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Sharing and Promoting Disciplinary Competences for University Teaching in English: Voices from the University of Jyväskylä Language Centre's TACE Programme
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Westerholm, Kirsi; Räsänen, Anne – Research-publishing.net, 2015
The internationalisation of universities often means that the language of learning and teaching needs to be changed -- at present most commonly to English. Apart from English-speaking countries, then, most European universities offer their degree programmes in a language that is not the first language of either the students or the teachers. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Global Approach, Masters Programs
De-Lecturing: A Case Study of the Implementation of Small Group Teaching.
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Jackson, M. W.; Prosser, M. T. – Higher Education, 1985
The reduction of lecture time and its replacement with small group sessions in an undergraduate political theory course is described and possible problems associated with this kind of instructional change are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Higher Education
Cooperative Learning versus Traditional Lecture Format: A Preliminary Study.
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Thompson, Marceline; Pledger, Linda – 1998
The purpose of this study was to conduct a preliminary examination of the efficacy of two teaching methodologies: traditional lecture versus cooperative learning. A sample of 50 students was taken from a mid-size, southern, metropolitan university. The subjects were divided into 2 groups: 27 who learned course material via the traditional lecture…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning
Medical Student Perception of the Academic Environment: A Prospective Comparison of Traditional and Problem-Based Curricula.
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Lieberman, Steven A.; Stroup-Benham, Christine A.; Peel, Jennifer L.; Camp, Martha G. – Academic Medicine, 1997
A study investigated medical students' expectations of the medical school environment and opinions of their academic experience in three areas (teaching/administration, psychological aspects of student life, intellectual climate) near the end of their first year in two parallel curricula: a problem-based learning program and a traditional…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Educational Environment, Educational Strategies
Less Lecturing, More Learning.
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Jackson, M. W.; Prosser, M. T. – Studies in Higher Education, 1989
The results of a three-year project introducing small-group experiential learning techniques into a traditionally structured first-year lecture course are presented. Ways to introduce the techniques into large classes with no increase in resources are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Size, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis
An Experimental Design to Study the Effectiveness of PBL in Higher Education, in First Year Science Students at a University in Peru, South America
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Alcazar, Maria Teresa Moreno; Fitzgerald, Victoria Landa – College Quarterly, 2005
An experimental study was designed to study the effectiveness of Problem Based Learning (PBL) in the context of higher education in an urban-city university in Lima, Peru. In the fall semester of 2004, eleven sections of Chemistry 1 were offered to first year students in the College of Science at this University. In six of these eleven sections…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Group Activities, Problem Based Learning, Program Effectiveness
Classtalk: A Classroom Communication System for Active Learning.
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Dufresne, Robert J.; And Others – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1996
College physics teachers describe their experience using a computer-based classroom communication system that facilitates presentation of questions for small-group work, collection of student answers, and display of histograms showing how the class answered, all feeding into classwide discussions. The technique engages students in active learning…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Communication, College Instruction, College Science