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Reed, Bracken; Linik, Joyce Riha; Muir, Maya; Fisher, Amy – Northwest Education, 2002
Applications of project-based learning are illustrated by examples of projects involving music, art, history, a partnership with a hospital, Native American plant remedies, roller coaster design, and making a "talking book" (CD-ROM) in English and Lushootseed (language of the Tulalip Tribes). Project learning can meet standards while involving…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Active Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education

Arsham, Hossein – USDLA Journal, 2002
Considers the impact of the Internet and online courses on learning and teaching. Topics include cost-benefit issues; learning styles; teaching styles; satisfying student needs; continuous evaluation for quality assurance; technological issues; active learning and collaborative learning; interactivity; and online course content. (LRW)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cognitive Style, Cost Effectiveness, Course Content
Tapscott, Don – Education Canada, 2001
Examines ongoing shifts in education/learning related to technological change and students' growing technological literacy. Discusses shifts toward hypermedia learning, constructivism and discovery, learner-centered education, navigation of information sources and information synthesis, lifelong learning, customized learning, learning as fun, and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
Elsner, Paul A. – Community College Journal, 2002
Addresses the issue of student engagement in education. Suggests that reasons behind high dropout rates for first-year students may include the college's adherence to the traditional learning paradigm that characterizes the student as a passive learner. Urges institutions to move toward learning through engagement. (NB)
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning
Olson, Kelli – Community College Journal, 2002
Discusses a Web-based composition class that requires students to participate in and write about service learning. Suggests that service learning and distance education complement one another--the student-community interaction balances the solitude of distance learning. Stresses that service learning offers a humanizing antidote to Web-based…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Cooperative Learning

Latz, Gil – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1999
Expounds that "The Geography Discipline Network Guides on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment" that were produced by the English Geography Discipline Network are a worthwhile addition to the efforts to promote geographic literacy. Maintains that there are deficiencies since the guides aim only at individual lecturers and instructors of geography.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Audiences, Book Reviews, Educational Assessment

Hicks, Bonnie; Montequin, Leah; Hicks, Jason – Primary Voices K-6, 2000
Forms part of a themed issue describing "Parent-Kid-Teacher Investigators," a program in which parents, children, and teachers gather regularly to use language and literacy for action research projects. Offers a portrait of the weekly meetings. Summarizes what three particular groups learned about their topics: the underground railroad;…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education

Perkins, David – Educational Leadership, 1999
Although most constructivist classrooms feature active, social, and creative learning, different kinds of knowledge (inert, ritual, conceptually difficult, and foreign) invite varied constructivist responses, not one standard approach. Constructivism is pragmatic and should be viewed as a toolbox for problems of learning; teachers should use…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning
Olson, Paul A. – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1997
Addressing the "death of hope" in rural Nebraska during the 1980s farm crisis, the "School at the Center" project engages rural schools and communities in active learning projects: housing or historic-building repair, environmental repair, microenterprise development, exploration of local cultural heritage, and technology…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Development, Community Education, Elementary Secondary Education

Cantone, Kathleen A. – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2001
States that cooperative learning in developmental mathematics classes has greater success rates than do traditional remedial courses. Discusses learning communities--in which instructors work with other instructors to help students connect mathematics with other disciplines, and in which there is an increased level of peer interaction--as an…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Colleges, Cooperative Learning, Developmental Studies Programs
Dugdale, Sharon; Matthews, James I.; Guerrero, Shannon – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2004
This article describes a teacher's techniques and strategies for promoting productive discourse and supporting active learning in the mathematics classroom. The lesson excerpts included are from two days of a workshop with primarily middle-grades teachers. These excerpts demonstrate the teacher's typical progression through defining a problem,…
Descriptors: Investigations, Active Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods
Campbell, Philippa – Young Exceptional Children, 2004
When children are young, the activities and routines in which they participate are influenced by family decisions as well as by opportunities for participation. Families report that finding community opportunities for their young children with disabilities can be difficult. Furthermore, ensuring their children's success in these settings requires…
Descriptors: Young Children, Federal Legislation, Participation, Disabilities
Hervani, Aref; Helms, Marilyn M. – Journal of Education for Business, 2004
In this study, the authors analyze an effective classroom teaching style that relies on interactive learning and integrates classroom activities and efforts into communities. They introduce the service learning project as an effective teaching tool that can be used along with other effective teaching practices to enhance students' learning…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Economics Education
Ehrmann, Stephan C. – Liberal Education, 2004
Today there are important types of analytical thinking, communication, quantitative reasoning, and information skills that cannot be used, or learned, without technology. Let?s look at just two:(1) information literacy; and (2) the ability to create Web sites as a medium of academic expression. Information literacy is the set of skills needed to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Computer Uses in Education, Web Based Instruction, Consciousness Raising
Corrigan, Gerry; Taylor, Neil – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2004
The effects of a Self Regulated Learning (SRL) environment on pre-service primary teachers of Science and Technology were investigated in this exploratory study. A representative sample of teachers was interviewed about their experience and how it impacted on them pedagogically, affectively, conceptually and metacognitively. The preliminary…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Primary Education, Science Education, Technology