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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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Parker, Jan – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Describes the rewards and challenges of using the Patchwork Text to teach Greek Tragedy to Cambridge University English final-year students. The article uses close reading of the students' texts, analysis and reflection to discuss both the products and the process of Patchwork writing. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Assignments, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, English Literature
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Akister, Jane; Illes, Katalin; Maisch, Maire; McKenzie, Janet; Ovens, Peter; Parker, Jan; Rees, Bronwen; Smith, Lesley; Winter, Richard – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Participants who used the Patchwork Text process in their different educational contexts individually prepared statements of specific ideas that had emerged from their work and presented them in a spoken forum; the occasion was tape-recorded and transcribed, and the transcription was then edited. This article presents a joint statement about what…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Parker, Jan – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
This "quasi-conclusion" is a patchwork of comments and claims about the nature and larger implications of "patchworking" from the preceding articles in this special issue on the Patchwork Text process, and from the records of discussions which the team of researchers held over the nearly three years of the project. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education