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Jacobs, Joanne – Education Next, 2014
This article describes an Oakland Unified schools program of "blended learning" that is designed to reach students who are academically all over the map. Blended learning combines brick-and-mortar schooling with online education "with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace" of learning. The program…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Tomkinson, Bland; Hutt, Ian – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate online problem-based learning (PBL) as a route to achieving sustainability education using sponsored projects. Design/methodology/approach: The Royal Academy of Engineering sponsored project at Manchester; to foster education in sustainability through inter-disciplinary problem-based approaches,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Sustainability, Pilot Projects
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Smith, Christopher J. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2010
In 1998, as part of what was then Zambia's Department of Technical Education and Vocational Training's (DTEVT) human resources capacity building initiative, under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Vocational Training (MSTVT), donor funding was secured to provide degree-level training for key teachers and managers within the technical…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Pilot Projects, Adult Vocational Education, Bachelors Degrees
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Ng'ambi, Dick; Brown, Irwin – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
While supplementation of face-to-face (F2F) teaching with online engagement is increasingly common, the educators' challenge of teaching F2F personalities and facilitating online personalities has not been widely explored. In this paper, we report on a project in which 1st-year students attended F2F sessions and engaged with an anonymous online…
Descriptors: Internet, Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology
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Hoven, Debra; Palalas, Agnieszka – CALICO Journal, 2011
An exploratory study conducted at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada between 2007 and 2009 investigated language learning with mobile devices as an approach to augmenting ESP learning by taking learning outside the classroom into the real-world context. In common with findings at other community colleges, this study identified inadequate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Listening Skills, Immigrants
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Scida, Emily E.; Saury, Rachel E. – CALICO Journal, 2006
The University of Virginia's (UVA) Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese created two new hybrid courses for elementary Spanish which supplement 3 hours a week of class time with 2 hours of mandatory, web-based practice activities to respond to a need to make better use of personnel resources at the university. This article reports on the…
Descriptors: Internet, Drills (Practice), Teaching Assistants, Pilot Projects