This research motivates to identify the legal education model in the Arab region and Saudi Arabia in particular. It is found that Arab legal system is derived from the Roman law and French models. The French teaching model is spread in the Kingdom through the professors educated from the French law schools. The french model of legal education…

In Fall of 2014, as a result of a Chinese faculty visit to an upstate New York college to observe American pedagogical techniques in teaching information systems, two US faculty members were invited to teach two separate courses at a vocational college in southeast China. The courses to be taught in China were selected by the Chinese faculty and…

The approach of a major historical theorist in Russia, V. O. Kliuchevsky, may be a useful model for the teacher of contemporary. (KM)

Describes a computer-based simulation program used in biology and physics classes in German colleges and universities. Concludes that the use of media in teaching has far-reaching possibilities which must be explored by teachers in higher education. (KC)

Examines a three-tiered class structure: a mass lecture followed by small group instruction followed by student-directed discussion sessions. Course evaluations by staff and students were generally favorable to this approach. Discusses the design of other economically efficient educational processes. For journal availability, see SO 506 073. (JK)

The public science lecture, popular from the 1750s until the 1850s when a social revolution produced a class bound society, has played an important part in the genesis of modern scientific British education. Reasons include factors such as motivation and teaching methods which made audiences very receptive. (RM)

Forms and characteristics of small group physics instruction in the Russian university are examined and in some cases, compared to those used in Britain. Topics discussed include the lecture method, classroom communication during lectures, postlecture discussion, specialized small-audience lectures, problem solving, individual research projects,…

The education system is a failure and must be reexamined. Student teacher relationships and teaching methods must change. In the future, instead of learning by rote, students will have recourse to data banks to obtain the materials to be used as content for the exercise of what Piaget calls operativity. (RM)