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Bolliger, Doris U. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
It has been suggested in the existing literature that the use of constructivist approaches in the educational setting contributes to active learning and knowledge transfer for students. This paper provides an overview of constructivist approaches used in a graduate-level instructional media production course at a midwestern comprehensive…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Educational Media, Constructivism (Learning), Active Learning

Johnson, G. M. – Canadian Journal of Special Education, 1991
This discussion of ecological approaches to special education suggests that the relative neglect of the ecological approach is partially a result of the apparent incompatibility between ecological theory and conventional scientific approaches. It is suggested that ecological theory and positivism may be reconciled by broadening and developing…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Ecological Factors, Educational Environment, Educational Methods
Lewis, Roger – 1993
This paper, written from a British perspective, looks at "new" methods of learning that are transforming higher education teaching and learning and at some issues in quality control that arise from these rapid changes. The author notes that in the past new methods have often mistakenly been hailed as the panacea of current educational problems but…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Instruction, Delivery Systems, Educational Assessment