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Clearing up Misconceptions about Project-Based Learning
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Wolk, Steven – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
After 30 years of practicing, researching, and teaching project-based learning (PBL), Steven Wolk offers insight into what he has learned. He discusses what PBL is and responds to common misunderstandings about how it works. He describes how PBL units are structured, the role of direct instruction in PBL, how students learn content and skills…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Misconceptions, Direct Instruction
Identifying Effective Climate Change Education Strategies: A Systematic Review of the Research
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Monroe, Martha C.; Plate, Richard R.; Oxarart, Annie; Bowers, Alison; Chaves, Willandia A. – Environmental Education Research, 2019
Increased interest in climate change education and the growing recognition of the challenges inherent to addressing this issue create an opportunity to conduct a systematic review to understand what research can contribute to our ideas about effective climate change education. An academic database, EBSCO"host," was used to identify 959…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention
What Do People Know about Excellent Teaching and Learning?
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Boser, Ulrich – Center for American Progress, 2017
To examine the public's attitudes about the nature of teaching and learning and what they mean for educational policy, the author surveyed almost 3,000 individuals nationwide in 2015, weighting results by race, poverty, and education level. Results show: (1) There is a wide gap between the public's understanding of good educational practice and…
Descriptors: Public Opinion, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Poverty
An Extended Cyberhunts Strategy: Learner Centred Learning-by-Design
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du Plessis, Andre; Webb, Paul – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The aim of this paper is to introduce to the education community to a newly developed "Learner Centred Learning-By-Designing Extended Cyberhunts" (LCLBDEC) strategy for teaching and learning in schools. The main focus of the strategy is to enable learners to become designers of an educational tool which assists them to learn during the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Class Activities, Learning Strategies
Advances in Learning Processes
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Rosson, Mary Beth, Ed. – InTech, 2010
Readers will find several papers that address high-level issues in the use of technology in education, for example architecture and design frameworks for building online education materials or tools. Several other chapters report novel approaches to intelligent tutors or adaptive systems in educational settings. A number of chapters consider many…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Student Projects, Active Learning, Information Systems
Annual Proceedings of Selected Research and Development Papers Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology - Volume 1 and Selected Papers on the Practice of Educational Communications and Technology - Volume 2 (34th, Jacksonville, Florida, 2011)
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2011
For the thirty-fourth year, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, FL. A limited quantity of these Proceedings were printed and sold in both hardcopy and electronic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Educational Technology, Conference Papers