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The subscription ideas focus on practical teaching issues, including applications of
technology. The readings on constructivism (and social constructivism) supply
primary and secondary documents on the most modern of educational theories.
 | Subscription Ideas: Free subscriptions to technology
journals and inexpensive subscriptions to newsletters on college teaching
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| Readings
on Constructivism: Besides the definitions, readings,
focus on Lev Vygotsky's excerpts, and corollary websites, you might want to start with
this overview of the
similarities and differences among behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism.
 | Here's a question to reflect on after you've done a bit
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Are behaviorism, cognitivism, and
constructivism three viable theories of education from which faculty should choose
eclectically to ground suit principles to instructional design? OR
Is constructivism evolutionarily superior to behaviorism and cognitivism which ran their
course earlier in the century but were not suitable for explaining education for the next
century? |
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| Most of the books in the ASHE-ERIC series from George Washington University are
worth their weight in gold.
Here are sample summary-reviews for books I strongly recommend to
any faculty. Click on the title to go to the summary-review.
| Lion F. Gardiner, Redesigning Higher
Education:Producing Dramatic Gains in Student Learning (ASHE-ERIC Higher
Education Report, Vol. 23, No. 7. Washington, D.C.: The George Washington
University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development). {reviewed by Eric
Hibbison}
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| Charles C. Bonwell and James Eison, Active Learning: Creating Excitement in
the Classroom. (ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, Vol. 20 No. 1. Washington,
D.C.: The George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human
Development) {Summary: ERIC Digests}
 | Presents active learning as a teaching method that results in greater
student involvement and knowledge retention than traditional methods. Includes
modifications to traditional lectures, alternative lecture formats, barriers to the use of
active learning, additional active learning strategies,
and more.
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