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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Hart, Adam G.; Stafford, Richard; Goodenough, Anne E. – Bioscience Education, 2011
An artificial, and generally unhelpful, divide between lecturers and students frequently occurs in higher education, especially among recent school-leavers. Bridging that divide allows lecturers and students to develop collaboratively to the benefit of both parties. Residential field courses provide an important forum to develop more mature…
Descriptors: Student Development, Lecture Method, Higher Education, Teacher Student Relationship
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Stafford, Richard; Goodenough, Anne E.; Davies, Mark S. – Bioscience Education, 2010
Designing manipulative ecological experiments is a complex and time-consuming process that is problematic to teach in traditional undergraduate classes. This study investigates the effectiveness of using a computer simulation--the Virtual Rocky Shore (VRS)--to facilitate rapid, student-centred learning of experimental design. We gave a series of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Research Design, Computer Simulation, Experiential Learning