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Direct linkLee, Virginia S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) has widespread appeal in higher education as a suite of teaching strategies that promotes learning through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues using the methods of inquiry of the disciplines. Framed as especially appropriate for research universities, IGL has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
Hovorka, Alice Judith – Journal of Geography, 2009
Through an instructional approach, this article offers a template for a classroom-based geography capstone course grounded in pedagogical elements of synthesis and reflection, as based on exploration of ten key geographic ideas. It provides insights into course goals, structure, and components for instructors who may wish to implement it in…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geography, College Curriculum, College Instruction
Justice, Christopher; Rice, James; Roy, Dale; Hudspith, Bob; Jenkins, Herb – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2009
Inquiry-based learning is one approach to improving the quality of undergraduate education by moving toward more student-directed, interactive methods of learning while focusing on learning how to learn. This paper deals with a missing component in the inquiry-related literature--the extra-pedagogical challenges of introducing and maintaining…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Learning Strategies, Inquiry, Active Learning
Download full textWood, Leigh; Solomonides, Ian – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2008
There is not just one mathematics taught at university level, nor is there one group of students. Mathematics is taught differently depending on the discipline and the perceived background of the student. There is engineering mathematics for the students heading towards engineering degrees, life science mathematics for those heading towards…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Intellectual Disciplines, Education Work Relationship, Relevance (Education)
Beaumier, Jean-Paul; Biron, Joce-Lyne; Poulin, Micheline; Moisan, Claude; Chene, Louise – 1997
This report provides a guide for evaluation of the implementation of the general education component of programs of studies in Quebec. The college education reform of 1993 has had a particularly strong impact on the general education component of education programs. To gauge the scope of changes made to general education and of efforts made to…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Education Courses, Foreign Countries
Mendoza, Lionel P., Ed.; Williams, Edgar R., Ed. – 1988
These conference proceedings include three invited lectures, a panel discussion, three working group reports, two reports from topic groups and a participant list. The invited lectures include a discussion of the impact of calculators on the calculus curriculum (Herbert S. Wilf); a consideration of the role of misconceptions in learning…
Descriptors: Calculators, Calculus, College Curriculum, College Instruction
Conseil des Colleges, Quebec (Quebec). – 1992
Designed to provide Quebec's community colleges with more precise information and a better understanding of their educational options, this report presents a description and analysis of the educational systems for the 12th through 14th years of schooling in England, France, Germany, Norway, the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Ontario,…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students
Fuchs, C.; Wilcock, A.; Aung, M. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2004
This study was designed to identify the skills and knowledge deemed important for food safety professionals and the degree to which the Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) program at the Univ. of Guelph helps students to develop these skills. The research included 2 phases: interviews were conducted to identify these skill and knowledge…
Descriptors: Safety, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Tight, Malcolm, Ed.; Mok, Ka Ho, Ed.; Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Morphew, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Progress, Higher Education, Political Science
Conseil des Colleges, Quebec (Quebec). – 1990
The quality of language is a matter of concern in numerous educational systems throughout the world. In Quebec, questions of the health of both the French and English languages take on particular importance. This report makes a series of proposals to the Ministry of Higher Education and Science designed to ensure the coherence and quality of…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
PDF pending restorationHouwing, J. F., Ed.; Kristjanson, A. M., Ed. – 1980
This eighth edition of the annual inventory of research on higher education in Canada contains descriptions of over 380 research, innovative, and experimental projects currently in progress or completed in 1979. The projects, entered in the language in which they were reported (English or French), are in six categories: general (accreditation,…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Administrative Organization, Adult Education, College Administration
PDF pending restorationHouwing, J. F., Ed.; Kristjanson, A. M., Ed. – 1979
A total of 263 research, innovative, and experimental projects are described that are concerned with postsecondary education in Canada and that are currently in progress or have been completed in the course of 1978. The information was obtained from a questionnaire mailed to some 1900 potential contributors in universities, community colleges,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Education, College Administration, College Curriculum
