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Visualisation and Gamification of e-Learning and Programming Education
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Olsson, Marie; Mozelius, Peter; Collin, Jonas – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
Courses in virtual learning environments can leave recently enrolled participants in a state of loneliness, confusion and boredom. What course content is essential in the course, where can more information be found and which assignments are mandatory? Research has stated that learner control and motivation are crucial issues for successful online…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Visualization, Electronic Learning, Programming
Analysis of the Learning Styles of Diverse Student Populations and Implications for Higher Education Instructional Change
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Novogrodsky, Dorothy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Higher education is one of the last institutions of learning to embrace the challenge of learner diversity that exists everywhere today (Dunn & Griggs, 2000; Rowley, Lujan, Dolence, 1998). This investigation explored the relationships between perceived preferred instructional strategies and student learning styles of learning-style aware…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, Cognitive Style
The Correlation between Rigor and Relevance Using Pedagogical or Andragogical Instructional Methods in American Business Schools
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Roldan, Alberto – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine and document whether there is a correlation between relevance (applicability) focused courses and rigor (scholarly research) focused courses with pedagogical instructional methods or andragogical instructional methods in undergraduate business schools, and how it affects learning behavior and final course…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Course Content, Methods, Teaching Methods
Disconnections between Teacher Expectations and Student Confidence in Bioethics
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Hanegan, Nikki L.; Price, Laura; Peterson, Jeremy – Science & Education, 2008
This study examines how student practice of scientific argumentation using socioscientific bioethics issues affects both teacher expectations of students' general performance and student confidence in their own work. When teachers use bioethical issues in the classroom students can gain not only biology content knowledge but also important…
Descriptors: Ethics, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Decision Making
Blueprint for Learning: Constructing College Courses to Facilitate, Assess, and Document Learning
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Richlin, Laurie – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2006
Laurie Richlin has been running a workshop on course design for higher education for over fifteen years, modifying and improving it progressively from the feedback of participants, and from what they in turn have taught her. Her goals are to enable participants to appropriately select teaching strategies, to design and create the conditions and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Courses, Instructional Design
The Adjunct Faculty Handbook.
Bianco-Mathis, Virginia, Ed.; Chalofsky, Neal, Ed. – 1996
This book presents 11 author-contributed chapters concerning the role of adjunct college faculty, ways that such faculty members can obtain resources to maximize their effectiveness, and relationships of adjuncts with other faculty and the administration. Chapters have the following titles and authors: (1) "Program Policies and Administration"…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Administrator Role, Class Activities, Cognitive Style