Describes a World-Wide-Web-based course-support environment for a university course in instructional design, explains how the environment was used as part of the course experience, and summarizes student evaluation of the course. This augmented learning process is characterized as a "tele-learning" situation because telematics applications were…

Outlines content of a law-school course in legal scholarship, describes course mechanics, and reports on its success. A section explains why law students should be given additional instruction in jurisprudence, legal history, and social science. Discusses legal education's content and quality, effects of student-run law reviews, and…

Describes redesigning an introductory undergraduate special-education course. Finds that the use of stories and literacy activities as a foundation was a powerful tool in helping students see disabled people in new ways. Discusses why educators need to see disability in new ways. Elaborates three ways that reflective inquiry can show how students…

Focuses on an attempt to teach a graduate social studies seminar democratically. Discusses two key themes, voice and choice, highlighting issues that emerge through efforts to share power and decision making with students. Presents observations and points to implications for democratic teaching methods. (DSK)

Summarizes professional issues related to technology and distance education courses and different delivery formats. Typical problems encountered as well as questions that may guide decision making regarding the selection of delivery formats for specific programs are addressed. An example of a distance education course is provided. (Author/CR)

Examines the problem of foreign-language syllabi in a brief historical review. The three main types of syllabi are described--structural, notional-functional, procedural task-based. Suggests that methodologies that cover language description, learning theories, and needs analysis should be reflected in English for special purposes courses or…

Describes a three-year course at Ben Gurion University (Israel) to develop attitudes and skills necessary for patient-centered medicine. The course uses directed reading, open discussion, case presentations, role-playing, and Balint groups to develop skills at four levels: doctor-patient communication; family systems theory; family systems…

Describes a Web-based, asynchronous, distance instruction course in public administration at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Reading Seminar course is both reading and writing intensive. It uses a peer review process that encourages interactivity among students who critique and comment on each other's work. Course evaluations have been…

Examines the effectiveness of an ethics education component in a media law and ethics course. Suggests that a short-term mass media ethics study could not develop values considered essential for ethical behavior. Argues that students developed more complexity in their reasoning not measurable by the scale. Suggests a course or module on ethics…

The Subject Learning Plan is a document designed to help college students become engaged with a subject/learning unit. It provides a "meaning map" of the subject's teaching-learning dynamics that helps students plan better approaches to learning, supports and informs their participation in planned learning activities, and helps them achieve…

Discusses how critical multiculturalism can be used to inform academic service learning, offering as an example the case study of a Pennsylvania State University project in which college students work with homeless citizens in Washington, DC. Stresses the importance of intentionality in planning the community service components of academic service…

Describes the use of concept mapping as a teaching technique in a graduate-level educational psychology course. Examines constructivist learning as a theoretical base for instruction, defines concept mapping, and outlines the classroom technique used. Asserts that concept maps guide, promote, and assist in knowledge construction as a metacognitive…

Discusses the Graded Objectives for Adults Learning (GOLF) Russian program. The aim of the GOLF program is to have four levels, with Level Four being considered equivalent to a good GCSE pass, at which stage students will have a good working knowledge of the language and a wide vocabulary. (CK)

Investigates the model of the theory of instruction emphasized in the 1991 reform in Portugal at the level of science education, comparing it to the 1975 reform by analyzing the syllabi of the reform initiatives in Years 5/6 and 7 in order to discover possible changes in the teacher-student relation. (CMK)

Describes the Web site Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE) that is sponsored by the American Economic Association under the Journal of Economic Literature. States that RFE focuses on the needs of academic economists. Explains that RFE includes over 900 Internet resources and discusses the "Teaching Resources" section. (CMK)