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Direct linkHoskins, Barbara J. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2013
Is distance learning transformational? The author heard this question posed to a panel of faculty members during Distance Education Week activities. After reflecting upon her own students' reaction to her syllabus, her answer to the question changed from an initial, enthusiastic "yes" to a reflective "maybe," given the most favorable environment.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Distance Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods
Dunn, Rita; Honigsfeld, Andrea – Educational Forum, 2013
In this essay, the authors argue that understanding students' learning styles is likely to (a) help teachers recognize the causes of some academic problems, and (b) lead to better planned, differentiated instruction. Learning style, as defined by Dunn and Dunn, is highlighted, and research supporting its effectiveness is outlined. By citing…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Cognitive Style, Academic Achievement, Student Needs
Chessor, Danuta – High Ability Studies, 2012
In this commentary on Ziegler and Phillipson's article, "Towards a Systemic Theory of Gifted Education" (this issue), the author states her opinion that their alternate way of viewing gifted education is pedagogically sound. What Ziegler and Phillipson propose is creating a system where the interaction between action repertoires and the…
Descriptors: Gifted, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Ability Identification
Zhang, Jinghuan; Liu, Guirong; Lin, Chongde – High Ability Studies, 2012
Eight years ago, the authors carried out a study on scientific creativity. Thirty-four eminent scientists, who had gained great creative scientific achievements in five fields--mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography and life science--were chosen and interviewed. In the study, the authors tried to find out what made a person demonstrate…
Descriptors: Gifted, Motivation, Creativity, Educational Change
Van Wylen, David G. L.; Abdella, Beth R. J.; Dickinson, Shelly D.; Engbrecht, Jason J.; Vandiver, Rebecca – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2013
Twenty-first-century biology is inherently interdisciplinary. Every aspect of biology, from molecules to organisms to ecosystems, is richly informed by the physical, mathematical, and computational sciences. It is both an exciting and daunting time for biology educators--exciting because of the vast opportunity for important new discoveries that…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Biology, Unified Studies Curriculum, Case Studies
Hachey, Alyse C. – Knowledge Quest, 2012
School librarians help train students to be effective acquirers, evaluators, and users of ideas and information--a necessary skill for survival in the information-rich society. From this stance, school librarians are definitely caregivers. But the author argues that this does not get to the heart of the matter: Librarianship usually translates…
Descriptors: Caring, Caregivers, Educational Practices, School Libraries
Corrigan, Paul T. – College Teaching, 2011
The author began his first year teaching at an open-enrollment university with the belief that "most students can learn to do intellectual work, if they are only given the opportunity." This belief is inspired by the research on teaching and learning and is rooted in the characteristic idealism of teachers. He had seen the principle borne out in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience, Learner Engagement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
Download full textMcKinney, Kathleen – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
In this essay, I remind readers of the importance of using SoTL work in a range of ways and settings at different levels to increase our impact on student learning as well as institutional and disciplinary cultures. I briefly discuss and illustrate six strategies already in use on which we can build. (Contains 3 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Strategies, Instructional Improvement, Learning Strategies
Donaldson, Moni – Kairaranga, 2012
This article is a position paper, based on, and supported by, the extensive literature on the topic of Maori underachievement in education in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It places emphasis on what underachieving Maori students need to reach their full potential and ways in which educationalists can assist. I am of mixed heritage raised amongst three…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Position Papers
Silver, Debbie – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2011
Basically everything associated with maximizing student engagement, achievement, optimal learning environment, learning zone, and the like can be attributed to the work of Lev Vygotsky (1978). A Russian psychologist and social constructivist, Vygotsky (1896-1934) proposed a concept so fundamental to the theory of motivation that it undergirds…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Constructivism (Learning), Academic Achievement, Educational Environment
Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
In this paper we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
In this paper, we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Peer reviewedViolato, Claudio – Journal of Educational Thought, 1988
Discusses the historical, conceptual, and methodological basis of interactionism, reviews pertinent research, and concludes that conventional ideas of interactionism in psychology (person-by-situation study) and education (aptitude-by-treatment interaction) have caused more confusion than clarity. (DMM)
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Educational Psychology, Educational Theories, Interaction
Peer reviewedReynolds, Maynard C. – Journal of School Psychology, 1985
Describes the author's early educational experiences and details his work in several aspects of school psychology from the 1950s to the present. Discusses special education in the 1950s, early research, gifted education, developments in the 1960s, technical assistance systems and Wang's (1983) Adaptive Learning Environment Models (ALEM). (MCF)
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Educational Research, Federal Programs, History
Renninger, K. Ann; Winegar, Lucien T. – 1985
Relationships such as caretaker-child, therapist-client, and teacher-student can be considered to be expert-novice interactions. In these relationships there is a complementarity between differential constraining of information by an expert and progressive empowerment towards learning of the novice. The expert organizes information for the novice…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
