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Rogers, John; Dains, Joyce; Chang, Tai; Corboy, Jane – Family Medicine, 1999
Evaluates effectiveness of a clerkship curriculum that teaches core family-practice competencies by focusing on the process of care in a generalist practice. Organizing framework consists of five prototypic visits and their encounter tasks: new problem, checkup, chronic illness, psychosocial problem, and behavioral change. Results indicate…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions)
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Ward, Robert – Computers & Education, 1998
Discusses ideas and observations about the development, use, and pedagogy of computer-based case scenarios. Outlines two large computer-based case scenarios written to help students develop their skills and knowledge in business information systems. Considers factors in the design of computer-based case scenarios and related activities that might…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Business Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Computer Assisted Instruction
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Lamb, Annette C.; Smith, William L. – TechTrends, 2000
Presents ideas for distance learning courses on the Web. Topics include students' individual characteristics; technology changes and problems; instructional design; deadlines for student assignments; monitoring student progress; giving students appropriate and timely feedback; time factors for students and teachers; active learning; and student…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Assignments, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education
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Harper, Barry; Hedberg, John G.; Wright, Rob – Computers & Education, 2000
Discusses the use of constructivist frameworks to develop effective and successful learning environments, including educational software. Topics include technology supporting reform; virtuality and multimedia; attributes of interactive multimedia and virtual reality; and examples of context and learner active participation. (Contains 35…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Software Development, Constructivism (Learning), Courseware
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Salend, Spencer J. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1998
Offers guidelines for enhancing science instruction for students with disabilities by adapting, implementing, and assessing an activities-based approach. This approach features a structured learning cycle, emphasis on the relationship of science to students' lives, experiential learning, interdisciplinary themes, cooperative learning groups,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Disabilities, Educational Technology
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Percac, Sanja; Armstrong, Elizabeth G. – Medical Teacher, 1998
Discusses the incorporation of a problem-based anatomy course into a traditional curriculum in the School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb. Describes the course, challenges that arose during the transition, and institutional solutions. Students showed a high preference for the active learning process experienced in tutorials over the more…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Anatomy, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
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Mikulecky, Larry; Lloyd, Paul; Conner, Jennifer M. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1997
Examines the extent to which student groups working with the Chelsea Bank computer simulation were able to use school-to-work transition skills. Results show that students demonstrated substantial involvement with workplace skills and were considerably more actively engaged with learning than studies of traditional classrooms. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation
Brett, William J. – Bioscene, 1998
Discusses Boyer's proposal to incorporate the seven human commonalities into college courses so that students will become less parochial and more global individuals. Describes the application of this commonalities approach to both a general education course and an introductory course for biology majors. Commonalities are presented in a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Biology, Consciousness Raising, Curriculum Development
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Mangurian, Luz; Feldman, Susannah; Clements, James; Boucher, Laurence – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2001
Introduces the Towson Transition Course (TTC) which focuses on preparing students to be scientifically literate and describes the components of the course. Focuses on problem solving, gathering traditional and electronic information, using the case study teaching method, ethical scientific behavior, and evaluation. (Contains 33 references.) (YDS)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Computers, Critical Thinking
Starkey, Brigid – Educational Technology, 2001
Describes the International Communication and Negotiation Simulations (ICONS) Project that teachers college students about cross-cultural communication, including the role of foreign language in diplomacy and the complexities of the international system. Discusses the role playing element, Web-based communication between teams, active student…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Mediated Communication, Cross Cultural Studies, Global Education
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Kocour, Bruce G. – College & Undergraduate Libraries, 2000
Describes the development of a Web site for library instruction at Carson-Newman College (TN) and its integration into English composition courses. Describes the use of a virtual tour, a tutorial on database searching, tutorials on specific databases, and library guides to specific disciplines to create an effective mechanism for active learning.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College English, College Libraries, Course Integrated Library Instruction
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Fernandez, Jose Maria Perez – Educational Media International, 2001
Describes how the Internet was used in an English class for architecture and construction students at the University of Granada (Spain). Discusses course organization; links to construction company Web sites; active learning; group work; student presentations; student autonomy and student motivation; and problems with plagiarism. (LRW)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Architectural Education, Construction Industry, Course Organization
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Orner, Mimi – Theory into Practice, 1996
Explains situated approaches to teaching, exploring the pedagogical significance of intervention projects produced by college students to interrupt business as usual in their education. The projects were context-specific actions emerging out of interactions between the course material and students' understandings of how these issues were manifest…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Activism, College Students, Creative Teaching
McAuley, Sandy – Education Canada, 2001
Knowledge Forum is Canadian software that enables elementary students in Nunavut to record and share their topics of investigation and those of their classmates, much as a community of scientists would. The goal is the creation of learning communities in which students collaboratively build knowledge and teachers facilitate. The software also has…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Culturally Relevant Education
Paglin, Catherine – Northwest Education, 2002
An alternative school in southern Oregon that allows students to make up missing credits offers project-based thematic classes that take students outside the school. One course studied the Klamath Basin's water crisis and involved exploring the area and the perspectives of farmers, biologists, park rangers, and Native Americans. Courses culminate…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Ecology, Experiential Learning, Field Trips
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