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Higgins, Carrie – Knowledge Quest, 2008
In this article, the author describes the development of a storytelling unit she introduced to her school. She got the idea for the storytelling unit from the National Storytelling Festival she had attended several years ago in Jonesboro, Tennessee. When she proposed her idea of a storytelling unit culminating in a festival modeled on the national…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Curriculum Development
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Plana, Mar Gutiérrez-Colon; Ballester, Elisabet Pladevall – English Language Teaching, 2009
The present study is based on a previous pilot study (Gutiérrez-Colon, 2008). The present study aimed at widening the scope of the pilot study increasing the sample size in number of participants, degree courses and number of universities. This time, four Spanish universities were involved, and the number of participants was 197, who were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Interviews, Blended Learning
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Barnett, Marina; Silver, Paula T.; Grundy, Trindy S. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2009
This article describes a case example of a pedagogical approach that successfully integrates teaching technical skills, knowledge, and civic engagement. Students embarked on a semester-long project to assess the complexities of the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit, develop a response to address the concerns of community constituents, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, College Instruction, Advocacy, Health Insurance
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Rehman, H.-u.; Said, R. A.; Al-assaf, Y. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
This paper proposes an integrated approach for developing the engineering curricula with a specific focus on engineering design. The proposed approach allows a continuous and coherent development of engineering students' design skills throughout the entire undergraduate curriculum. This ongoing design experience is delivered at an involvement and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Study, Skill Development, Design
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Marino, Matthew T.; Sameshima, Pauline; Beecher, Constance C. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2009
As the global community continues the transition from an industrialized factory model to an information and now participatory networked-based society, educational technology will play a pivotal role in preparing students for their futures. Many teacher preparation programs are failing to provide preservice teachers with the knowledge, skills, and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Practices, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology
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Justice, Christopher; Rice, James; Roy, Dale; Hudspith, Bob; Jenkins, Herb – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
Inquiry-based learning is one approach to improving the quality of undergraduate education by moving toward more student-directed, interactive methods of learning while focusing on learning how to learn. This paper deals with a missing component in the inquiry-related literature--the extra-pedagogical challenges of introducing and maintaining…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Learning Strategies, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Dyson, Laurel Evelyn; Litchfield, Andrew; Lawrence, Elaine; Raban, Ryszard; Leijdekkers, Peter – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
This article reports on an m-learning research agenda instituted at our university in order to explore how mobile technology can enhance active, experiential learning. Details of the implementation and results of four areas of m-learning are presented: mobile supported fieldwork, fostering interactivity in large lectures with mobile technology,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Case Studies, Program Implementation, Curriculum Implementation
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Nachmias, Rafi; Ram, Judith – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
This paper describes the scope and outcomes of Virtual TAU, a campus-wide project that aims to integrate information and communication technologies into the academic instruction at Tel Aviv University (TAU). It provides data, insights, and conclusions drawn from various research and evaluation studies that were conducted at the university during…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Technology Integration, Information Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Klopfer, Eric; Scheintaub, Hal; Huang, Wendy; Wendel, Daniel; Roque, Ricarose – E-Learning, 2009
StarLogo The Next Generation (TNG) enables secondary school students and teachers to model decentralized systems through agent-based programming. TNG's inclusion of a three-dimensional graphical environment provides the capacity to create games and simulation models with a first-person perspective. The authors theorize that student learning of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Creative Thinking, Secondary School Students, Pilot Projects
Alberta Education, 2008
This manual is for district and school administrators, counselors, teachers, parents/guardians, students and others involved in the process of implementing the Knowledge and Employability policy and courses. It is intended to serve as a starting point as districts and schools introduce the new courses or make the transition from Integrated…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Secondary Education, Curriculum Implementation, Program Implementation
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Michaelsen, Larry K.; Sweet, Michael – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
Team-based learning (TBL) may rely on small group interaction more heavily than any other commonly used instructional strategy in postsecondary education. This conclusion is based on three facts: (1) Group work with TBL is central to exposing students to and improving their ability to apply course content; (2) Majority of class time with TBL is…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Cooperative Learning, Course Content, Group Dynamics
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Johnston, Robbie; Davis, Rob – Teaching Education, 2008
At the University of Ballarat, pre-service teachers (PSTs) in their second year of the Bachelor of Education (P-10) are required to plan community-based teaching and learning in conjunction with school students, their teachers and schools along with community organizations. These requirements are in synergy with curriculum developments in schools…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Barriers
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Bates, Richard – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2008
This paper examines some of the effects of globalisation on education and teacher education. In particular it considers the contradictory demands of economic and cultural forms of globalisation, and between globalisation and localisation. Attempts to construct an "education space" in Europe and Asia are considered and various responses…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Mulligan, Margaret H. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In 1999, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) began the Outcome Project which re-focused program accreditation decisions. Six competency areas detailed new standards, calling for programs to measure and provide evidence of learner's acquisition of the knowledge and skills for independent practice in a specific specialty.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Program Effectiveness, Graduate Medical Education, Physicians
Supramaniam, Mahadevan; Shanmugam, Bala – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the implementation flow and development of retail bank management simulation based training system which could provide a comprehensive knowledge about the operations and management of banks for the banking students. The prototype of a Retail banking simulation based training system was developed based on…
Descriptors: Banking, Client Server Architecture, Retailing, Instructional Design
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