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Local News, Presidential Campaigns, and Citizenship Education: A Reform Proposal
Robert N. Roberts; Anthony J. Eksterowicz
PS: Political Science and Politics Vol. 29, No. 1 (1996) pp. 66–72
Recommends that undergraduate journalism and communications majors receive more thorough training in local and public affairs education. Changes in communications technology have raised the importance and accessibility of local news for national...
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CanCore: Metadata for Learning Objects
Norm Friesen; Anthony Roberts; Sue Fisher; Sue Fisher
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 28, No. 3 (Oct 15, 2002)
The vision of reusable digital learning resources or objects, made accessible through coordinated repository architectures and metadata technologies, has gained considerable attention within distance education and training communities. However, the...
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A Mathematics Support Programme for First-Year Engineering Students
Poh Wah Hillock; Michael Jennings; Anthony Roberts; Victor Scharaschkin
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology Vol. 44, No. 7 (2013) pp. 1030–1044
This article describes a mathematics support programme at the University of Queensland, targeted at first-year engineering students identified as having a high risk of failing a first-year mathematics course in calculus and linear algebra. It...
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Growing Old in a New Age: National and International Evaluation of a Gerontology Telecourse
Joan Pabst Dubanoski; Rebecca J. Goodman; Kathryn L. Braun; Ellen Roberts; Anthony M. Lenzer
Educational Gerontology Vol. 25, No. 8 (1999) pp. 723–40
"Growing Old in a New Age," a Public Broadcasting Service telecourse, was evaluated by 40 faculty, 29 state aging administrators, 2 international public broadcasting users, and a training specialist. The course was generally considered effective,...
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Evaluating a Telecourse on Aging
Kathryn L. Braun; Ellen Roberts; Joan P. Dubanoski; Anthony M. Lenzer; Rebecca J. Goodman
Educational Gerontology Vol. 24, No. 2 (1998) pp. 141–57
Comparison of students taking a televised (n=19) or classroom-based (n=52) course on aging found that telecourse students completed more readings; the classroom group had significant increases in knowledge and better access to instructors. After...
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Human Anatomy: Let the Students Tell Us How to Teach
Christopher R. Davis; Anthony S. Bates; Harold Ellis; Alice M. Roberts
Anatomical Sciences Education Vol. 7, No. 4 (2014) pp. 262–272
Anatomy teaching methods have evolved as the medical undergraduate curriculum has modernized. Traditional teaching methods of dissection, prosection, tutorials and lectures are now supplemented by anatomical models and e-learning. Despite these...