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Novak, Julia; Kensington-Miller, Barbara; Evans, Tanya – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
This paper describes students' perspectives of a one-off flipped lecture in a large undergraduate mathematics service course. The focus was on calculating matrix determinants and was designed specifically to introduce debate and argumentation into a mathematics lecture. The intention was to promote a deeper learning and understanding through…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Computation
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Arvanitakis, James – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
In this article I examine the role of the contemporary university in light of the mass increase in class sizes that has occurred on an international scale. While we may look nostalgically back to a time when lectures numbered a few hundred students and tutorials had as few as ten, massification at undergraduate level is an inescapable fact of…
Descriptors: College Role, Class Size, Large Group Instruction, Lecture Method
Onu, V. C.; Eskay, M. K.; Obiyo, N. O.; Igbo, J. N.; Ezeanwu, A. B. – Online Submission, 2012
This descriptive survey research studied innovation for transformation in Nigeria university education: implications for the production of critical and creative thinkers. Thus, students' perception of knowledge generation and dissemination by university lecturers were elicited. From a population of registered students in a Nigerian university, 200…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Sampling
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Franz, Annaliese K. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2012
This work describes efforts to incorporate and evaluate the use of a YouTube writing assignment in large lecture classes to personalize learning and improve conceptual understanding of chemistry through peer- and self-explanation strategies. Although writing assignments can be a method to incorporate peer- and self-explanation strategies, this…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Video Technology, Multimedia Instruction, Organic Chemistry
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Crawford, Barbara A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
This study examined the knowledge, beliefs and efforts of five prospective teachers to enact teaching science as inquiry, over the course of a one-year high school fieldwork experience. Data sources included interviews, field notes, and artifacts, as these prospective teachers engaged in learning how to teach science. Research questions included…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mentors, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes
Timpson, William M.; Burgoyne, Suzanne – Atwood Publishing, 2002
The authors assert that teachers are inherently performers and as such, techniques from the stage enhance and expand a teacher's ready repertoire of discipline-based content. Using performance theory, the authors demonstrate how an educator can transform ordinary classroom experiences into occasions that attract and engage students. In this second…
Descriptors: Lighting, Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Lecture Method
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Blackey, Robert – Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, 1997
Maintains that the lecture method in history can still function as an effective means of instruction if approached with a critical perspective. Outlines creative and engaging approaches for the history lecture and specific suggestions for organization, delivery, and content coverage. (MJP)
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Creative Teaching, Educational Strategies, History Instruction
Minor, Harold D., Ed. – 1968
This guide to creative procedures for improving teaching adult church groups deals with the following: (1) steps in planning for instructional and learning experiences in adult groups; (2) techniques for admitting new ideas into a class; (3) using personal creativity through such means as role-playing, real-life experiences, brainstorming,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Creative Teaching, Evaluation Methods
Mitchell, Vicki L. – Innovation Abstracts, 1984
While researching the lives of well-known artists for a new unit in an art survey course, the instructor developed the idea of dressing in costume and presenting their lives in the first person. The primary goal of each lecture is to provide memorable information about the artist; a secondary goal is to integrate the social and political climate…
Descriptors: Acting, Art Education, Art History, Artists