Electronic learning has advantages (vast information repository, accessibility), but its merits have been oversold and much does not focus appropriately on user needs and learning styles. Finding relevant subject matter is challenging and bandwidth still limits full use of multimedia. (SK)

Investigated whether a professional development session, teachers' learning styles, or an individual's personal appraisal of problem-solving abilities can be indicators of how technology will be integrated into instructional practices. Topics include Kolb's learning styles; the Problem Solving Inventory; and personal control style. (Author/LRW)

Discusses the development of online courses in higher education that can be used to supplement traditional classes. Explains requirements for designing a successful course, including flexibility to accommodate differences in learning styles, textbook connections, and class interaction; and reports results of a course evaluation. (LRW)

Points out the low student achievement in microbiology courses and presents an active learning method applied in an introductory microbiology course which features daily quizzes, cooperative learning activities, and group projects. (Contains 30 references.) (YDS)

Encourages Level 1 students (those taking a subject for the first time at the higher education level) to develop a deeper learning approach. Uses a cooperative learning approach to pose conceptual questions for interactive discussions and changes both teaching method and form of examination paper for a Mechanics module. (Contains 17 references.)…

Discusses distance learning research and describes a study of 399 students at two universities that investigated the role of perceived technology usefulness, technological familiarity and accessibility, reputation, constraints, learning preferences, and demographic factors on prospective receptivity toward distance learning. Considers implications…

Cluster analysis of data on the work-based learning of 407 Dutch vocational students resulted in three styles: (1) focused on doing, with incidental learning (n=117); (2) externally regulated learning (n=114); and (3) self-regulated learning using theory and reflection (n=176). (Contains 43 references.) (SK)

Research into learning and teaching in higher education over the last 25 years has provided a variety of concepts, methods, and findings that are of both theoretical interest and practical relevance. It has revealed the relationships between students' approaches to studying, their conceptions of learning, and their perceptions of their academic…

College students' metacognitive self-assessments before and after tests were examined in relation to personality and study time. Instead of using laboratory learning, this study is the first to use actual classroom learning and testing across a period of several months to study the dynamic relation between personality, study time, and cognitive…

The author of "Teachers Touch Eternity," who is also a popular speaker as well as an Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) member, shares some of her classroom tips for teachers as part of this back-to-school issue. Some of her recommendations include: (1) be enthusiastic; (2) make the classroom inviting; (3) create a positive…

Learning disability label establishes accommodation eligibility and civil rights protection but provides an excuse for school officials and legislators to adopt a medical model of learning disabilities and ignore other problems in the educational and social systems. A commitment to inclusion and equality requires an acknowledgement of various…

The purpose of this study, in an environment of Internet project-based learning, is to undertake research on the effects of thinking styles on learning transfer. In this study, we establish an environment that incorporates project-based learning and Internet. Within this environment, we divide our sample of elementary school students into four…

Although children and adolescents with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome present with some similar clinical features and challenges, heterogeneity of learning style coupled with the predominance of specific "packages" of materials and methods tends to understate the need for individualization when designing an educational and/or a…

Science teachers who are committed to excellence in the classroom continually seek ways to improve teaching and learning, and the concept of multiple intelligences holds promise as a method for accomplishing this. The essence of the theory of multiple intelligences is to understand the many differences among students, the variations in the ways…

This chapter examines the myth of "women's learning" and suggests how to develop a teaching practice that is authentic, open to difference, and attentive to power.