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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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Adams, Richelle V.; Blair, Erik – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
In this paper we discuss perceptions of the benefits of learner-generated podcasts for supporting postgraduate engineering students in a mathematics-intensive course. The course under study had previously been highlighted as one in which students had struggled to attain knowledge that formed an essential underpinning to their degree programme.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Engineering, Engineering Education
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Blair, Erik – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2011
Reflective practice is held to be a means of practitioner development; however the range of models of reflection do not seem to suit practitioners working in the Post-Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) sector. Current models ignore the contextuality and specificality of PCET practice and do not consider its unique practitioner-student and…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Postsecondary Education, Adult Education, Models
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Blair, Erik – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2009
Foucault suggests that there are "other spaces", heterotopias, which are located in the world we live in but are "outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality". Foucault offers examples of this concept by suggesting that prisons, brothels and boats at sea are specific spaces that are linked to, but…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Principles, Research Projects, Context Effect