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Download full textHuhtala, Jack – 1994
Group investigation is an organizational approach that allows a class to work actively and collaboratively in small groups and enables students to take an active role in determining their own learning goals and processes. As part of reform and restructuring efforts, Beaverton High School (Oregon) implemented the Group Investigation model with…
Descriptors: Class Organization, Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Design
Adams, Frank – 1975
The book recounts the history and explains the philosophy of Highlander Folk School in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. Devoted to social reform, the school has functioned in an unconventional way to develop leadership and participation in three social movements in the South: the labor organizing drives of the thirties, the civil rights…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Black Leadership, Civil Rights
Fisher, Maurice D., Ed. – Gifted Education Press Quarterly, 2001
These four issues of this quarterly publication on the education of gifted students contain the following featured articles: (1) "Reflections on China: Implications for Gifted Education" (Andrea I. Prejean and Lynn H. Fox); (2) "Differentiating Instruction for Gifted Middle School Students in Heterogeneous Science Classes"…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Asperger Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorders, Autism
Norton, Priscilla; Sprague, Debra – 1999
This exploratory study examined a field-based project in which preservice teacher candidates and faculty collaborated to implement a problem-centered, technology integrated curriculum for a multiage (4th, 5th, and 6th grade) intersession at Timber Lane Elementary School. Content included detective skills such as fingerprinting and handwriting…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Experiential Learning, Field Instruction
Peer reviewedWoods, Donald R. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1996
Two McMaster University (Canada) chemical engineering courses enrolling 30-50 students incorporate problem-based learning (PBL). Issues addressed in implementation included overcoming faculty and student resistance, integrating PBL methods within a predominantly conventional curriculum, developing PBL problems and objectives, and using tutorless…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Alumni, Chemical Engineering, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedHrubey, Todd W. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1996
A proposed 6-year Doctor of Pharmacy program would consist of: a year of basic science and general education; a year of science focusing on the human body; 3 years of pharmacy-related disciplines presented in problem-solving, case study format, divided into "pharmaceutical care modules" rather than traditional courses; and 11 experiential…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Case Studies, Clinical Experience, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions)
Peer reviewedMacNeil, M. A. J.; Walton, Joanne N.; Clark, D. Christopher; Tobias, David L.; Harrison, Rosamund L. – Journal of Dental Education, 1998
Describes the evolution and implementation of a joint medical-dental problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum at the University of British Columbia's medical and dental schools, featuring development of an integrated care clinic. Issues in structuring the new curriculum are discussed, including management of the clinic's group practices, affective…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions), Clinics, Curriculum Design
Cheaney, James D.; Ingebritsen, Thomas S. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2005
Problem-based learning (PBL) is the use of a "real world" problem or situation as a context for learning. The present study explores the use of PBL in an online biotechnology course. In the PBL unit, student groups dealt with the ethical, legal, social, and human issues surrounding pre-symptomatic DNA testing for a genetic disease. Issues…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Testing, Problem Based Learning, Program Effectiveness
Direct linkAllen, Deborah; Tanner, Kimberly – Cell Biology Education, 2005
The strategies for breaking down the roadblocks and realizing the promise of active learning and inquiry instruction in the large class are being tested and publicized. Educators who have addressed the multitude of issues that underlie implementation of active-learning strategies in large-enrollment settings are conscientiously spreading the word…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Large Group Instruction, Biology, College Science
Nathoo, Arif N.; Goldhoff, Patricia; Quattrochi, James J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2005
Purpose: This study sought to assess the introduction of a web-based innovation in medical education that complements traditional problem-based learning curricula. Utilizing the case method as its fundamental educational approach, the Interactive Case-based Online Network (ICON) allows students to interact with each other, faculty and a virtual…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Schools, Online Courses, Problem Based Learning
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory
Schmidt, Henk G.; Moust, Jos H. C. – 1995
This study tested a causal model of the influence of tutor behavior on student achievement and interest in the context of problem-based learning. Data were gathered from 524 tutorial groups involving students in the health sciences curriculum at the University of Limburg in the Netherlands during 1992-93. Correlations among the 261 tutors' social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Allied Health Occupations Education, Causal Models, College Faculty
Achilles, C. M.; Hoover, S. P. – 1996
Problem-based learning (PBL) has been used in medical education and has been extended to the preparation of educational administrators. PBL should improve education at the elementary and secondary levels because it can be a vehicle for integrating curriculum, constructing alternative assessments, accommodating instruction for longer blocks of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Group Instruction
Barron, Eric – National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2003
With support from NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Goddard Space Flight Center, IGES (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies) has developed educational materials that incorporate information and data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), a joint satellite mission between the United States and Japan.…
Descriptors: Energy, Problem Based Learning, Learning Modules, Teaching Methods
Sweet, John, Ed.; Huttly, Sharon, Ed.; Taylor, Ian, Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers includes: (1) "Opportunities in Medical, Dental and Veterinary (MDV) Educational Development" (John Sweet); (2) "Culture, Collegiality, and Collaborative Learning" (George Brown, Madeline Rohin, and Michael Manogue); (3) "Communication Skills: On Being Patient-Centered" (Jeff Wilson); (4)…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Clinical Experience, Communication Skills, Computer Uses in Education
