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Williams, Marian H. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2012
Mind Mapping has predominantly been used by individuals or collaboratively in groups as a paper-based or computer-generated learning strategy. In an effort to make Mind Mapping kinesthetic, collaborative, and three-dimensional, an innovative pedagogical strategy, termed Physical Webbing, was devised. In the Physical Web activity, groups…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping
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Deed, Craig; Edwards, Anthony – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2011
Realizing the potential for web-based communication provides a challenge for educators. The purpose here is to report students' behavioural and cognitive strategies for active learning when using an unrestricted blog in an academic context. This provides insight into how students are making sense of the incorporation of Web 2.0 technology into…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Active Learning, Virtual Classrooms
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Vlachopoulos, Panos; Cowan, John – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2010
Much has been published in recent years about the desirable nature of facilitated interactions in online discussions for educational purposes. However, little has been reported about the roles that tutors actually adopt in real-life learning contexts, how these range between "tutoring", "managing" and "facilitating",…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Online Courses, Higher Education, Outcomes of Education
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Haigh, Jackie – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2008
A literature review of published case studies reporting progress file implementation was conducted with the intent of discovering how this is being interpreted and implemented in higher education institutions. The three studies found were analysed using an ideal type categorization developed by Clegg and Bradley (2006), that is, professional,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Active Learning, Higher Education, Classification