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Eastmond, J. Nicholls; Louviere, John; Quinn, Kerry – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2008
This article describes how a team of instructional support personnel redesigned an online graduate course in research methods for pre-service and in-service teachers. The course has been taught annually each spring semester since it went online in 2000. The major revision in the online version of the class was to use a series of path simulations,…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Research Methodology, Graduate Study, Online Courses
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Angeli, Charoula; Valanides, Nicos – Science Education International, 2008
In a science education methods course, groups of students were initially involved in a face-to-face discussion and were sensitized about certain conflicting claims regarding a puzzling observation or set of observations. They were then instructed to resolve their conflicting ideas through electronic discussion. Students had two weeks time to…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Education Courses, Computer Mediated Communication