Active learning enhances engineering education. This paper presents rationale, curriculum supplements, and an approach to active learning that may be seamlessly incorporated into a traditional lecture-based engineering class. A framework of educational theory that structures the active learning experiences and includes consideration of learning…

The purpose of this study was to provide an evaluation of the undergraduate special education teacher preparation program at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A final sample of 160 LD teachers provided the data used for analysis. Data for the study were collected by a survey consisting of five subscales: coursework, internship quality,…

This dissertation examines the academic and social goals that three second-grade English language learners in a U.S. urban school bring to their blog-mediated academic writing practices, and the interrelated nature of those goals. This study aims to bridge the dichotomy between approaches to studying computer-mediated language and literacy…

This study identified and compared the online learning experiences of faculty and students in 2006 and compared results with those found in 2000. Data were collected from faculty and students participating in online learning courses at AACSB accredited business colleges in the United States. The findings indicate that (a) although faculty and…

This study explores how students' learning styles influence their learning while solving complex problems when a case-based e-learning environment is implemented in a conventional lecture-oriented classroom. Seventy students from an anaesthesiology class at a dental school participated in this study over a 3-week period. Five learning-outcome…

Article outlined some of the issues with which schools must be prepared to deal if they hope to expand and enrich the action-learning components in an instructional program. (Author/RK)

The chairmen of the five study groups met to share contributions from their groups and to summarize their observations and recommendations. This article is a summary, somewhat abridged here. (Author/RK)

Discussed the expansion of perceptual learning and the thought processes that relate our ideas. (RK)

The central purpose of this paper is to call the attention of teachers to propaganda techniques and the criteria for critically evaluating printed matter in the hope that their awareness will lead to implementation of instructional strategies commensurate with the thinking levels of students in their charge. (Author/RK)

Article used Leaonard Bernstein's Mass as a guide in presenting a contemporary work to teach music concepts. (Editor/RK)

In order to meet the needs of youth and allow them to participate constructively in shaping society, alcohol education is a necessary and critical area in which society must exhibit direct, honest, and guiding concern. (Author/RK)

Whether children study prehistoric life or impressionism, museums can enhance classroom learnings if you know how to get the most out of each group visit. (Editor)

Author focused on the experience of learning and on the collaborative context in which it thrives. (Author/RK)