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Sonia Santoveña-Casal; Javier Gil-Quintana; José Javier Hueso-Romero – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2024
Purpose: Microteaching is a teacher training method based on microclasses (groups of four or five students) and microlessons lasting no more than 5-20 min. Since it was first explored in the late 20th century in experiments at Stanford University, microteaching has evolved at the interdisciplinary level. The purpose of this paper is to examine the…
Descriptors: Microteaching, Networks, Higher Education, Electronic Learning
Cristyne Hébert; Trudy Keil – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2025
This pilot project examines the experiences of a small sample (n = 4) of elementary pre-service teachers (PSTs) as they designed and attempted to implement a series of short lessons, or mini-units, using Ozobots or Makey Makeys during their field experience. Results indicated that, despite the fact that none of the PSTs were able to deliver their…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Technology Uses in Education
OECD Publishing, 2021
The OECD Career Readiness project makes use of quantitative evidence to investigate how teenage career-related activities and attitudes are associated with better adult employment outcomes. Review of multiple national longitudinal datasets confirms 11 indicators of better outcomes linked to the ways in which teenagers explore, experience and think…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Employment
Kops, William J. – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2014
This study provides insight into how highly rated instructors approached teaching compressed summer session courses, and offers a set of best practices that others might use when teaching in similar settings. Top-rated instructors indicated differences in the way they taught compressed-format summer session courses, with respect to course…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Teaching Methods, Best Practices, Benchmarking
Poole, Heather; Khan, Ayesha; Agnew, Michael – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2017
More and more Canadian post-secondary institutions are introducing a fall break into their term calendars. In 2015, a full week fall break was introduced at our university in order to enhance academic performance and improve mental health amongst students. Our interdisciplinary team surveyed undergraduate students at our university about their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Undergraduate Students
Ostashewski, Nathaniel; Moisey, Susan; Reid, Doug – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
This report explores the first iteration of a teacher professional development courselet grounded in constructionist theory and activities. This online teacher professional development (oTPD) courselet provided opportunities for teachers to engage in just-in-time, ongoing TPD within a social networking site for educators. The topic of the oTPD was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Web Based Instruction
Lowe, Mandy; Rappolt, Susan; Jaglal, Susan; MacDonald, Geraldine – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2007
Introduction: Although the use of reflection to facilitate learning and its application in practice has been widely advocated, there is little empirical research to establish whether or not health professionals use reflection to integrate learning into clinical practice. Particularly troublesome is the lack of empirically based theory underlying…
Descriptors: Minicourses, Occupational Therapy, Health Personnel, Continuing Education
Rivard, Jean – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1976
A short course designed to assist trainers in solving some of the problems they face transmitting knowledge to students is described. (EC)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Foreign Countries, Minicourses, Teacher Improvement

Hayward, R. S. A.; Honer, W. G. – Journal of Medical Education, 1985
The establishment of a minicourse of four three-hour sessions devoted to the examination and debate of selected ethical issues at Queen's University is described. Students chose topics for discussion and organized debates between faculty and community members. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Debate, Ethics, Foreign Countries
Jacobsen, Michele; Bilan, Bohdan J. – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes a 4-day outdoor summer workshop for 9 Native Canadians, ages 10 to 17, which focused on traditional Native storytelling. Notes that the students learned to use computer-based multimedia and published interactive multimedia versions of their Native stories. (SR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Canada Natives, Children
Lane, C. H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
This bulletin discusses the status of agricultural education from 1916-1918. Contents include: (1) Agriculture in secondary schools; (2) The elementary schools; (3) Agricultural education at meetings; (4) Agricultural education in other countries; (5) Educational work of the Department of Agriculture; (6) The agricultural colleges; (7)…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agriculture, Agricultural Colleges, Minicourses

White, Donald J. – Canadian Library Journal, 1979
Examines the library short course orientation program for support staff, primarily secretaries, administrative assistants and researchers, teaching and laboratory assistants, at the University of Victoria; summarizes course evaluations, and poses suggestions for program improvement. (CWM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Stamper, Anne – 1998
This book traces the Women's Institute (WI's) movement and its contribution to the lifelong learning of rural women for 100 years and how it led to the opening of Denman College in 1948. Part 1 describes the following: WI's start in Canada; its move to England and Wales; the women who molded and guided the WI after the First World War; education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, General Education
Canadian Teachers' Federation, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1976
Continuing education for teachers was the theme for the University of British Columbia Conference on Teacher Education, chosen because of growing concern with the question of what forms continuing education should take once all teachers hold degrees. The conference did not attempt to provide definitive answers to the questions: Is graduate study…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Continuing Education Centers, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education
Leslie, Susan; Edwards, Peter – 1973
The second year (1972-1973) of a three-year evaluation of University Hill Secondary School, three areas of the program were examined: a survey was made of the use of community resources; a study of the adaptability of Grade Eight students to the individualized program; the performance of students on alternative forms of the same standardized test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Resources, Educational Change, Experimental Programs