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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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Graham, Deborah A. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
As an educator teaching an online course for the first time, I observed that the teachers in my class engaged in meaningful and sincere conversation and gained deep insight and greater awareness about their practice. Sincere conversation obviously differs from brief verbal exchanges operating at the surface level. It is conversation that invites…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teacher Effectiveness, Reading Teachers, Trust (Psychology)
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Wilcox, Susan; Leger, Andy B. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
In this paper we report on research we conducted to begin the process of identifying threshold concepts in the field of postsecondary teaching. Meyer & Land (2006) propose that within all disciplinary fields there seem to be particular "threshold concepts" that serve as gateways, opening up new and previously inaccessible ways of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Concept Formation, College Faculty
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Roscoe, Keith – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2013
Several faculty members including the author were involved in exploring the implementation and effectiveness of research-based assessment strategies in their undergraduate teacher education courses at a Canadian university. The paper describes the process and the results of their ongoing improvement efforts and implications for teacher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Teacher Education, Education Courses
Carter, Lorraine M.; Brockerhoff-Macdonald, Bettina – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
The findings outlined in this paper are the result of focus groups conducted with faculty at a mid-sized Ontario university. These nine faculty, all of whom have received awards of excellence from their university for their teaching, shared their insights about how they developed as teachers over time. More specific topics explored were as…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Focus Groups