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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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A Shared Experience: An Interdisciplinary Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care
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Mcvicar, Andrew; Caan, Woody; Hillier, Dawn; Munn-Giddings, Carol; Ramon, Shulamit; Winter, Richard – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2006
This paper describes the development of an innovative interprofessional doctorate in health and social care, within an academic framework designed explicitly to ensure that candidates must demonstrate qualities of cognitive application commensurate with doctoral study, yet must also meet the practice-focused outcomes of a professional doctorate.…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Doctoral Programs, Professional Development, Doctoral Degrees
Contextualizing the Patchwork Text: Addressing Problems of Coursework Assessment in Higher Education.
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Winter, Richard – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Outlines the procedures of the Patchwork Text coursework assignment format, discussed in the articles of this special issue, and presents a general justification of their current educational importance. Reviews current literature on assessment processes in higher education and discusses work on the nature of "academic literacies." Compares the…
Descriptors: Assignments, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Course Content
Applied Epistemology for Community Nurses: Evaluating the Impact of the Patchwork Text.
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Smith, Lesley; Winter, Richard – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2003
Evaluates use of the Patchwork Text assessment format in a module taught at the beginning of a post-qualifying degree program for community specialist nurses. The aim of the module was to provide students with a theoretical understanding of the different types of knowledge that might inform their practice. Comparative material is presented to show…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Epistemology, Evaluation Criteria
Learning from the Patchwork Text Process--A Retrospective Discussion.
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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