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Barr, Stephanie; Dunbar, Brian; Schiller, Craig – Educational Facility Planner, 2012
With the increase in both green school construction and research linking green schools to healthier students, higher performance and financial return on investment, it is no surprise that the green school design practices are quickly becoming standard practice. This is reason for celebration, yet there are still many mountains to climb to achieve…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Educational Facilities Design, Architecture
Thomas, Suzanne – Arts & Activities, 2011
When the author traveled to the city of Barcelona, Spain to see the still-unfinished La Sagrada Familia in person, she marveled at the magical genius of Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece. Inspired by Gaudi's whimsical tile work and cathedral towers, the author developed an art project that engages students in a creative experience, which combined art…
Descriptors: Architecture, Studio Art, Art Activities, Art History
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Burke, Catherine; Grosvenor, Ian – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2011
In recent years sensory history has emerged as a research topic of growing interest to historians and has been accompanied by a call to incorporate the senses into our understanding of the past. Under modernity, social direction and control were built into the infrastructure of modern life as specialist institutions emerged and multiplied in the…
Descriptors: Hearing (Physiology), Listening, Educational Environment, Children
Rosenblum, Todd – Exceptional Parent, 2011
Bringing a newborn home from the hospital can come with stress for any parent. Coming home with twins can be double the stress. This article shares the story of a couple faced with this situation 12 years ago with the birth of twins, one was born with complications. They lived in a Colonial until the twins were almost five years old, at which time…
Descriptors: Twins, Architecture, Interior Design, Building Design
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Stamps, Arthur E., III – Environment and Behavior, 2013
This article reports seven new, original findings, based on 4 experiments, 56 environmental scenes, and 71 participants, on how the factors of area over which one could walk (boundary height, boundary porosity, and boundary proximity) influence perceived spaciousness or enclosure. Perceived spaciousness was most strongly related by the area over…
Descriptors: Urban Environment, Physical Environment, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli
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Halac, Hicran Hanim; Cabuk, Alper – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
Depending on the evolving technological possibilities, distance and online education applications have gradually gained more significance in the education system. Regarding the issues, such as advancements in the server services, disc capacity, cloud computing opportunities resulting from the increase in the number of the broadband internet users,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Architecture, Distance Education
Rimland, Jeffrey C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In many evolving systems, inputs can be derived from both human observations and physical sensors. Additionally, many computation and analysis tasks can be performed by either human beings or artificial intelligence (AI) applications. For example, weather prediction, emergency event response, assistive technology for various human sensory and…
Descriptors: Man Machine Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Client Server Architecture, Information Technology
Stamas, Paul J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This case study research followed the two-year transition of a medium-sized manufacturing firm towards a service-oriented enterprise. A service-oriented enterprise is an emerging architecture of the firm that leverages the paradigm of services computing to integrate the capabilities of the firm with the complementary competencies of business…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Organizational Change, Internet, Information Storage
Meehan, Mark W. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates the development and function of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture in Amman, Jordan. A vertical case study using grounded theory methodology, the research attempts to create a rich and holistic understanding of the Institute. Specific areas of study include the factors involved in the founding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islam, Case Studies, Islamic Culture
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Patti, D.; Spadaccini, A.; Palesi, M.; Fazzino, F.; Catania, V. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2012
The topics of computer architecture are always taught using an Assembly dialect as an example. The most commonly used textbooks in this field use the MIPS64 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) to help students in learning the fundamentals of computer architecture because of its orthogonality and its suitability for real-world applications. This…
Descriptors: Simulation, Computer Software, Undergraduate Study, Textbooks
Roberts, Paul – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
Five years ago the author embarked on an odyssey that would fundamentally change his life as an architect. He and his partner, Dave Deppen, were selected through a very competitive process to design a new Child Development and Family Studies Center in the Sierra Foothills, near Yosemite National Park for Columbia College. The Columbia College…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Preschool Children, Child Care Centers
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Rolling, James Haywood, Jr. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2012
This article utilizes the story of an art studio project involving 2nd-grade students in a new urban elementary school as they explored and engaged with architectural spaces in their community during their yearlong study of the theme of "Community." The purpose of this writing is to theorize and codify some major tenets of a narrative…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Art Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
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Cowan, Steven; McCulloch, Gary; Woodin, Tom – History of Education, 2012
This paper examines the connections between the school building programme in England and the raising of the school leaving age (ROSLA) from 14 to 15 in 1947 and then to 16 in 1972. These two major developments were intended to help to ensure the realisation of "secondary education for all" in the postwar period. The combination led in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Age, Secondary Education
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Livingstone, David N. – History of Education, 2010
Recent work on the history of education has been registering a "spatial turn" in its historiography. These reflections from a historical geographer working on the spatiality of knowledge enterprises (science in particular) reviews some recent developments in the field before turning to three themes--landscape agency, geographies of textuality, and…
Descriptors: Historiography, Educational History, Historians, Geography
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Koole, Marguerite L.; Parchoma, Gale – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
Through relational dialogue, learners shape their identities by sharing information about the world and how they see themselves in it. As learners interact, they receive feedback from both the environment and other learners which, in turn, helps them assess and adjust their self-presentations. Although learners retain choice and personal agency,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Internet, Social Capital, Ethics
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