This report comprises a collection of summaries of exploratory efforts by college professors at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation member institutions to develop new and better ways of teaching. Usually these are local experiments aimed at improving the conditions for learning in a specific subject-matter area, but many of the procedures…

DESPITE THE SUBSTANTIAL AND RELATIVELY COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF PRACTICES IDENTIFIED, IT APPEARS THAT JUNIOR COLLEGES, IN GENERAL, ARE DOING LITTLE EXPERIMENTATION IN THE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF FACULTY SERVICES. THIS IS DUE IN PART TO THE FACT THAT UNTIL RECENTLY, THE COLLEGES HAVE HAD LITTLE DIFFICULTY IN RECRUITING FACULTY. ALSO, THE COLLEGES ARE…

Although every student has a right to expect well informed teachers, many college biology instructors cannot keep up with the new findings in their own and related fields. This model program shows a technique demanding continuing faculty education and greater participation by the student in the educative process. Being comprehensive, the model…

This study was an attempt to compare the effectiveness of videotaped segments with that of conventional teaching methods. Students enrolled in business, chemistry, electronics, engineering, and nursing courses at Shoreline Community College (Washington) participated in the study. The Mann-Whitney test for unequal N and T tests was used to…

Purpose: This paper aims to diffuse the concept of a multi-lateral learning process as a means to promote experimental didactics and research (and the cross-fertilization between these two activities) in the field of design of sustainable product-service systems (PSSs) and to consider the university campus as the locus for the design,…