Despite the emergence of collaborative project-based learning in higher education settings, how it can be supported has received little attention. We noted the positive impact of socially shared metacognitive regulation on students' collaboration processes. The purpose of this study was to present a framework for the design and implementation of…

Collaborative project-based learning is well established as a component of several courses in higher education, since it seems to motivate students and make them active in the learning process. Collaborative Project-Based Learning methods are demanded so that tutors become able to intervene and guide the students in flexible ways: by encouraging…

The author, a Boston television consumer news reporter, describes her work and shares with home economics teachers two video scripts she has used on news broadcasts. Students may produce these two presentations and then be encouraged to conduct their own investigations and report them through closed-circuit television. (AJ)

The goal of the video in the classroom video project at an elementary school was to increase student achievement by making learning come alive to students, have learners actively engaged in the process of learning through authentic learning experiences, and make that learning have meaning to their lives. Fifth grade students created group video…

The Action-Communication-Expression program, an extension of a speech communication class in a Houston (Texas) high school, involves visual and concrete communication, such as photography, script writing, and filmmaking. Students in two speech classes work in small groups of four or five, independently of the teacher, after receiving initial…

The monograph is intended to demonstrate how the production of a slidetape show can become a multidisciplinary exercise that helps students become creative users of information, rather than passive receivers of information. Career education and audiovisual media instruction are both cross-disciplinary in nature and can be infused into existing…