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Amidon, Leslie E. – Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, 2001
Addresses key strategies for the design and development of Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI) programs for adult learners, focusing on the removal of learning barriers and the incorporation of information literacy principles. Barriers include financial constraints, socio-economic and social class, communication skills, time constraints,…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Educational Development, Information Literacy
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Prentice, Carolyn M. – Community College Review, 2001
Defines New Vocationalism as the concept of integrating occupational and academic courses in order to enrich both liberal arts and vocational programs. Describes a number of case studies and pilot projects under way at community colleges and discusses the obstacles to implementation and proven strategies to overcome them. (AUTH/NB)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Community Colleges, Cooperative Education, Instructional Development
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Hurley, Maureen; Jacobs, Glen; Gilbert, Melinda – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
A general overview of the SI model is provided, including the SI philosophy, essential components of the program, program structures, key roles, outcomes, and evaluation. A review of what we have learned about the importance of planning SI sessions, providing ongoing training for leaders, conducting regular SI program assessments, and implementing…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Supplementary Education, Enrichment Activities, Instructional Development
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Burrell, Carolyn; Lee, Scott – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2005
Antelope Valley College Library has provided online library instruction tutorials for students since 2000. These tutorials were developed in three phases during the last five years. This article describes the evolution of the tutorials including how to create a web based tutorial and accompanying interactive quiz. Hardware and software…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Instruction, Tutorial Programs, Online Courses
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Campbell, Katy; Gibson, Susan; Gramlich, Catherine – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2005
This article is about how conversation becomes both instructional design process and reflexive narrative inquiry. The narrative is shaped around the story and restorying of a course redevelopment project in teacher education. Told in three parts, the Start of the Journey recalls the authors' individual beliefs and expectations about teaching and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Personal Narratives, Reflection, Teacher Education
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Case, Rod E.; Ainsworth, John; Emerson, Rick – Adult Learning, 2004
This article provides a field-based account of how to develop and implement an adult workplace literacy program for English as a Second Language (ESL) students based upon the principles of a social practices definition of literacy. The purpose of the program is to provide basic literacy instruction for the growing population of Spanish-speaking…
Descriptors: Workplace Literacy, Adult Education, English (Second Language), Spanish Speaking
Yoshina, Joan M.; Harada, Violet H. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2006
In a technologically advanced, media-saturated culture, children are often confronted with realities that are as disturbing as they are real. Educators search for ways to deal with events that are so compelling that everything else drowns in the tide. They search for ways to bring these events into the learning environment in a manner that is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning, Student Centered Curriculum
Burgan, Mary – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
In this provocative work, Mary Burgan surveys the deterioration of faculty influence in higher education. From campus planning, curriculum, and instructional technology to governance, pedagogy, and academic freedom, she urges far greater consideration for the perspective of the faculty. Burgan evokes the pervasive atmosphere of charge and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Educational Technology, Faculty Recruitment
Lakkala, Minna; Paavola, Sami; Toikka, Seppo; Bauters, Merja; Markannen, Hannu; de Groot, Reuma; Ben Ami, Zvi; Baurens, Benoit; Jadin, Tanja; Richter, Christoph; Zoserl, Eva; Batatia, Hadj; Paralic, Jan; Babic, Frantisek; Damsa, Crina; Sins, Patrick; Moen, Anne; Norenes, Svein Olav; Bugnon, Alexandra; Karlgren, Klas; Kotzinons, Dimitris – Online Submission, 2008
One of the central goals of the KP-Lab project is to co-design pedagogical methods and technologies for knowledge creation and practice transformation in an integrative and reciprocal manner. In order to facilitate this process user tasks, driving objectives and high-level requirements have been introduced as conceptual tools to mediate between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, Computer System Design, Educational Technology
Gavin, M. Katherine; Casa, Tutita M.; Adelson, Jill L.; Carroll, Susan R.; Sheffield, Linda Jensen; Spinelli, Ann Marie – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2007
To date, there has been very little research-based mathematics curriculum for talented elementary students. Yet the gifted education and mathematics literature suggest support for curriculum that is both enriched and accelerated with a focus on developing conceptual understanding and mathematical thinking. Project M[superscript 3]: Mentoring…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Academically Gifted, Mathematical Concepts, Grade 3
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Rodman, William – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2007
One of the most important questions I ask as both a cultural anthropologist and a university teacher is: How do people come to know what they think they know? In this article, I adopt a narrative approach to processes of learning and discovery in two very different locales, an indigenous society in the South Pacific, and a senior seminar on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Anthropology, Personal Narratives
Gunter, Peggy – 1995
Among the defining features of the whole language philosophy are: an emphasis on reading comprehension and extracting meaning from text; reading and writing across the curriculum; and the use of phonics instruction, subordinate to other methods (cues) of extracting meaning from text. Controversy between professional educators involved in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Development, Phonics, Reading Comprehension
Vesper, James L. – 1993
This book describes a systematic method for producing instructional programs, courses, and materials that focus on human performance and how to improve it, not merely on training itself. It addresses such diverse topics as the following: how adults learn best, analyzing the training need, developing evaluation tools, delivering training courses,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Job Performance
Weiler, Robert M. – 1993
Reducing the incidence and severity of child and adolescent injuries requires a multifaceted approach involving broad-based health and social service agencies, including schools. Recognition of the need for injury prevention education began with the Industrial Revolution in the 1900s, and safety education was developed as a unit of health…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Accidents, Course Content, Educational Needs
Dills, Charles R.; Romiszowski, Alexander – 1990
This paper is intended to provide the instructional technologist already possessing some understanding of expert systems with some insight into two of the many steps involved in the design and production of such systems: knowledge acquisition and knowledge structuring or representation. It is also intended to help technologists to see how they…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Comparative Analysis, Educational Technology, Epistemology
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