure transcription of a "classical" course. The students need to personalize it and to access it when they need it (just-in-time). The MEMORAe project aims at applying knowledge management techniques to improve the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Content, Distance Education
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Trentin, Guglielmo; Scimeca, Santi – Distance Education, 1999
Considers the roles and the process that characterize the design of online distance education courses, especially when the online tutors are not real experts in the course content domain. Describes an Italian pilot project that studies the use of Information and and Communication Technologies (ICT) in in-service teacher training. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Content, Distance Education
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Byram, Michael; And Others – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1996
Argues that the ethnographic interview gives teachers an insider's understanding of an aspect of a foreign culture and endows them with the insight to interpret the insider account from an observer's perspective. The article describes materials developed for inservice training and a pilot course that tested them with Irish teachers preparing to…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Class Activities, Course Content, Ethnography
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Cole, Nathan; Thompson, Denise – Teaching History, 2005
Nathan Cole and Denise Thompson have really thought about Key Stage 3. They have been forced to; they now teach it in only two years. The switch to a two-year Key Stage 3 has made them re-evaluate their entire programme of study, and their rationale for teaching history. The result is illuminating. They argue convincingly that social history…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Politics, Social Change, Social Problems
Conatser, Cheryl – 1973
The report describes the implementation and continuation of a family health maintenance program for associate degree nursing students at a community college. Four specific objectives are stated supporting the overall purpose of increasing student awareness of the total health care situation of the family. Implementation of the project, which…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Course Content, Family Health
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Blakely, Richard – College ESL, 1995
Discusses the English Language Fellows (ELF) Program, a pilot project that pairs specially-trained, native-speaking undergraduates with nonnative-speaking (NNS) classmates to study the content of courses that both are taking together. Woven into that study of course content, for the benefit of the NNS students, is the study of language as it is…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, English (Second Language), Fellowships
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Kyle, William C., Jr.; And Others – Science and Children, 1990
Described are the organization, development, and piloting of this K-6 science curriculum program. Results of the pilot study are presented including the improvement in student and teacher attitudes. (CW)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
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