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Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2000
An Idaho community worked together to build a performing arts building on school property. Students from the school, which had been using the Foxfire approach for several years, selected the site, did the surveying, and helped with the timber frame construction. The project fostered a renewed sense of community for a town suffering from declining…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Involvement, Construction (Process), Educational Facilities Improvement
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Scarboro, Allen – Teaching Sociology, 2004
Theory is a vitally important component of every undergraduate sociology program. Social theory classes are the heart of the undergraduate major in sociology: in these courses, students take on the professional and disciplinary roles of sociologists. This paper reports on two strategies that enlivened their social theory class, generating both…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Sociology, Social Theories, Educational Strategies
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Begg, Michael; Dewhurst, David; Macleod, Hamish – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2005
The term "game-based learning" has emerged as a general name for the use of computer games in education. Despite early work showing rich inferential learning taking place as a result of gameplay, most game-based learning has been geared towards using a game as a host into which curricular content can be embedded. This approach can be problematic,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Higher Education, Problem Based Learning, Veterinary Medicine
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Neo, Mai – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
In recent years, the information and communication technology (ICT) has created a significant impact on the methods of communicating information and knowledge to the learners and, consequently, innovative teaching techniques have evolved to change the way teachers teach and students learn. In this paper, the focus is on a study which was conducted…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Group Activities
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Howard, David R.; Miskowski, Jennifer A. – Cell Biology Education, 2005
Because cell biology has rapidly increased in breadth and depth, instructors are challenged not only to provide undergraduate science students with a strong, up-to-date foundation of knowledge, but also to engage them in the scientific process. To these ends, revision of the Cell Biology Lab course at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Interests, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Smith, Deborah A.; Glover, Regina – College Teaching, 2002
The article examines a set of active learning activities that use a simulation format in conjunction with writing assignments. Students act as interviewers and interviewees to acquire an understanding of human resource management. Objectives include developing student understanding of process (be it hiring or application) and the tools of the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Personnel Selection, Writing Assignments, Job Performance
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Forman, Janis – Business Communication Quarterly, 2005
UCLA's program in strategic management for European corporate communication professionals provides participants with a concentrated, yet selective, immersion in those management disciplines taught at U.S. business schools, topics that are essential to their work as senior advisors to CEOs and as leaders in the field. The choice of topics…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Strategic Planning, International Educational Exchange, Instructional Development
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Anderman, Lynley H.; Patrick, Helen; Ryan, Allison M. – Middle School Journal (J3), 2004
Student motivation is a cause of great concern for educators at all levels, but perhaps never more so than during the middle school years. Teachers' observations about declines in student interest and confidence in academic tasks are borne out by a number of large-scale empirical studies. In this article, the author examines how teachers create…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Interaction Process Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Learner Controlled Instruction
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Sorby, Sheryl A.; Oppliger, Douglas E.; Boersma, Norma – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2006
As a profession, engineering is not well understood by the general public. Engineers are perceived as "geeks" who love math and who have few interests outside of technical work. In short, the engineering profession has an image problem. In order to counteract this negative stereotyping, an engineering course for non-majors was developed…
Descriptors: Nonmajors, Instructional Design, Engineering Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Sims, Rod – Journal of Learning Design, 2006
When we reflect on the emergence of online education and e-learning as the leading contender to confront the traditions of face-to-face teaching and learning, it is not only a case of better understanding the characteristics of online environments, but also timely to assess the relevance of theories and frameworks informing the design and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods
City Coll. of San Francisco, CA. – 1995
In an effort to become more responsive to students' needs regarding the current and future labor market, California's City College of San Francisco (CCSF) developed "CityWorks," a strategic plan for workforce education and training. This report provides background to the development of CityWorks and describes key goals and strategies.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Planning, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Byra, Mark; Jenkins, Jayne – 1997
In the inclusion style of teaching, learners must make decisions about level of task difficulty. They must decide at which level to enter the presented task and then, for additional sets of trials, decide whether to perform the task the same way, make it more difficult, or make it less difficult. This study examined learner decision making in a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Decision Making, Educational Theories
Purao, Sandeep – 1997
Active learning is an important element of course design. It has, however, not been integrated in the conduct of class lectures as they have evolved from early, chalkboard-based discussions to newer, multimedia presentation styles. The sophisticated, multimedia presentation styles have forced some rigidity, and have often unintentionally relegated…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Course Evaluation, Group Discussion, Higher Education
Hogle, Jan G. – 1996
Use of educational games to supplement traditional classroom lectures is purported by some researchers to increase interest, motivation, and retention, as well as to improve higher order thinking and reasoning skills. This paper reviews proposed benefits of using games as cognitive tools, and discusses the complexities of assessing those benefits.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Critical Thinking
Bentley, Tom – 1998
The thesis of this book is that effective education for the next century should focus on the connections between schools and society, relating education more closely to the challenges of adulthood. There are two crucial tests of an effective education system: how well students can apply what they learn in situations beyond the bounds of their…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Change Strategies, Educational Attitudes, Educational Improvement
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