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Angelica Acevedo Guanzon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study thoroughly explores the relationships between the challenges faced by students and the alternative problem-solving strategies employed. By analyzing these connections, the research aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of how students address difficulties in science learning and the adaptive strategies they apply. Through this…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
Ladell-Thomas, Julie – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2012
Although academic librarians have been teaching information literacy online for years, the increasing number of nontraditional students learning online has motivated many librarians to develop Web-based tools that help students independently learn to identify, access, evaluate, and use information resources in the online environment. Adult…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students
Hwang, Isabel; Tam, Michael; Lam, Shun Leung; Lam, Paul – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
Dynamic concepts are difficult to explain in traditional media such as still slides. Animations seem to offer the advantage of delivering better representations of these concepts. Compared with static images and text, animations can present procedural information (e.g. biochemical reaction steps, physiological activities) more explicitly as they…
Descriptors: Physiology, Animation, Use Studies, Supplementary Reading Materials
Taylor, Kari; Haynes, Carolyn – About Campus, 2008
Recognizing the mismatch between a philosophy of holistic development and evaluation focused on external, quantitative criteria led Miami University's Honors and Scholars Program to revise its curriculum in accordance with student development theory. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Student Development, Learning Strategies, Curriculum Development, Honors Curriculum

Haggard, Martha Rapp – Reading Teacher, 1988
Recognizes that many teachers feel uncomfortable with the Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA). Describes and explains the steps, or elements, of the DRTA and suggests ideas for preparing and implementing this instructional strategy. (NH
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Instructional Development, Instructional Improvement
Crawford, D. G.; Crawford, G. C. – 1983
While the improvement of authoring systems and the development of knowledge-based rather than frame-oriented computer assisted instruction (CAI) systems are useful, a significant part of the courseware development problem lies in the inability of teachers (subject matter experts) to prepare material that promotes effective, efficient learning.…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Technology
Di Vesta, Francis J.; Rieber, Lloyd P. – Educational Communication and Technology Journal, 1987
Discusses the contributions that cognitive psychology can make to the development of instructional designs and systems. Instructional design models for training and educational applications are described, potentials of cognitive engineering are reviewed, and possibilities for improved instructional design are presented, including objectives, kinds…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Educational Objectives, Evaluation
Roueche, Susanne D., Ed. – Innovation Abstracts, 1990
This series of one- to two-page abstracts highlights a variety of innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the community college. Topics covered in the abstracts include: (1) academic partnerships pairing "high-risk" students with a concerned faculty member, counselor, or administrator; (2) teacher-to-teacher learning partnerships; (3)…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Copeland, Leon L., Sr.; Gray, Robert C. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 2002
Through the competitive proposal process, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) received a three-year Teacher Enhancement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in March 1998. The Maryland State Department of Education provided additional funds for the grant. The purpose of the grant was to administer the Technology Education…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Professional Training, Technological Literacy, Grants

McFarland, Jacqueline – Social Studies, 1998
Outlines what it means to be "learning disabled" and presents a number of symptoms of learning disabilities. Suggests means by which social studies teachers can reach learning disabled students and help them to learn, including alternative assignments, guided notes, unit organizers, cooperative learning, and active response activities. (DSK)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Roueche, Suanne D., Ed. – Innovation Abstracts, 1997
The 52 abstracts in these 29 serial issues describe innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the community college. Sample topics include a checklist for conference presenters, plan to retain students, faculty home page, improvements in writing instruction, cooperative learning, support for high risk students, competitive colleges and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Community Colleges

Barton, Keith C. – Social Education, 1997
Presents two composite and contrasting cases of how elementary school children are taught history. One student receives instruction heavily slanted toward institutional political history, while the other learns these concepts incorporated throughout social history illustrated with different types of learning activities. Suggests workable…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Course Content, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Roueche, Suanne D., Ed. – Innovation Abstracts, 1992
This series of 30 one- to two-page abstracts covering 1992 highlights a variety of innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the community college. Topics covered in the abstracts include: (1) faculty recognition and orientation; (2) the Amado M. Pena, Jr., Scholarship Program; (3) innovative teaching techniques, with individual abstracts…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Roueche, Suanne D., Ed. – Innovation Abstracts, 1991
This series of one- to two-page abstracts highlights a variety of innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the community college. Topics covered in the abstracts include: (1) internationalizing the curriculum through focused interaction; (2) improving the small group approach to learning; (3) writing across the curriculum with early essay…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Roueche, Suanne D., Ed. – Innovation Abstracts, 1996
The 29 abstracts in this volume describe innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the community college. Topics covered include the following: (1) strategies for providing management training to faculty and staff; (2) activities to help developmental mathematics students overcome obstacles to success in mathematics; (3) incorporating…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Community Colleges
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