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Padilla Rodriguez, Brenda Cecilia; Armellini, Alejandro – Research in Learning Technology, 2013
While learning is commonly conceptualised as a social, collaborative process in organisations, online courses often provide limited opportunities for communication between people. How do students engage with content-based courses? How do they find answers to their questions? How do they achieve the learning outcomes? This paper aims to answer…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Online Courses, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies
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Despagne, Colette – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
This critical ethnographic case study draws on Indigenous and minority students' process of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Mexico. The study specifically focuses on students who enrolled in a program called "A Wager with the Future." The aim of the study is to identify and understand contributing factors in these…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Mexicans, English (Second Language), Power Structure
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Sanchez, Margarita A. de – Teaching of Psychology, 1995
Maintains that considerable evidence suggests that educators can successfully use knowledge of cognitive development to guide college instruction. Discusses thinking processes as either primarily incidental or deliberate. Contends that separate thinking based on these principles leads to improved critical thinking skills. (CFR)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Critical Thinking