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Reba A. Wissner – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
This chapter is a case study of the first and only public musicology program in the United States and how the program's courses embed the teaching of digital literacy. Suggestions for adapting and implementing some of the activities in disciplines outside of music are provided.
Descriptors: College Students, Music Education, Technological Literacy, Learning Activities
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Ghani, Shehzad; Taylor, Maurice – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021
This article views student engagement through the lens of a university wide blended learning initiative. Using the Community of Inquiry framework, student voices help us understand how professors and the institution can increase active learning. Attention is also given to the development of higher order thinking skills as a means of increasing…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, Blended Learning, Active Learning
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Major, Claire – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020
This chapter considers the essential elements of collaborative learning, reviews research supporting the efficacy of this instructional practice, and argues that students can be more or less active according to the structure of the collaborative task.
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, College Students, Teaching Methods
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Zawilinski, Lisa – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2022
This chapter examines specific Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, guidelines, and checkpoints that support the removal of barriers to reading to learn efforts. The chapter will also offer practical examples of relevant curricular moves to support student learning from texts.
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Teaching Methods, Barriers
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Carle, Myriam S.; Deng, Jacky M.; Huang, Denzel; Lapierre, Keith R.; Mesnic, Natalie; Bodé, Nicholas E.; Featherstone, Ryan B.; Ingram, Quinn; O'Connor, Emily K.; Roberge, Sebastien; Roy, Kevin; Veilleux-Deschênes, Joëlle; Znotinas, Annie; Flynn, Alison B. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2021
This article focuses on the benefits and barriers to engaging students as partners in educational projects.
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Cooperation, Educational Resources, Learning Experience
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Gentile, Amber L.; Budzilowicz, Mary – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2022
This chapter provides actionable strategies through the description of a crosswalk model explicitly connecting Universal Design for Learning, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy, and Mindset. The influences of Social Emotional Learning and Trauma Informed Practices are explored.
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, College Students, Access to Education, Culturally Relevant Education
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Bowman, Nicholas A.; Levtov, Anat H. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020
Growth mindset is an important psychological factor for effective instruction. This chapter discusses how mindset affects learning and achievement, offering a wealth of tools that can help students and instructors understand and utilize a growth mindset.
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Development, Learning
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Maxwell, Katia; Pittman, Shannon – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2022
The world of Higher Education has been evolving for some time. From only offering classes in a traditional face-to-face format, to correspondence classes, higher education now has the ability to teach fully online courses and programs. However, no matter how classes are taught, the primary goal in Higher Education has always been to educate…
Descriptors: Transfer Students, College Students, Experiential Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Abrahams, Lynn – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This chapter explores how college students with diagnosed learning differences develop identity within changing relationships with the family system. Implications highlight the crucial roles of context and relationship in transformative learning.
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, College Students, Learning Problems, Family Characteristics
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Lichtinger, Einat; Kaplan, Avi – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
"Academic self-regulation" refers to the self-generated, reflective, and strategic engagement in academic tasks (Zimmerman, 2000). Self-regulation is crucial for academic success, particularly in higher education, where students are required to take increased responsibility for their learning and where the diversity of courses and activities may…
Descriptors: College Students, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement
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Lee, Virginia S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) promotes the acquisition of new knowledge, abilities, and attitudes through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues, for which there often is no single answer. IGL appeals to a range of institutions of higher education seeking variously to capitalize on the research…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Inquiry, Higher Education
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Karabenick, Stuart A.; Dembo, Myron H. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
Help seeking is an important developmental skill, a form of behavioral, or social, self-regulation employed by cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally engaged learners. Help seeking is unique among learning strategies as it may imply that learners are incapable of task completion or satisfactory performance without assistance, which can be…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, College Students
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Saville, Bryan K.; Lawrence, Natalie Kerr; Jakobsen, Krisztina V. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
There are many ways to construct classroom-based learning communities. Nevertheless, the emphasis is always on cooperative learning. In this article, the authors focus on three teaching methods--interteaching, team-based learning, and cooperative learning in large, lecture-based courses--that they have used successfully to create classroom-based…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Lecture Method, Communities of Practice, Classroom Environment
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Svinicki, Marilla D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
In 1995 when "New Directions" issue No. 63, "Understanding Self-Regulated Learning," was published, the issue editor, Paul Pintrich, was one of the leaders in studying how college students learn and what helps or hinders them during the process. His contributions to the field have been tremendous and very significant both theoretically and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Bembenutty, Hefer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2011
This chapter highlights the major contributions of this volume on self-regulation of learning and provides new directions for cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work that could serve to facilitate self-regulation of learning in postsecondary education. "Self-regulation of learning" refers to learners' beliefs about their ability to engage in…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Learning, Self Control, Self Efficacy
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