y and perhaps reconsider previously held This paper examines one such approach in online learning, where an alternative pedagogy was utilized to offer opportunities for rich and sustained dialogue amongst the teachers (participants in the study) involved in a course, Reflective Practice for Teachers. The pedagogy referred to in this study is predicated on Fenwick’s (2005) notion that pedagogy i...

In an attempt to liberate teachers from deficiencies of the conventional methods, Kumaravadivelu (1994) proposed the concept of “post method condition” to overcome the challenges caused by the very nature of methods. The literature regarding post-method pedagogy has indicated that most of the studies focus on its theoretical aspect, while the practical realization has been largely untouched. To...

Acceptance of cloud systems as the future has given way to a large number of cloud application installations. They have their presence across domains be it banking, gaming, education and others. A cloud based solution brings down the cost of ownership and maintenance for the host organization. For the users a resilience to use any type of end device being it a workstation, laptop, netbook or ev...

A fundamental artifact of any academic research is the data used as the basis of that research effort. A group of researchers, from institutions in multiple territories, has embarked on an ambitious research project that is aimed at enhancing the teaching of software engineering in four-year undergraduate programs. The research project details a set of objective, with the first being the captur...

The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIU-SOM) has utilized problem-based learning (PBL) in its curriculum since 1981, when Dr. Howard Barrows joined the faculty. From 1989 to 2000, SIU-SOM implemented two parallel curricula for the basic science years (years I and II), one curriculum being a problem-based learning curriculum (PBLC). An executive decision to design and implement ...

The algebra-based introductory statistics course is the most popular undergraduate course in statistics and has a generally accepted “consensus” curriculum. While the content of the curriculum has been generally agreed upon, the recent GAISE guidelines have challenged the pedagogy of this course. Additionally, some arguments have been made that the curriculum should focus on a randomization app...

Teaching game studies has proven to be difficult. There is a marked difference between the fairly uniform professional and fan culture perception of games, and the scholarly perspective that most teachers will foster in a classroom setting. I argue that game analysis has the potential of being the signature pedagogy of game studies; that is, the practice through which students acquire theory in...

This paper extends the theoretical framework underlying the Community Informatics (CI) Studio. The CI Studio has been described as the use of studio-based learning (SBL) techniques to support enculturation into the field of CI. The SBL approach, closely related to John Dewey’s inquiry-based learning, is rooted in the apprenticeship model of learning in which students study with master designers...

Wedding invitations (WIs), as a uniquely socially and culturally constructed genre, provide a distinct opportunity  to  compare  the  sociocultural values of different  speech  communities  as reflected  in  the  textual  content  and  organization  of  the  different  moves.  Students  can  be exposed  to  this  genre  and  its  different moves  using  a  genre-based  pedagogy. Genre-based ped...

Malcolm Knowles' theory of andragogy has gained increasing acceptance among nurse educators. Andragogy is espoused as a progressive educational theory, adopted as a theoretical underpinning for curricula and is even considered to be synonymous with a variety of teaching techniques and strategies such as 'problem-based' and 'self-directed' learning. This paper offers a critique of the notion of ...