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Sandra McLaren; Eleanor C. R. Green; Marion Anderson; Melanie Finch – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
In the Australian state of Victoria, the city of Melbourne endured the world's longest number of lockdown days, with severe government health orders and travel restrictions in place for extended periods of 2020 and 2021. In common with others, we found the provision of field teaching in introductory geology, structural geology, and volcanology,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Peer Teaching, Geology, Teaching Methods
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Spitzer, Tamar – Childhood Education, 2020
World language teachers are a special breed of teacher. In some cases, traveling and speaking other languages has profoundly changed their lives and they've channeled their passion into a career. In other cases, teachers are from another country, and are passionate about sharing their language and culture with students. World language teachers…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods
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Cowin, Jasmin Bey – International Research and Review, 2020
Virtual and online learning arrived through a "force majeure" (French for "superior force"), the global COVID-19 pandemic. Google Expeditions, Google Arts and Culture and the Merge Cube are classified as simulated learning environments. Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) create simulated learning environments with…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Multisensory Learning
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Starbird, S. Andrew; Powers, Elizabeth E. – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2013
In this article we explore the connection between learning goals, cognitive skill development, and pedagogical strategies. We identify cognitive skills that are important to students of international business, and link them to the pedagogical strategies that support them. The characteristics that impact the effectiveness of international business…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Cognitive Ability, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
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Libbon, Stephanie – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2004
Using task-based exercises that required web searches and online activities, this course introduced non-traditional students to the sights and sounds of the German culture and language and simultaneously to computer technology. Through partner work that required negotiation of the net as well as of the language, these adult beginning German…
Descriptors: Travel, Computer Simulation, Computers, Internet
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de Ramirez, Lori Langer – Learning Languages, 2006
In the author's experience, Colombia is among the most misunderstood Spanish-speaking countries. Most of the news about Columbia involves drug trafficking or guerilla warfare, due to the many social and political problems that face the country. It is rare that the public is informed about the culture and people of this beautiful South American…
Descriptors: Spanish, Travel, Second Language Learning, Language Tests