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Direct linkDass, Pradeep M. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2005
An appropriate understanding of the nature of the scientific enterprise (NOSE) is a key element of scientific literacy and can arguably be influenced through an exploration of the history of science. An elective, undergraduate History of Science course was organized in the form of small-group discussion-based inquiries into the history of science…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Group Activities, Undergraduate Students, Elective Courses
Download full textMcBride, Dawn Lorraine; Davis, Lynn Ashley – Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
This article outlines Canada's first web based/residential Master of Counselling program. Since the program is open to students from around the world, the program is designed to be accessible, innovative and flexible. To meet these operational goals, the program is structured around interactive online discussion forums, video web-conferencing,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Counselor Training, Web Based Instruction
Graham, Simon; Gask, Linda; Swift, Geraldine; Evans, Mark – Academic Psychiatry, 2009
Objectives: The authors aim to identify any benefits or limitations of psychiatric residents attending a Balint-style case discussion group, to explore those experiences, to study the process of the learning experience, and to identify potential educational implications. Methods: Seventeen psychiatric residents and counselors completing two…
Descriptors: Psychiatry, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Students, Medical Students
Knotts, Greg; Henderson, Lynette; Davidson, Ronald A.; Swain, John D. – College Teaching, 2009
This article describes the investigation of four first-year faculty at a comprehensive state university. We each explored and evaluated our teaching philosophies, strategies, and roles as educators and researchers, using Bain's definition of authentic teaching and learning, the "natural critical learning environment." We identified four…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, College Instruction, College Faculty
Smith, Helen – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2008
The use of online learning is prevalent in higher education, in particular the use of Blackboard and other similar virtual learning environments (VLEs). Students' participation in online discussion forums is a common activity and the online threaded discussion tool provides opportunities for students to: (1) form collaborative groups for…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Student Evaluation
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2006
In 2004, a Saudi student at the College of Engineering, King Saud University (KSU) designed and launched an informal students' forum that aimed at communicating students' voices to university professors and administrators. Students could register for free, post academic and career problems and suggestions, and participate in the discussion. Soon…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Faculty
Sutherland, Louise; Howard, Sarah; Markauskaite, Lina – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The importance of reflection in supporting the continued professional learning of preservice practitioners is well recognised. This study examines one aspect of the outcomes of preservice teachers' reflection: the development of their own self-image as a teacher. In making the transition from student to teacher, preservice teachers create their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Content Analysis, Teacher Attitudes
Bures, Eva Mary; Abrami, Philip C.; Schmid, Richard F. – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2010
This paper explores a labelling feature designed to support higher-level online dialogue. It investigates whether students use labels less often during a structured online dialogue than during an unstructured one, and looks at students' reactions to labelling and to both types of tasks. Participants are from three successive course offerings of a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Use Studies, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Distance Education
Hall, Barbara M. – Online Submission, 2011
Threaded discussions represent conversational turn-taking in asynchronous, online learning environments. Given the crucial role that discussions play in the construction of knowledge within an online course, the quality of the interaction that occurs within threaded discussions is important to achieving the learning objectives of the designed…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication
Jones, Robyn L.; Turner, Poppy – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2006
Background: Coaching, as related to improving others' sporting experience and/or performance, at any level is unquestionably a complex business. General agreement exists that the dynamic and intricate nature of the work in teaching, guiding and managing others in this regard precludes any paint-by-number plans that practitioners can easily follow.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Problem Based Learning, Lifelong Learning, Teaching Methods
Chang, Ching-Wen; Pearman, Cathy; Farha, Nicholas – Critical Questions in Education, 2012
Language laboratories, developed in the 1970s under the influence of the Audiolingual Method, were superseded several decades later by computer-assisted language learning (CALL) work stations (Gündüz, 2005). The World Wide Web was developed shortly thereafter. From this introduction and the well-documented and staggering growth of the Internet and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Internet, Web 2.0 Technologies, Language Laboratories
Jahng, Namsook – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
This study investigated communication patterns and behavior in problem-solving groups in a graduate online course. An inductive qualitative analysis method was employed to analyze 732 messages that were retrieved from small group forums. The current study identified a temporal pattern of group development was in comparison with existing…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Problem Solving, Models, Group Behavior
Doughty Park, Linda Roxanne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Only about half of new teachers report that they feel prepared to teach reading when they enter the profession. This research study focused on six elementary teacher candidates enrolled in a reading methods course combined with a reading practicum. The teacher candidates participated in an ongoing collaborative community discussion group…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction
De Wever, Bram; Van Keer, Hilde; Schellens, Tammy; Valcke, Martin – Learning and Instruction, 2010
The present study focuses on comparing the impact of role assignment and cross-age peer tutors on students' level of knowledge construction in 15 asynchronous discussion groups of nine students each in a first-year university course (N=135). Content analysis was applied to analyse the level of knowledge construction in students' online postings.…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Tutors, Cross Age Teaching, Peer Teaching
McLoughlin, D.; Mynard, J. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2009
This paper describes a study of online discussion forums as tools for promoting higher-order thinking. The study was carried out in a women's university in the United Arab Emirates. Data, in the form of online discussion forum transcripts, were collected over a 20-week semester and were analysed according to a model developed by Garrison,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Discussion Groups, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education
