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The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University
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Elizabeth Losh – MIT Press, 2014
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, tablets, music players, and social networking. Although these two forces seem poised to do battle with each…
Descriptors: MOOCs, College Faculty, Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology
The Intelligence-Friendly Classroom: It Just Makes Sense.
Fogarty, Robin – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
Intelligence-friendly classrooms require a teaching/learning process governed by extant knowledge and theories about developing human beings' intellectual potential. Guidelines are based on setting a safe emotional climate, creating a rich learning environment, teaching the mind-tools and skills of life, developing learners' skillfulness,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Definitions
Post-College Experiences and Epistemology.
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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter – Review of Higher Education, 1994
A longitudinal study of 101 college students investigated the ways in which their college and postcollege experiences fostered development of complexity in their assumptions about knowledge, by emphasizing independent functioning, collaboration, direct involvement in learning, and subjective decisionmaking. Results suggest these experiences be…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Freshmen, College Graduates, College Students