Removing the Barriers for Students with Disabilities: Accessible Online and Web‐Enhanced Courses     

Cindy Tandy PhD  Mike Meacham 《Journal of Teaching in Social Work》2013,33(3):313-328

The concern of this article is the difficulties faced by disabled students as technology grows and expands in academia. Although distance learning, web‐based courses, and hybrid courses, among other venues, have improved the chances for many people suffering disabilities for obtaining degrees and thereby increasing their life chances, we have met new challenges as well. This work will consider the growth of these technologies and some of the difficulties they present to particular groups of students. Also, the article will explore methods of overcoming many of these problems. Finally, a general method of working with these students and their special needs is drawn from existing literature.  相似文献   

Fifth Graders’ Learning About Simple Machines Through Engineering Design-Based Instruction Using LEGO™ Materials     

Ismail Marulcu  Mike Barnett 《Research in Science Education》2013,43(5):1825-1850

This study is part of a 5-year National Science Foundation-funded project, Transforming Elementary Science Learning Through LEGO? Engineering Design. In this study, we report on the successes and challenges of implementing an engineering design-based and LEGO?-oriented unit in an urban classroom setting and we focus on the impact of the unit on students’ content understanding of simple machines. The LEGO? engineering-based simple machines module, which was developed for fifth graders by our research team, was implemented in an urban school in a large city in the Northeastern region of the USA. Thirty-three fifth grade students participated in the study, and they showed significant growth in content understanding. We measured students’ content knowledge by using identical paper tests and semistructured interviews before and after instruction. Our paired t test analysis results showed that students significantly improved their test and interview scores (t?=??3.62, p?<?0.001 for multiple-choice items and t?=??9.06, p?<?0.000 for the open-ended items in the test and t?=??12.11, p?<?0.000 for the items in interviews). We also identified several alternative conceptions that are held by students on simple machines.  相似文献   

The Learning Company   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Mike Pedler  Tom Boydell  John Burgoyne 《Studies in Continuing Education》2013,35(2):91-101

The learning company is an organisation which facilitates the learning of all of its members and continuously transforms itself in order to meet its strategic goals. The paper introduces the concept of the learning company and examines its relevance in modern industrial society. A study of Director‐level personnel in eight large public and private sector organisations in the United Kingdom provides support for the concept. Following a discussion of the learning company as an organisational transformation, guidelines for designing learning companies are proposed.  相似文献   

Reconstructing educational theory from the authority of personal experience: how can I best help people learn to teach?     

Tom Russell 《Studies in Continuing Education》2013,35(1-2):6-17

This paper reports data from a three‐year self‐study of teaching two types of students: science method students in theBEd program at Queen's University (Canada), and grade 12 physics students in a secondary school. By returning to the secondary school classroom after many years, I had the opportunity to revisit personally some of the challenges and dilemmas awaiting those beginning their careers as physics teachers. By listening closely to my students, I studied their experiences of learning as I experienced my own ‘re‐learning. One goal of my return to the secondary classroom was to explore ways in which I could model in my own teaching the processes of learning from experience that I wanted to convey to those learning to teach.

From this self‐study has emerged the construct of'authority of experience’ (Munby and Russell, 1994) as a term that can inform reflective practice by suggesting to teachers that they give attention to their own voices and to those of their students, and generally consider the ways in which experience has authority in relation to other sources of authority about teaching and learning to teach. The paper provides data to illustrate this construct and its potential value to those learning to teach. It also considers ways in which this stance toward teacher education represents a reconstruction of educational theory.  相似文献   

Stocking one's mental larder     

Warren I. Titus  Jack W. Miller  Richard Brozovich  Beatrice M. Clutch  Anna Loe Russell 《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(5):312-313

Themes, Theories, and Theraphy: The Teaching of Writing in College. Albert R. Kitzhaber. (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1963. Pp. 175. $4.95.)

The Nongraded Elementary School, Revised Edition. John I. Goodlad and Robert H. Anderson. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1963. Pp. 248. $1.95, paper.)

Human Learning in the School. John P. DeCecco. (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963. Pp. 636. $4.75.)

Health Instruction for Today's Schools. Dorothy Marguerite La Salle and Gladys Greer. (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, 1963. Pp. 368. $6.75.)

Lovejoy's Prep School Guide. Clarence E. Lovejoy. (New York: Harper and Row, 1963. Pp. 136. $5.95.)

Health Teaching in the Schools, fourth edition. Ruth E. Grout. (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders and Company, 1963. Pp. 415. $6.75.)  相似文献   

Content and method     

Anna Loe Russell  T. P. Yeatman  Ray E. Bruce  Gurney Chambers  Mohammed Sabie  Josephine H. Magnifico 《Peabody Journal of Education》2013,88(3):184-185

Educational Sociology: A Subject Index of Doctoral Dissertations Completed at American Universities, 1941–1963. Francesco Cordasco and Leonard Covello, compilers. (New York: Scarcecrow Press, 1965. Pp. 226. $5.00.)

The Prospective Teacher's Knowledge of Library Fundamentals. Ralph Perkins. (New York: Scarcecrow Press, 1965. Pp. 202. $4.50.)

Adolescents and the Schools. James S. Coleman. (New York: Basic Books, 1965. Pp. 121. $4.50.)

The Emergent in Curriculum. Gail M. Inlow. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1966. Pp. 353. $6.95.)

Studying History: How and Why. Robert V. Daniels. (New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1966. Pp. 105. $1.50. Paperback)

Physical Education: A Problem‐Solving Approach to Health and Fitness. Perry B. Johnson and others. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Pp. 486. $6.95.)

Teaching Contemporary Mathematics in the Elementary School. Charles F. Howard and Enoch Dumas. (New York: Harper and Row, 1966. Pp. 309. $7.50.)

Education in Metropolitan Areas. Robert J. Havighurst. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1966. Pp. 260. $3.50 Paperback)

The Adolescent Experience. Elizabeth Douvan and Joseph Adelson. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1966. Pp. 471. $7.95.)  相似文献   

Identifying complex cultural interactions in the instructional design process: a case study of a cross-border, cross-sector training for innovation program     

L. Roxanne Russell  Wanjira L. Kinuthia  Anissa Lokey-Vega  Winnie Tsang-Kosma  Reeny Madathany 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2013,61(4):707-732

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Involved Parents' Perceptions of Their Experiences in School-Based Team Meetings     

Shelley L. Esquivel  Carey S. Ryan  Mike Bonner 《Journal of educational and psychological consultation》2013,23(3):234-258

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What expert teachers do: enhancing professional knowledge for classroom practice     

Tom Russell 《Teaching Education》2013,24(1):105-107

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Evaluating Technology-Supported Teaching Learning: A Catalyst to Organizational Change     

Mike Dobson  Janet McCracken  William Hunter 《Interactive Learning Environments》2013,21(2):143-170

Lessons Learned1 1 The name of the project was deliberately chosen to focus attention on the organizational learned outcomes expected from the initiative. The paper makes an adjective from the project title to form, lessons learned team, lessons learned project and lessons learned materials. This was a feature of the project and we hope it does not distract the reader. was a provincially funded educational technology project based at the University of Calgary in Canada. Within a broader technology-enhanced learning program, Lessons Learned set out to provide project development support, evaluation support, and dissemination mechanisms. The paper describes some of the resources and communication structures provided. A short case study reviews the benefit of the approach through the experience of evaluating a virtual reality multimedia toolkit developed for use in biological science. We make several observations about the role of evaluation as a catalyst to improved teaching and learning as well as its contribution to desirable organizational change.  相似文献