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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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Malau-Aduli, Bunmi S.; Assenheimer, Dwight; Choi-Lundberg, Derek; Zimitat, Craig – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
The massification of higher education (HE) has led to an unprecedented increase in the number of students in the classrooms, resulting in increased workload for teaching staff, sometimes leading to a great reliance on Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) examinations with limited feedback provided to students. The central role of feedback in student…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Improvement
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Fowler, Jane; Zimitat, Craig – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2008
Common Time (CT) was a structured programme designed to enhance the social and academic engagement of a growingly diverse student body on a new campus that draws its population from a low-socioeconomic area. As a voluntary and non-remedial programme, it incorporated a range of formal and informal activities and processes to engage students. CT…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Academic Achievement, Intellectual Development, Partnerships in Education
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Zimitat, Craig – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2007
Case studies are an important vehicle for student learning in problem-based learning curricula and higher education. "WebCaseStudy.com" was designed to support student learning through case studies in a simulated community of practice. This paper reports on the process of capturing community of practice knowledge for case studies to support…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Case Studies, Educational Technology