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Southern Regional Education Board, 2005
Learning objects are digital content that can be used and reused for teaching and learning. They are modular, flexible, portable, transferable (interoperable) and accessible. Learning objects may be used to teach a particular skill or concept, or to provide stimulating thinking and learning experiences for the teacher or student. A learning…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Metadata, Educational Media, Instructional Materials
VanBalkom, W. D. – Education Canada, 1991
Addresses how faculties of education in Alberta respond to the need to prepare teachers for the challenges of teaching in an ethnically and culturally diverse society. Multiculturalism can be introduced through special courses or infused across the curriculum. Finds that, although most universities offer some courses associated with…
Descriptors: Course Content, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Markel, Mike; Wilson, Kevin S. – Technical Communication Quarterly, 1996
Uses a case-study approach to describe and analyze the effects of emphasizing design principles in a technical communication course. Looks at student assignments and at student self-evaluative comments about their assignments. Suggests that focusing on design principles can help students improve the organization and design of their documents. (PA)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Course Content, Design, Higher Education

Gable, Eileen M. – Optometric Education, 2001
Describes the innovative content and structure of an introductory course on clinical patient care at the Illinois College of Optometry. Critiques its success based on student grades and feedback, concluding that it was successful in imparting skills of data analysis but had minimal impact on students' ability to empathize with patients. (EV)
Descriptors: Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation
Norwich Regional Vocational Technical School, CT. – 1980
Responding to a Small Business Administration statement that technical school graduates lack knowledge of business principles, the Norwich (Connecticut) Regional Vocational Technical School conducted a course in small business ownership/management for all of its seniors. The required course, a fifty-four-hour module, replaced one English,…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Education, Business Skills, Course Content

Deer, C. E.; Harrison, M. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1980
Describes a course in the School of Education at Macquarie University, (Australia). Focusing on curriculum theory and practice as an area of undergraduate academic study, the course covers the process involved in curriculum development, encourages student participation, and emphasizes inductive as opposed to deductive learning. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Course Content, Curriculum, Educational Objectives
Villanueva, Carmelita L.; Arellano-Reyes, Ma. Felicitas – 1976
This paper explores one problem area that hampers the introduction and acceptance of sex education in schools. Specifically, the paper reviews problems related to the human sexuality component of population education programs in the Philippines. Research on the experiences of the Population Education Program (PEP) is discussed, as well as research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Course Content

Marsden, Michael T.; And Others – 1979
This report on a curriculum project incorporating the study of the humanities and mass media is presented in four chapters. The first chapter is an overview and describes the three components of the curriculum project: (1) a new course entitled "Television as Popular Culture," (2) a team-taught course on media theory entitled "The Electric Media,"…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction
Kolacki, Eugene C. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1981
Colleges and universities with teacher preparation programs need to establish reasonable requirements for prospective teachers in planning health education curriculum. Currently, many schools and school districts are conducting inservice health education courses for elementary classroom teachers. Guidelines are given for facilitating inservice…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Teachers, Health Education

Connolly, Ann C.; Van Hoozer, Helen – Nursing Outlook, 1980
When a lecture course seems to be unsatisfactory, a systematic analysis of its content, objectives, and learner characteristics may prove helpful in selecting a more appropriate teaching-learning method. A model for such a process is examined. (CT)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Instructional Design

Higginson, Nan M. – Educational Leadership, 1993
Describes a social studies teacher's efforts to help junior high students deal with perceived problems of sexual harassment in the classroom. With a social worker's assistance, students learned to recognize personal and gender power issues and to distinguish between flirtatious behavior and genuine harassment (MLH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Discussion (Teaching Technique)

Callison, William – NASSP Bulletin, 1981
Four systems for computer-assisted instruction are explained and compared here: the PLATO, the TICCIT, the TRS 80, and the Apple II. (JM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Course Content, Curriculum Development
A Distance Education Program for Teachers of Children with Visual Impairments in the United Kingdom.

Arter, Christine; McLinden, Mike; McCall, Steve – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2001
Distance education is a well-established medium for training specialist teachers of children with visual impairments at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. This article describes the background and organization of the program, analyzes its outcomes, and considers the challenges the program will face in the future. (Contains four…
Descriptors: Course Content, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Bobbitt, Sharon A. – 1993
Information on opportunity to learn can be collected in national surveys primarily in terms of the written curriculum or the real curriculum (what is actually taught). Questions of this sort are asked in several national surveys, with the most comprehensive being in the National Education Longitudinal Survey of 1988. Other national surveys for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Course Content, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection
Mercer, Walter A. – 1980
Five modules were designed for use with preservice teachers to prepare them to work in desegregated schools. The modules are (1) Racism in American Education, (2) The Roles of the State Colleges and Universities, Accrediting Agencies, and Public Schools in School Desegregation Processes, (3) Incorporating Multi-Ethnic Content, (4) Affirming,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Instructional Materials