Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare the use of WebCT in support of online and blended learning in the Faculty of Architecture of a Hong Kong university. Design/methodology/approach: Paper questionnaires are used to collect students' experiences, perceptions and attitudes towards the online course they have undertaken. Focus group…

Research on asynchronous online discussions has primarily focused on their efficacy in relation to learning outcomes. Rarely are there investigations on how the design of online learning activities or how discussions could be incorporated into student learning experience. We contend that successful online activities need careful and meticulous…

The Project Approach has been applied to early childhood education in Taiwan since 1993. The purposes of this study were to explore how teachers of young children conduct the Project Approach, what challenges they have encountered and what support they may need. In addition, this study investigates teachers' implementation of the Project Approach…

Urban schools serving low-income minority children face a variety of challenges related to teacher quality, resources and school infrastructure. Programs such as the GK-12 Fellows Program, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), try to mitigate some of these issues by supporting partnerships between local school districts and institutions…

This paper is an abbreviated phenomenology of understanding accompanied by some very general suggestions as to how pedagogy is related to a grasp of the essential features of understanding. (Editor)

The specificity of training principle from exercise physiology was tested in a motor skills learning context. (Author/JA)

Author approached the problem of stimulating students to learn the exacting and physically tiring process of music education through use of some musical instrument. (RK)

Solutions to two problems are proposed: (1) a lack of help in social services due to the state of the economy, rising unemployment, and cuts in government support; and (2) fewer opportunities for career preparation and training programs. It is suggested that increased volunteerism would alleviate the problems while helping people learn job skills,…

This article discusses some principles of learning from a philosophical viewpoint. (PD)

Based on paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 7, 1968.

A GENERAL SURVEY OF LITERATURE IN THE AREA OF REINFORCEMENT WAS MADE DURING THIS STUDY. THE REPORT SUMMARIZED RESEARCH WHICH HAS BEEN CONDUCTED BY VARIOUS AUTHORITIES IN THE FIELD. THE SUBJECT OF REINFORCEMENT WAS DIVIDED INTO--(1) THE PROBLEM OF DEFINING REINFORCEMENT, (2) POSITIVE REINFORCING STIMULI, CONSUMABLES, (3) POSITIVE REINFORCING…

"Critique" is the term applied to learning from direct experience. Critiqube, a model of critique, is discussed according to its dimensions; the attributes of direct experience (people, process, procedure, product, and performance); critique techniques (inspection, simulation, participant-observation, and strategic assessment); and management…

A university English instructor, frustrated at being unable to stimulate his students to construe the sense of poems and to limit their strong subjectivity, tried using extracurricular reading as a spur toward a more honest and attentive interpretation of poetry. His experiment produced successful and interesting results. (RK)

Work can be conceived as a significant aspect of everyday school, home, and community life, giving it a "here and now" character. These life experiences provide a structure for the introduction of concepts about work, work roles, and work functions as an integral part of the teaching-learning process. (Author)