Many graduate and professional programs include Problem Based Learning (PBL) as a mainstay in their curricula. For many undergraduate students, this is a change from a teacher-centered to a student-centered learning method. This study was undertaken to learn about perceptions and test performances of college students (N=116) enrolled in liberal education classes when PBL is used vs. traditional...

As more and more colleges and universities offer courses designed in the e-learning format, quality of instruction and student performance are becoming, progressively more, issues that need to be addressed. This study is an attempt to add to the literature on student performance in traditional and e-learning environments as well as exploring student-centered and learner-centered as an instructi...

According to the ICEM movement, several teachers from Université du Mans propose a pedagogy based on a collaborative learning principle between the students. The classical French teaching model has been replaced for 2 years by an alternative method including the four following steps : i) individual silent lecture of the lesson to discover the main concepts, ii) session of questions and answers ...

Service learning is a rapidly growing pedagogy in higher education and has come under increased visibility within engineering and computer science. Service-learning has been cited as a potential tool for increasing student engagement as well as diversity among our engineering, technology and computing student bodies. It has opportunities to excite the next generation of engineers, addressing is...

In recent years, providers of massage therapy education have, in growing numbers, started to use online technologies to support the learning processes of their students. Using a narrative review of the existing online learning literature, this paper aims to provide a solid pedagogical foundation for these early explorations. It identifies five key factors-instructional pedagogy, quality of inst...

eLearning collaborative pedagogy assumes that interaction is important for successful courses, yet questions exist regarding the nature and extent of the interaction and its effects on student performance. Although the majority of past studies focus on students’ perceptions of the quality and quantity of their interactions and the benefits they gained in e-learning, no research has examined the...

The author’s experience in designing and teaching an introduction to educational psychology course on-line to 23 undergraduate education majors is discussed in this paper. Due to the curricular content of this course (i.e., the psychology of teaching and learning), critical issues about the similarities and differences of teaching and learning within traditional classrooms and electronic enviro...

Education reforms targeted to promote creativity in schools are often confronted with the problem of translating policy into practice. The distinction between creative teaching and teaching for creativity highlights the relative lack of attention to creative teaching, which could lead to teaching for creativity and student creativity. It is suggested that by making explicit the numerous context...

Over the last ten years that I have been involved in geography teacher education I have become increasingly aware of a lack of willingness amongst student teachers to engage in the continued study of geography or of geographies at the teaching practice stage. Often new student teachers are more focused, unsurprisingly, on the practice of teaching because this is what worries them. Therefore we ...