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Rowbotham, Melodie A. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2015
Continued employment and advancement for faculty members depends upon growth in teaching practices; thus, there is a need for faculty across all disciplines to understand best instructional practices and the strategies that develop effective teaching behaviors and skills. While faculty members at the university level are considered experts in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Teaching Skills
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Jernigan, S. R.; Fahmy, Y.; Buckner, G. D. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
This paper details a successful and inexpensive implementation of a remote laboratory into a distance control systems course using readily available hardware and software. The physical experiment consists of a beach ball and a dc blower; the control objective is to make the height of the aerodynamically levitated beach ball track a reference…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Laboratory Experiments, Science Laboratories, Online Systems
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Brown, Alan V. – Modern Language Journal, 2009
Foreign language (FL) teachers and students may have very similar or disparate notions of effective teaching, and the intersection of the two sets of beliefs has ramifications for language learning and the effectiveness of instruction. Horwitz (1990), Kern (1995), and Schulz (1996) have argued that mismatches between FL students' and teachers'…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Teacher Effectiveness, Second Languages, Second Language Instruction