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Puranen, Pasi; Vurdien, Ruby – Research-publishing.net, 2016
In language learning today, students from different geographical locations are able to interact online in a more authentic environment, share their views with their partners, create profiles as well as build online communities enjoying common interests. With this in mind, this paper examines and reports on a study about how students from two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Profiles, Communities of Practice, Videoconferencing
Braid, Bernice, Ed.; Long, Ada, Ed. – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2010
The decade since publication of "Place as Text: Approaches to Active Learning" has seen an explosion of interest and productivity in the field of experiential education. This monograph presents a story of an experiment and a blueprint of sorts for anyone interested in enriching an existing program or willing to experiment with pedagogy…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Experiential Learning
COOKE, LOT H., JR.; MORINE, JOHN P. – 1966
THIRTY-FOUR PUBLIC SCHOOL GUIDANCE COUNSELORS FROM SIX NEW ENGLAND STATES, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY PARTICIPATED IN AN INSTITUTE TO BECOME ACQUAINTED WITH THE PROBLEMS AND SPECIAL TECHNIQUES INVOLVED IN COUNSELING THE URBAN DISADVANTAGED STUDENT. THE PROGRAM CONSISTED OF LECTURES BY OUTSTANDING AUTHORITIES IN THE FIELD, LIMITED DISCUSSION PERIODS,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth, Guidance Personnel, Institutes (Training Programs)
Hartley, H. O. – 1966
This 1966 Summer Institute for training educational research workers in statistical methodology attempted to convey concepts of statistical and analytic techniques, to provide instruction and experience in the use of high speed computers, and to guide trainees in the selection and application of techniques to their research work. The first session…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Course Descriptions, Educational Researchers, Institutes (Training Programs)
BLAIR, MARGARET; AND OTHERS – 1968
APPROXIMATELY 100 EDUCATORS FROM FIVE STATES AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS PARTICIPATED IN AN INSTITUTE TO HELP INSTRUCTIONAL AND GUIDANCE PERSONNEL IMPROVE THE VOCATIONAL ORIENTATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE PREPARING TO ENTER THE WORLD OF WORK. THE AGENDA CONSISTED OF SPEECHES ON VOCATIONS, GROUP SESSIONS TO DISCUSS VOCATIONAL PROGRAM…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, High Schools, Horticulture, Institutes (Training Programs)
Tuttle, Francis – 1969
Twenty-three instructors participated in an 8-week summer institute to develop their technical competency to teach the second year of a 2-year Technical Education Computer Science Program. Instructional material covered the following areas: (1) compiler languages and systems design, (2) cost studies, (3) business organization, (4) advanced…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science Education, Curriculum, Data Processing
Linn, Elizabeth M.; And Others – 1968
Five dentists, 17 dental assistants, and three dental hygienists participated in the dental assistant teacher training institute held at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 25 to July 21, 1967. Curriculum objectives were based upon analysis of the job of the dental assisting instructor; the following units were chosen to meet the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Course Content, Dental Assistants, Institutes (Training Programs)
Arizona State Univ., Tempe. – 1971
The document traces the activities of the five-week summer institute which provided training for 96 teachers, primarily of migrant and disadvantaged adults in Adult Basic Education. The program activities emphasized: (1) Reading instruction for disadvantaged adults; (2) English as a second language; (3) Motivation and retention of adult learners;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Disadvantaged, English (Second Language)
Tolliver, J. Howard; And Others – 1982
This evaluation report describes a project that used an innovative approach called precision teaching to train personnel who provide services to identified emotionally disturbed, mentally retarded, and cross-categorical children. Precision teaching is a data-based behavioral instructional program which encompasses pinpointing target behaviors,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Emotional Disturbances, Formative Evaluation, Individualized Instruction
Paul, Alice; Meredith, Keith – 1973
The major portion of this report is devoted to a description of the objectives, training strategies, evaluation strategies, and recommendations of the two 1973 summer Institutes for Program Assistants and Field Representatives of the Tucson Early Education Model (TEEM) Program. Within the TEEM program, education is viewed as a continuous process,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Early Childhood Education
Johnson, Brenda K.; Crawley, Frank E., III – 1991
To what degree do teacher participants in one science enhancement institute intend to use the information in the classroom the next fall? What factors assist this extension of learning? What factors detract from teachers applying new knowledge in the classroom? Sixteen second- to eighth-grade science teachers from a physical and life science…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Beliefs, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Long, Elizabeth T. – 1974
In an effort to provide better service for the minority and disadvantaged population of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the public library devised the Developing Awareness of Community Resources Staff Training Institute (DACRI) for its personnel. The goal of the training program was to have each participant gain a working awareness of community resources…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Community Information Services, Community Organizations, Community Resources
Brown, Edward B.; Dutton, Donnie – 1972
Three 2-week Adult Basic Education (ABE) Institutes were conducted in Tennessee during the summer of 1972. The three were an ABE Guidance and Counseling Institute, an ABE Materials and Teaching Institute, and an ABE Reading Institute. Each institute consisted of approximately 30 participants from the various regions of the state, and graduate…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Credit Courses, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Merrill, E.L.; Russell, Wendell H. – 1968
Over a 31-month period from June 1966 to December 1968, the University of Tennessee and Union Carbide Corporation conducted preservice and inservice institutes for 160 industrial education teachers. These institutes carried college credit and covered Mechanical Technology and Drafting, Industrial Electronics Technology, Machine Shop and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Course Content, Curriculum, Experimental Programs
Cade, Dozier C.; Davis, Harold E. – 1968
Major purposes of an institute held July 10-27, 1967 at the Georgia State College were to: (1) develop basic principles of communication similar to those used by the private sector of the economy, (2) develop an understanding of how vocational educators can more effectively work with public news media, (3) develop packages and kits for use by…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Diffusion, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
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