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Broadly Speaking - February 17, 1998, Nova Southeastern University Feb 1998

Broadly Speaking - February 17, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Broadly Speaking - January 26, 1998, Nova Southeastern University Jan 1998

Broadly Speaking - January 26, 1998, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Problem-Based Learning: Preparing Students To Succeed In The 21st Century, Barbara J. Duch, Deborah E. Allen, Harold B. White Iii Jan 1998

Problem-Based Learning: Preparing Students To Succeed In The 21st Century, Barbara J. Duch, Deborah E. Allen, Harold B. White Iii

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

College graduates who can think critically, solve complex problems, communicate clearly, and work effectively in teams will be prepared for the challenges of the 21st century. Problem-based learning (PBL) helps students develop these crucial skills.

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Keys To Using Learning Groups Effectively, Larry K. Michaelsen Jan 1998

Keys To Using Learning Groups Effectively, Larry K. Michaelsen

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Irrespective of such factors as subject matter and class size, small group work can produce positive motivational and learning outcomes. The key is appropriately managing the variables discussed in this essay.

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Adding Online Computer Methods To Your Repertoire Of Teaching Strategies, Nancy A. Diamond Jan 1998

Adding Online Computer Methods To Your Repertoire Of Teaching Strategies, Nancy A. Diamond

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

On-line teaching methods offer interesting strategies for teaching whatever you already want to teach. This essay describes a broad range of on-line methods and details the elements necessary for their optimal use.

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Relating Student Experience To Courses And The Curriculum, Virginia S. Lee Jan 1998

Relating Student Experience To Courses And The Curriculum, Virginia S. Lee

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

This essay offers a rationale for incorporating students’ personal experience into the curriculum and techniques for doing so to facilitate both cognitive and affective curricular objectives.

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The Critical Match Between Motivation To Learn And Motivation To Teach, Ronald Teeples, Harvey Wichman Jan 1998

The Critical Match Between Motivation To Learn And Motivation To Teach, Ronald Teeples, Harvey Wichman

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Student motives to learn cannot be effectively understood as something independent of prevailing pedagogies, which are shaped by motives to teach. The authors discuss bringing these two aspects of motivation into closer congruence.

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Developing A Philosophy Of Teaching Statement, Nancy Van Note Chism Jan 1998

Developing A Philosophy Of Teaching Statement, Nancy Van Note Chism

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Suggestions are presented for preparing a statement about one’s philosophy of teaching in relationship to the preparation of a teaching portfolio. Included are ideas on developing several common components of such statements.

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Writing To Learn, Judith Kalman, Calvin Kalman Jan 1998

Writing To Learn, Judith Kalman, Calvin Kalman

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

The authors explain a technique that discourages the viewing of material as an agglomeration of disembodied facts and fosters students’ awareness of the concepts underlying the topics being discussed.

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The Effects Of An Agricultural Literacy Treatment On Participating K-12 Teachers And Their Curricula, Mark A. Balschweid, Gregory K. Thompson, R L. Cole Jan 1998

The Effects Of An Agricultural Literacy Treatment On Participating K-12 Teachers And Their Curricula, Mark A. Balschweid, Gregory K. Thompson, R L. Cole

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

Oregon State University ‘s Summer Agriculture Institute (SAI) is an agricultural literacy program aimed at Oregon 3 non-agriculture K-I2 teachers. Since the debut of this program in 1998, no study has been conducted to determine SAI ‘s effectiveness with participating K-12 teachers. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which participating teachers used the material received at SAI in their curricula, and to determine teacher perceptions of the content, structure, and usability of the agricultural literacy program presentations and materials. Additionally, the study sought to iden@ existing barriers that prevented teachers from integrating agriculture into their …

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Volume 11, Number 01, Lana Wachniak Editor Jan 1998

Volume 11, Number 01, Lana Wachniak Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 11, Number 01 of Reaching Through Teaching.

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Can Games Help Develop Mathematical Thinking?, Dilshad Ashraf, Habib Hussain, Abdul Ghafoor, Dulshon Shamatov Jan 1998

Can Games Help Develop Mathematical Thinking?, Dilshad Ashraf, Habib Hussain, Abdul Ghafoor, Dulshon Shamatov

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

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Academic Civility Begins In The Classroom, Roger G. Baldwin Jan 1998

Academic Civility Begins In The Classroom, Roger G. Baldwin

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Values and traditions supporting academic civility are learned in the classroom. This essay discusses the role of the college professor in promoting civil discourse and nurturing overall academic civility.

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Dialogue: A Qualitative Study Of A Faculty Development Intervention To Assist Faculty In Exploring The Practitioner Assumptions That Impact Their Role In Higher Education And Medical Education, Donna M. Qualters Jan 1998

Dialogue: A Qualitative Study Of A Faculty Development Intervention To Assist Faculty In Exploring The Practitioner Assumptions That Impact Their Role In Higher Education And Medical Education, Donna M. Qualters

Educational Studies Dissertations

The Dialogue study is concerned with understanding how Dialogue could be applied to faculty development. Dialogue is a structured form of group interaction developed as an organizational behavior tool (Isaacs, 1993) which creates space for practitioner assumptions to be probed and insight into practice be achieved. It provides an intervention for faculty at the pre-contemplative stage of change (Prochaska, 1986), who are not motivated to modify their practice. The study focused on self-selected multi-discipline faculty from a four year institution and a public medical school. Participants ranged in experience from one to thirty five years of practice. This study was …

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Taking Instruction Online: The Art Of Delivery, Donna R. Everett Jan 1998

Taking Instruction Online: The Art Of Delivery, Donna R. Everett

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The notion that people seek to make meaning out of their world, whether it is the classroom or the living room, is not a new one. Educational philosophers and learning theorists have attempted to explain how learners learn and construct meaning from instruction or the classroom. Stimulus-response theorists (Thorndike, Guthrie, Pavlov—as cited in Hilgard & Bower, 1966; Watson, 1960; and Skinner, 1960) view learners as reactive, passive robots only responding when stimulated by something outside of themselves. Reese & Overton (1970) propose to call this the mechanistic world view—any change in the learners comes from outside of themselves. Organismic theorists …

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Broadly Speaking - November 19, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Nov 1997

Broadly Speaking - November 19, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Broadly Speaking - October 15, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Oct 1997

Broadly Speaking - October 15, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Ngc 5291: Implications For The Formation Of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies, Benjamin K. Malphrus, Caroline E. Simpson, S. T. Gottesman, Timothy G. Hawarden Oct 1997

Ngc 5291: Implications For The Formation Of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies, Benjamin K. Malphrus, Caroline E. Simpson, S. T. Gottesman, Timothy G. Hawarden

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

The possible formation and evolution of dwarf irregular galaxies from material derived from perturbed evolved galaxies is addressed via an HI study of a likely example, the peculiar system NGC 5291. This system, located in the western outskirts of the cluster Abell 3574, contains the lenticular galaxy NGC 5291 which is in close proximity to a disturbed companion and is flanked by an extensive complex of numerous knots extending roughly 4' north and 4' south of the galaxy. In an initial optical and radio study, Longmore et al. (1979, MNRAS, 188, 285) showed that these knots have the spectra of …

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Broadly Speaking - September 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Sep 1997

Broadly Speaking - September 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Volume 10, Number 02, Lana Wachniak Editor May 1997

Volume 10, Number 02, Lana Wachniak Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 10, Number 02 of Reaching Through Teaching.

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Broadly Speaking - April 22, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Apr 1997

Broadly Speaking - April 22, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Broadly Speaking - April Fools' Day, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Apr 1997

Broadly Speaking - April Fools' Day, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Broadly Speaking - March 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University Mar 1997

Broadly Speaking - March 10, 1997, Nova Southeastern University

Broadly Speaking

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Leading The Seminar: Graduate And Undergraduate, Edward Neal Jan 1997

Leading The Seminar: Graduate And Undergraduate, Edward Neal

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

This essay provides a framework for planning and leading effective seminars and addresses the differences between graduate and undergraduate seminar instruction.

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Simulating, Experiencing, And Changing Biased Teaching Behaviors, Laura L. B. Border Jan 1997

Simulating, Experiencing, And Changing Biased Teaching Behaviors, Laura L. B. Border

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Increased awareness of biased teaching behaviors and effects on students can motivate instructors to become conscious of and change their own biased teaching patterns. Nonbiased teaching is subsequently reinforced and students performance enhanced.

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Metaphors We Teach By: Understanding Ourselves As Teachers And Learners, Mary Ann Bowman Jan 1997

Metaphors We Teach By: Understanding Ourselves As Teachers And Learners, Mary Ann Bowman

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Our metaphors of teaching and learning express our views of the roles of teachers and students. Becoming conscious of our own metaphors is an important first step to self-awareness and positive change.

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The Phenomenon Of Large Classes And Practical Suggestions For Teaching Them, Frank Gillespie Jan 1997

The Phenomenon Of Large Classes And Practical Suggestions For Teaching Them, Frank Gillespie

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Large classes are a phenomenon of higher education today. However, large does not preclude providing an effective teaching and learning environment. The environment can be analyzed, good teaching can be modeled, and practical strategies offered.

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Challenges In Using Technology For The Improvement Of Undergraduate Education, G. Roger Sell Jan 1997

Challenges In Using Technology For The Improvement Of Undergraduate Education, G. Roger Sell

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

We may believe that access to more information will improve undergraduate education, but students conceptual foundations and critical thinking skills are essential for using information technologies and constructing knowledge.

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Volume 10, Number 01, Lana Wachniak Editor Jan 1997

Volume 10, Number 01, Lana Wachniak Editor

Reaching Through Teaching

Full text of Volume 10, Number 01 of Reaching Through Teaching.

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Cracks In The Ivory Tower: Conflict Management In The Classroom -- And Beyond, Susan A. Holton Jan 1997

Cracks In The Ivory Tower: Conflict Management In The Classroom -- And Beyond, Susan A. Holton

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

The very nature of the classroom with its power imbalance and differing expectations can engender conflict. What are the warning signs, and what might we do manage the inevitable conflict?

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