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Sclater, Madeleine – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2016
This article uses published research to explore how Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) can help to sustain learning communities to engage in creative exploration and open investigation. It then draws on this research to ask: how could we use TEL to support pedagogies of socio-ecological sustainability in the Art and Design education community?…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Sustainability, Communities of Practice
Levy, P.; Aiyegbayo, O.; Little, S. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
This paper explores the relationship between practitioners' pedagogical purposes, values and practices in designing for inquiry-based learning in higher education, and the affordances of the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) as a tool for creating learning designs in this context. Using a qualitative research methodology, variation was…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Inquiry, Active Learning, Higher Education
Shi, Fuqian; Wei, Jincai – International Education Studies, 2008
In the current teaching activities on curriculum, teachers taught all kinds of computer language at the most of the time. Students also focus on a variety of examinations, but the real time to train students' independent software developing skill is very limited. This has resulted in the students only to copy other people's systems design ideas,…
Descriptors: Programming, Creative Thinking, Creative Development, Science Activities
Law, Edmond Hau-Fai; Joughin, Gordon; Kennedy, Kerry J.; Tse, Harrison; Yu, Wai Ming – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This study sought to explore the teaching practices of lecturers within one department of a university-level institute of education in Hong Kong. A sample of 19 teachers were interviewed in the study. Short interview schedules were designed to elicit teachers' descriptions of how they taught and the thinking behind their pedagogical practices. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Teacher Educators, Schools of Education

Hillocks, George, Jr. – College English, 1982
Proposes three basic strategies of inquiry essential to good writing and reports the results of studies on these strategies. (JL)
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Higher Education, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
Wess, Robert C. – 1981
This paper presents a narrative account of how the process of discovery pertained to a college instructor's experience in teaching writing, offering it as a potential methodology for other teachers to consider in their own and their students' writing. The first two parts of the paper illustrate the process of primary and secondary invention in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Faculty, Discovery Processes, Higher Education

Vidler, Derek C.; Levine, Jonathan – College Student Journal, 1979
Previews research on motivational effects of discovery learning, and argues that, although there is general theoretical support for the view that discovery learning methods are superior to expository teaching methods in terms of generating intrinsic motivation, it is unclear whether intrinsic or extrinsic explanations account better for observed…
Descriptors: Children, College Students, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
Morgan, Gordon D. – 1985
This booklet can help college instructors breathe life into sociology classes by showing students how sociology is "done" in the real world. Twenty-nine exercises demonstrate to students how data are collected, how data are used to support or refute ideas, how data are interpreted, and the questions raised by different methods of research. The…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Culture, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
Johnson, Sabina Thorne – 1980
Prewriting involves the entire period of time (and necessary activities) which extends between knowing that one is going to write on something and knowing that one has found something specific and substantial to say about it. In classical rhetoric, prewriting is expressed by such terms as "inventio" (whereby the writer discovers ideas to…
Descriptors: College English, Creativity, Discovery Processes, Higher Education
Perrin, Carl Richard – 1973
The purpose of this study was to devise and test an approach to teaching composition that emphasized discovery, structure, writer's voice, and revision. The assumptions were that to write effectively the student must have a significant idea, that the idea must exist in some specific form, and that the human voice of the writer must come through…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Creative Writing, Discovery Processes, Doctoral Dissertations
Burnett, Collins W. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1974
Teachers should not only want students to learn from course experiences, but should want him or her to start to learn how to begin lifelong learning. (PG)
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Education, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Fassler, Joan – Improving College and University Teaching, 1976
Some major learning theory principles are reviewed and suggestions are made for integrating them into the process of education at the college or graduate school level. The theories deal with reinforcement, behavior modification, reactive inhibition, cognitive maps, incidental learning, retroactive inhibition, proactive inhibition, and spontaneous…
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Learning Theories
Ward, Veronica; Orbell, John – Political Science Teacher, 1988
Presents a way of teaching the scientific method through studying the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Asserting that Sherlock Holmes used the scientific method to solve cases, the authors construct Holmes' method through excerpts from novels featuring his adventures. Discusses basic assumptions, paradigms, theory building, and testing. (SLM)
Descriptors: Discovery Processes, Higher Education, Novels, Philosophy

Schultz, Emeric – Biochemical Education, 1997
Argues that more attention should be given to teaching students how to learn the rudiments of specific metabolic pathways. This approach describes a unique way of learning the glycolytic pathway in stepwise fashion. The pedagogy involves clear rote components that are connected to a set of generalizations that develop and enhance important…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Biology, Concept Formation, Discovery Processes

Holmberg, Carl B. – Communication Education, 1981
Discusses Richard McKeon's architectonic productive art method and its application to the pedagogy of invention. (Defines architectonic productive art as a systematic method for recognizing the organizing principles in the inquired subject which is itself an organizing system.) (PD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Discovery Processes, Higher Education