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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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Teaching To Promote Intellectual and Personal Maturity: Incorporating Students' Worldviews and Identities into the Learning Process. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
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Magolda, Marcia B. Baxter, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
This volume offers an alternative diagnosis of the expectations gap that exists between students and professors. Professors' expectations often go far beyond students' assumptions about the nature of knowledge. It is not what students think but rather how they think that is important in the learning process. How students make meaning mediates how…
Descriptors: Black Students, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Strategies for Energizing Large Classes: From Small Groups to Learning Communities. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
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MacGregor, Jean, Ed.; Cooper, James L., Ed.; Smith, Karl A., Ed.; Robinson, Pamela, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
This volume is a synthesis of interviews conducted with 48 teachers who are infusing their large classes (over 100 students) with small-group activities or are working explicitly to create student communities within large classes. The chapters are: chapter 1, "The Argument for Making Large Classes Seem Small" (James L. Cooper and Pamela Robinson);…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Organization, Class Size, Large Group Instruction
Principles of Effective Teaching in the Online Classroom. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
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Weiss, Renee E., Ed.; Knowlton, Dave S., Ed.; Speck, Bruce W., Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
This volume highlights the challenges that electronic classrooms pose to faculty and students. The papers discuss both the pedagogy and the design of online courses. The 11 papers include: (1) "A Theoretical Framework for the Online Classroom: A Defense and Delineation of a Student-Centered Pedagogy" (Dave S. Knowlton); (2) "Designing Instruction…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Faculty, College Students, Computer Uses in Education
Teaching and Learning at a Distance: What it Takes To Effectively Design, Deliver, and Evaluate Programs.
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Cyrs, Thomas E., Ed.; Menges, Robert J., Ed.; Svinicki, Marilla D., Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997
In this volume, experienced distance educators provide insights into new trends in computer-based teaching and learning in postsecondary education. The book is divided into four parts: (1) Issues and Trends; (2) Instructional Design Principles for Distance Learning; (3) Alternative Delivery Systems for Distance Learning; and (4) Administrative…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Computer Assisted Instruction, Copyrights, Delivery Systems