One of the unprecedented benefits of campus-wide distance learning strategies has been the incorporation of more technology-based pedagogy into traditional classrooms, thus, increasing faculty and student teaching and learning opportunities. This “hybrid” or “blended” teaching has emerged largely due to a desire to widen access to educational opportunities, continuing education, and university ...

This paper will share the results of research assessing the outcomes of teaching toward an ethnorelative worldview through psychology study abroad. Action research assessing the efficacy of intercultural pedagogy integrating psychology and the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS, Bennett,1986) using the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI, Hammer & Bennett, 1998, 2002) w...

A question was posted on ISWorld, asking: “Do you or your IS program have any unique, interesting ways that you are interacting with the business community?” Over 50 people responded with interesting and successful activities. The activities can be grouped into six categories: (1) student-centered initiatives, (2) instruction-centered initiatives, (3) externally funded, high tech laboratories, ...

Engagement has been viewed as an important construct to understand students’ learning performances in classroom settings. Taking an interactive perspective, the study investigates ninth graders’ cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement in teacher-centered (TC) and student-centered (SC) technology-enhanced classrooms. 54 students from two science classes in Taiwan participated in this stu...

Child-centered pedagogy is at the ideological core of progressive education. The simple idea that the child rather than the teacher or textbook should be the major focus of the classroom is, perhaps, the single most enduring educational idea of the era. In this historical study, the author argues that childcentered education emerged directly from the theory of recapitulation, the idea that the ...

Literature teaching means to train our students read, think, analyze and approach literary issues as trained specialists. Each course has specific objectives we plan didactic activities engage in meeting these objectives. The formal theories of literature can be roughly divided into subject-centered theories, teacher-centered student-centered but very few teachers apply a single theory fiction,...

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...

There exists empirical evidence proving that students who are given the freedom to explore areas based on their personal interests, and who are accompanied in their learning by a supportive, understanding facilitator, not only achieve superior academic results but also develop socially and grow personally. However, pure Student-Centered Teaching is more demanding in terms of communication, orga...