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Meaningful Dialogue in Digitally Mediated Learning for In-Service Teacher Development
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Cramp, Andy – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015
This paper considers the role and development of meaningful dialogue in digitally mediated learning (DML) in UK higher education for teachers. It argues that more research is vital in the field of meaningful dialogue if we are to avoid the risk that pedagogic values in DML become increasingly driven by market forces toward "data vending"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Continuing Education, Electronic Learning
Using Popular Media and a Collaborative Approach to Teaching Grounded Theory Research Methods
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Creamer, Elizabeth G.; Ghoston, Michelle R.; Drape, Tiffany; Ruff, Chloe; Mukuni, Joseph – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2012
Popular movies were used in a doctoral-level qualitative research methods course as a way to help students learn about how to collect and analyze qualitative observational data in order to develop a grounded theory. The course was designed in such a way that collaboration was central to the generation of knowledge. Using media depictions had the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Methods Courses
The Effects of a Teaching Methods Course on Early Childhood Preservice Teachers' Beliefs
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Isikoglu, Nesrin – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2008
This study examines the effectiveness of an educational methods course for changing early childhood preservice teachers' instructional beliefs. The teaching methods course emphasized constructivist teaching principles. Seventy-eight of the early childhood education preservice teachers who were enrolled in this course filled out the Teacher Belief…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
An Exploratory Study of Digital Video Editing as a Tool for Teacher Preparation
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Calandra, Brendan; Gurvitch, Rachel; Lund, Jacalyn – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2008
The authors' purpose was to examine teacher candidates' perspectives of successful teaching through personalized video vignettes. Furthermore, the authors were interested in how participants' written reflections might change as a result of creating these vignettes. This research used mixed-methods within the context of an exploratory multi-case…
Descriptors: Editing, Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
The Virtual Vee Map: A Template for Internet Inquiry
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Coffman, Margaret; Riggs, Leela – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2006
The Virtual Vee Map proved successful in promoting student learning in the areas of inquiry and data analysis using resources and data available on the internet. A postsurvey found that a majority of students enjoyed collecting and interpreting the data to find an answer to their own inquiry question. (Contains 3 tables and 6 figures.)
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Concept Mapping, Internet, Inquiry
Making Theory-Practice Connections in a Social Studies Methods Course: A Case Study.
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van 't Hooft, Mark – 2000
This study investigated whether or not students apply educational theory to practical situations when they are involved in a learning process that starts from their own educational experiences and "Gestalts," the holistic unity of knowledge, feelings, values, and meanings linked to concrete situations encountered before, and colored by…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Classroom Research, Curriculum Development, Data Analysis