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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 Design-Based Research Case Study Documenting a Constructivist ID Process and Instructional Solution for a Cross-Cultural Workforce
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Tracey, Monica W.; Unger, Kelly L. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
As the need for instructing a globalized workforce increases, instructional designers must embrace the constraints and the opportunities these projects provide in order to move the field of cross-cultural instructional design (ID) forward. Cross-cultural projects offer multiple avenues for growth in ID practice, overcoming cultural barriers, and a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design, Labor Force Development
Learning Study: Helping Teachers to Use Theory, Develop Professionally, and Produce New Knowledge to Be Shared
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Pang, Ming Fai; Ling, Lo Mun – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2012
The lesson study approach is a systematic process for producing professional knowledge about teaching by teachers, and has spread rapidly and extensively in the United States. The learning study approach is essentially a kind of lesson study with an explicit learning theory--the variation theory of learning. In this paper, we argue that having an…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, Learning Theories, Faculty Development