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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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Trigwell, Keith; Prosser, Michael; Ginns, Paul – Higher Education Research and Development, 2005
The "Approaches to teaching inventory" (ATI) is now being widely used as an instrument for formally monitoring approaches to teaching. A lesser-known use is as a stimulant for discussion among groups of teachers to raise awareness of the variation in qualitatively different ways of approaching teaching. The phenomenographic origins of the ATI are…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Learning Theories, Philosophy, Teaching Methods
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Trigwell, Keith; Prosser, Michael – Higher Education Research and Development, 1997
Uses a phenomenographic perspective to interpret and integrate the results of relational research in analyzing the experiences of teaching and learning in higher education. Describes conditions associated with two qualitatively different approaches to teaching that are associated with differences in the quality of student learning. Argues that…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Research, Epistemology, Higher Education
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Prosser, Michael – Higher Education Research and Development, 1993
The relationship between phenomenography, an approach to research that aims to identify and describe individuals' qualitatively different experiences, and learning is examined. A number of problems in teaching and learning are then explored from this perspective. It is stressed that students' unique experiences are fundamental to what they learn.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Theories