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Ortega-Sánchez, Delfín, Ed. – IntechOpen, 2022
This book provides theoretical answers, applied methodological models, and didactic experiences that seek to reflect and analyze the potentialities and challenges of the active learning concept in STEAM disciplines and social sciences education. It also contributes to the understanding, intervention, and resolution of contemporary social problems…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Social Sciences, College Programs, Art Education
Osbor, Debra S. – National Career Development Association, 2016
This second edition not only provides strategies for delivering key components of career development in enthusiastic, innovative, and more meaningful ways, it covers updated standards and new technologies. An entire chapter offers 50+ active learning strategies useful for beginning and intermediate instructors of undergraduate and graduate career…
Descriptors: Career Development, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Workshops
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O'Brien, Kelsey; Forte, Michele; Mackey, Thomas P.; Jacobson, Trudi E. – Open Praxis, 2017
This article examines metaliteracy as a pedagogical model that leverages the assets of MOOC platforms to enhance self-regulated and self-empowered learning. Between 2013 and 2015, a collaborative teaching team within the State University of New York (SUNY) developed three MOOCs on three different platforms--connectivist, Coursera and Canvas--to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Self Management
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Mohrweis, Lawrence C.; Shinham, Kathe M. – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
This study illustrates an active learning approach using instant feedback cards in the first course in accounting. The objectives of this study are to (1) describe instant feedback cards and (2) show how this tool, when used in an active learning environment, can enhance learning. We examined whether students exposed to immediate feedback…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Active Learning, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies
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Friesem, Yonty; Quaglia, Diane; Crane, Ed – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2014
The Elizabeth Thoman Archive at the Harrington School of Communication and Media, University of Rhode Island, has the last complete kit of one of the milestones in the early chronology of media literacy, the 1972 Media Now curriculum. This curriculum was the first of its kind, using self-contained lesson modules that were part of a larger series…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Curriculum Research, Educational History, Curriculum Design
Randall, Daniel L.; Johnson, Jacquelyn C.; West, Richard E.; Wiley, David A. – Educational Technology, 2013
In this article, the authors present an example of a project-based course within a studio environment that taught collaborative innovation skills and produced an open-source project management textbook for the field of instructional design and technology. While innovation plays an important role in our economy, and many have studied how to teach…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Open Source Technology, Program Administration, Textbook Publication
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Moskovich, Yaffa; Sharf, Simha – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2012
This study aims to examine and demonstrate practices, elements and techniques employed by the action research method. It examines the use of films in sociology instruction in college, and the influence of films on the development of students' understanding of human nature. Based on the professional experience of the authors films utilize and…
Descriptors: Films, Educational Technology, Active Learning, Instructional Materials
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Muncy, James A.; Eastman, Jacqueline K. – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
Classroom response systems (CRS), also called student/audience response systems or clickers, have been used by business instructors, particularly in larger classes, to allow instructors to ask students questions in class and have their responses immediately tabulated and reported electronically. While clickers have typically been used to measure…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Environment, Marketing, Classroom Techniques
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Cline, Melinda; Guynes, Carl S.; Simard, Karine – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
The primary challenge of project management is to achieve the project goals and objectives while adhering to project constraints--usually scope, quality, time and budget. The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation and integration of resources necessary to meet pre-defined objectives. Project management software provides an active…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Active Learning, Computer Software, Assignments
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Edmond, Tracie; Tiggeman, Theresa – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
This paper discusses incorporating collaborative learning into accounting classes as a response to the Accounting Education Change Commission's call to install a more active student learner in the classroom. Collaborative learning requires the students to interact with each other and with the material within the classroom setting. It is a…
Descriptors: Accounting, Cooperative Learning, Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Vengerov, Alexander – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
The growing sensitivity of various systems and parts of industry, society, and even everyday individual life leads to the increased volume of changes and needs for adaptation and learning. This creates a new situation where learning from being purely academic knowledge transfer procedure is becoming a ubiquitous always-on essential part of all…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Educational Change, Organizational Change
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Scofield, Barbara W.; Dye, Wilma – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
On the first day of Principles of Accounting classes, students learn the fundamental accounting equation from which all financial accounting practice emerge. The accounting equation is the criterion by which companies are valued and by which company performance is measured. This activity simplifies assets, liabilities, and owners' equity to the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Educational Principles, Fundamental Concepts, Equations (Mathematics)
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Morales J., María V.; Morales J., María A. – English Language Teaching, 2017
This study describes the presence of professional skills found in poster session proposals in order to consider the use of poster sessions for developing the skills required by the 2012 Ecuadorian Standards for English teachers, specifically related to the fifth domain professionalism. Thirteen poster session proposals for a national English…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Visual Aids, Skill Analysis, National Standards
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Castillo, Rigoberto; Díaz Cortés, Natalia R. – HOW, 2012
This article deals with teacher identity development of students enrolled in the teacher training program. The authors, who advocate inquiry-based teaching practices, propose reflective and organizational strategies to support these. In order to gain insights into the experiences and values of student-teacher-researchers (STRs here on) to shape a…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Research, Professional Identity
El-Khawas, Elaine – 1995
For the 12th year, a national survey of changes in the academic and administrative practices of American colleges and universities was undertaken. Senior administrators at 407 colleges and universities completed and returned survey questionnaires (80 percent of a sample of 506). Responses were statistically weighted so that results were…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, College Administration, College Faculty