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Acheson, Lingma Lu – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
Learning is most effective when accompanied by doing. If someone desires to become a baseball player, being told how to play the game, watching others play and even understanding the rules of the game are mostly ineffective if the individual never "swings the bat". This paper outlines the implementation of this method (swinging the bat)…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Experiential Learning, Computer Science Education, Industry
Kröber, Cindy; Münster, Sander – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This project seminar aims at creating and evaluating a manual for interdisciplinary projects as part of a learning process. Working together, pedagogies and students from different disciplines assess tools and recommendations for successful collaborations while developing an app for the cathedral in Freiberg. As part of the project the students…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Seminars, Learning Processes, Cooperative Learning
Laney, James D.; Wimsatt, T. Joy; Moseley, Patricia A. – 1997
This paper focuses on nine inservice elementary teachers who received training in the Youth Empowerment and Self-Sufficiency (YESS)!/Mini-Society program at the beginning of the 1996-97 school year. The purpose of the project was to explore these teachers' impressions of the program before and after program implementation. All subjects…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Walker, Doris McEwen – 1995
Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) School Leadership Project has adopted as a central educational strategy, problem based learning and its sub-model, problems of practice, in its program to prepare school leaders. Problems of practice is an active learning model that involves students in taking responsibility for their learning by immersing…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Administrator Education, Certification, College Instruction
Kopacsi, Rosemarie; Hochwald, Eve – 1998
A collaborative project of Bank Street College and the Newark Public Schools, the New Beginnings initiative was designed to bring about progressive restructuring of kindergarten classrooms. This study used a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the impact of the initiative on curriculum, professional development, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Comparative Analysis, Conflict Resolution