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The Benefits of Practical Experience: Using Reflective Practitioner-Faculty in Graduate Programs
(CreateSpace, 2013)
There are substantial benefits of a pedagogical cycle in which reflective practitioner-faculty use real-world application of skills to enhance adult student learning. By professionally engaging in the fields in which they ...
Strategies for Engaging the Adult Learner
(CreateSpace, 2013)
Students demonstrate their level of engagement in three ways: behavioral engagement, cognitive engagement, and emotional engagement. Instructors who proactively implement strategies to better engage their students enhance ...
Reflective-Heuristic Practice, Crisis Management, the PMNB, and Simulation: An Integrated Methodology
(CreateSpace, 2011)
Effective Project Management (PM) training is a delicate balance between the scholarship of academe and the scholarship of
application. Reflective-heuristic practice, crisis management (CM), and the rigor of a Project ...
Self-Direction in Adult Learning: Best Practices
(CreateSpace, 2011)
An adaptive and flexible methodology that encompasses a blend of effective practices is necessary in self-directed learning.
The characteristics of self-directed learners are identified, and innovative methods to promote ...
The Use of Synchronized Audio, Video, and Slides to Enhance the Online Learning Experience
(CreateSpace, 2011)
Multimedia technologies are becoming more common in online education, and student response to materials presented in ways other than text is overwhelmingly positive. Multimedia presentations using synchronized audio, video, ...
Promoting Authentic Learning by Engaging in “Real-World” Research
(CreateSpace, 2013)
In this chapter, the authors describe the benefits of engaging in action research in a counselor education program. Action research is defined, and the concepts are illustrated with examples from one such project (i.e., ...
CityU’s Approach to Outcomes Assessment
(CreateSpace, 2011)
As the higher education community continues to increase its focus on student learning as the essential hallmark of the quality
and value of a college education, more outcomes assessment models are being developed. City ...
The Lincoln Paradigm: An Educational Vision for the Future
(CreateSpace, 2011)
Drawing on lessons included in Abraham Lincoln’s works can help inform adult education practices. This chapter utilizes excerpts from one of Lincoln’s law lectures to highlight points that are important in the delivery, ...
Presence & Engagement: Best Practices for the Online Text-Based Classroom
(CreateSpace, 2011)
Instructor presence is vital for students to become engaged in their courses. Literature from distance learning journals, student interviews, and an ethnographic study show that how present and involved an instructor is ...
The Presence of the Teacher: Theory into Practice
(CreateSpace, 2016)
The concept of presence of the teacher augments the “social presence” and “teacher presence” components of the community of inquiry (COI) theory and points to the significance of the being-ness of the teacher in pedagogy. ...