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Mesquita, Anabela, Ed.; Peres, Paula, Ed. – IGI Global, 2015
In recent years, technological advancements have enabled higher-learning institutions to offer millions of independent learners the opportunity to participate in open-access online courses. As this practice expands, drawing considerable media attention, questions continue to arise regarding pedagogical methodology and the long-term viability of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Continuing Education, Learning Theories
Guilherme, Manuela – 2000
This book explores the development of critical cultural awareness through the process of teaching and learning about foreign cultures. It draws upon theoretical foundations relating to inter- and intra-cultural communication from contemporary philosophical movements, namely critical theory and postmodernism. The study adopts critical pedagogy as…
Descriptors: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Cultural Awareness
Etzkowitz, Henry, Ed.; Webster, Andrew, Ed.; Healey, Peter, Ed. – 1998
This collection of 10 papers provides a comparative analysis of the role of academic-industry relations in innovative educational systems in Eastern Europe, Ibero-America (Latin America, Spain, and Portugal), Russia, and Scotland, as well as in the United States. It arose from a series of conferences, beginning with a 1991 NATO workshop on…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cooperative Programs, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
Schuyten, G., Ed.; Valcke, M., Ed. – 1990
This book is the result of a cooperative project of several European countries--Belgium, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Each country involved provides a chapter outlining a national project or a specific organization presents its own approach and initiatives to teacher education, with particular…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Education Courses