Task-based learning (TBL) is an educationally sound, effective, and efficient strategy for delivering relevant education. In TBL, the tasks of the health care professional provide the context and the focus for learning, but are not the objective of the student's learning. Students gain a basic understanding of the principles of health and disease…

Presents three tenets from the research for adult literacy instruction: (1) improvement in one literacy skill should mirror improvement in others; (2) instructors should facilitate, not control, learning; and (3) students should be able to transfer classroom learning to their daily language encounters. Includes ideas for application. (CH)

The use of Internet tools in economic pedagogy is growing. This paper attempts to investigate the impact of Internet tools, as a supplement to traditional teaching methods, on teaching and learning and attempts to answer the question why there are gaps between potential and reality of using Internet tools in economics education, based on our…

In this article Lynne Meiring and Nigel Norman focus on the notion of entitlement and the demands this has made on schools and teachers to cater for the needs of a wide range of pupils previously denied an experience of foreign languages. In order to enable all pupils to realise their potential, facilities and strategies have to be reviewed and…

Used video technology to help social work students in aging see, hear, and feel a pertinent issue in social gerontology. Students involved in self-directed experiential learning situations with an older person documented these situations on videotape. Learner and subject together became teachers, communicating their understandings and perceptions…

This document focuses on the difficulties associated with offering college students an introductory course in human services. The need for an introductory course to provide a survey of the field, to offer students a chance for self-exploration, and to lay the groundwork for career choice and an understanding of the vast array of human services is…

Discusses obstacles and problems that confront older hearing-impaired students in the classroom at colleges and universities, where their numbers are increasing, and where these impairments may detract from their receiving maximum benefit from their educational experiences. Presents possible management solutions. (Author/KS)