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Baker-Eveleth, Lori Jo; Miller, Jon Robert; Tucker, Laura – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
Inflation-adjusted tuition and fees in education have risen for decades. College textbook costs have risen as well. The authors discuss reasons for higher textbook costs. The development and use of encyclopedic introductory textbooks creates higher monetary cost for students and higher nonmonetary cost for students and teachers, from increased…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Textbooks, Institutional Cooperation, Course Organization
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Hai-Jew, Shalin – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
A well-designed curriculum for online learning nurtures both student learning and student retention. While ideally value will be designed into an online curriculum from the start, the reality is that, across the spectrum of e-learning, there is a wide range of quality. Consequently, virtually every online course can benefit from periodic…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Online Courses, Curriculum Development
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Keiner, Louis E.; Burns, Teresa E. – Physics Teacher, 2010
It is now widely known that interactive engagement (IE) teaching methods are the most effective methods of teaching physics. As physics instructors, we now have a variety of methods and models to choose from to make courses interactive. Included in these are methods that function as interactive adaptations to the traditional structure of physics…
Descriptors: Interaction, Peer Teaching, Science Instruction, Physics
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Bloom, Diane S.; Ehoff, Clemense, Jr. – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
This second paper describes how the Internet was used to modernize a graduate accounting capstone course to enhance student interest and learning, and is an extension of an earlier paper that examined a similar approach with an undergraduate accounting capstone course. Course content was developed from contemporary issues and cases obtained from…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Internet, Accounting
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Eddings, M. A.; Stephenson, J. C.; Harvey, I. R. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
Full class loads and inflexible schedules can be a significant obstacle in the implementation of freshman survey courses designed to guide engineering students into emerging research areas such as micro- and nanosystems. A hands-on, interactive course was developed to excite freshmen early in their engineering program to pursue research and…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Experiential Learning
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Hamilton, Janet G.; Klebba, Joanne M. – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
This article describes a course design process to improve the effectiveness of using experiential learning techniques to foster critical thinking skills. The authors examine prior research to identify essential dimensions of experiential learning in relation to higher order thinking. These dimensions provide key insights for the selection of…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Critical Thinking, Course Organization, Curriculum Design
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Magalhães, Marcos Nascimento; Magalhães, Maria Cecilia Camargo – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
In this paper, we report on the impact of four activities and two interviews on the organization of an introductory statistics course attended by future mathematics teachers at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The activities were designed to enhance students' learning and collaborative knowledge construction, based on Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Statistics, Introductory Courses, Interviews, Course Organization
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Scager, Karin; Akkerman, Sanne F.; Pilot, Albert; Wubbels, Theo – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
The existing literature on indicators of an optimal learning environment for high-ability students frequently discusses the concept of challenge. It is, however, not clear what, precisely, constitutes appropriate challenge for these students. In this study, the authors examined an undergraduate honours course, Advanced Cell Biology, which has…
Descriptors: Biology, Cytology, Academically Gifted, Honors Curriculum
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Frisch, Jennifer K.; Jackson, Paula C.; Murray, Meg C. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2013
WIKIed Biology is a National Science Foundation Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics interdisciplinary project in which the authors developed and implemented a model for student centered, inquiry-driven instruction using Web 2.0 technologies to increase inquiry and conceptual understanding in…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Critical Thinking, Technology Uses in Education, Course Organization
Abbott, William; Nantz, Kathryn A. – Issues in Integrative Studies, 2012
Having engaged in interdisciplinary team-teaching in both the two-course cluster format and the single course format, we intend to show how we helped students recognize and find their own integrative insights between the disciplines of history and economics. In the process we not only compare the advantages and disadvantages of each format but…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Integrated Activities, History Instruction, Economics Education
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Sisti, Flora – Research-publishing.net, 2012
This presentation examines the application of Web 2.0 to an online scientific language course. The online Computer Science English Course (CSEC), funded by a national PRIN project and targeted to students enrolled in the undergraduate course in Applied Computer Science (ACS) at the University of Urbino-Italy, aims to promote the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Web 2.0 Technologies, Scientific Literacy
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Wiegant, Fred; Scager, Karin; Boonstra, Johannes – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2011
This article reports on a one-semester Advanced Cell Biology course that endeavors to bridge the gap between gaining basic textbook knowledge about cell biology and learning to think and work as a researcher. The key elements of this course are 1) learning to work with primary articles in order to get acquainted with the field of choice, to learn…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Scientific Research, Advanced Courses, Cytology
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Zhang, Huirong; Xiong, Jianjie; Song, Naiqing – Chinese Education and Society, 2013
This article describes Southwest University's no-fee teacher education internship models in terms of their organization, content, requirements, and quality assurance. It further introduces the quality assurance system, which comprises building a teaching internship system, establishing internship sites, guiding teacher training, and processing…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Educational Innovation, Fees, Paying for College
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Geraci, Carlo – Sign Language Studies, 2012
Italian Sign Language (LIS) is the name of the language used by the Italian Deaf community. The acronym LIS derives from Lingua italiana dei segni ("Italian language of signs"), although nowadays Italians refers to LIS as Lingua dei segni italiana, reflecting the more appropriate phrasing "Italian sign language." Historically,…
Descriptors: Dialects, American Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
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DeFrank, Richard S. – Journal of Management Education, 2012
Given the growing literature on and documented importance of workplace stress, it is suggested that this topic deserves more than a casual mention in introductory management classes. The current article reviews a comprehensive course dedicated to the phenomenon of stress in the work setting, which addresses issues such as theories, demands and…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Teaching Methods, Stress Variables, Coping
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