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Brown, Amanda H.; Losoff, Barbara; Hollis, Deborah R. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
The University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) is known for strong programming in the sciences and a teaching faculty at the forefront of science education and reform. Librarians at CU-Boulder, in collaboration with science faculty, are challenged to improve undergraduate science education. Using rare, historic, and artistic works from Special…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Active Learning, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Academic Libraries
Benedek, Andras, Ed.; Nyiri, Kristof, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2011
Learning and teaching are faced with radically new challenges in today's rapidly changing world and its deeply transformed communicational environment. We are living in an era of images. Contemporary visual technology--film, video, interactive digital media--is promoting but also demanding a new approach to education: the age of visual learning…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Deafness
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Witteveen, Loes; Put, Marcel; Leeuwis, Cees – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2010
This paper presents an evaluation of the visual problem appraisal (VPA) learning environment in higher education. The VPA has been designed for the training of competences that are required in complex stakeholder settings in relation to sustainability issues. The design of VPA incorporates a diversity of instruction strategies to accommodate the…
Descriptors: Visual Learning, Teaching Methods, Reflection, Simulation