Linking teaching and research in disciplines and departments

This paper supports the effective links between teaching and discipline-based research in disciplinary communities and in academic departments. It is authored by Alan Jenkins, Mick Healey and Roger Zetter.

Learning, Teaching and Lesson Planning

This resource was designed for use with MSc Web Scientists as an introduction to a coursework that requires them to produce some teaching materials.

Investigating the use of Virtual Learning Environments by teachers in schools and colleges

Investigating the use of Virtual Learning Environments by teachers in schools and colleges

The instrumentality of the portfolios in the teach-learning process: study with higher education Portuguese teachers

In a time when higher education come for deep changes and if intends an education more centered in the pupil, the teach-learning portfolios appears as a tool to use, because versatile and with innumerable potentialities. This article reveals the results gotten with higher education teachers, who we looked for to know if these appeal in use the teach-learning portfolios, in the curricular units that teach. We looked for, equally, to perceive of that forms these are used. This is an exploratory study, basically descriptive, that does not have pretensions to generalize for all the teaching population. We elaborated and we applied a questionnaire, with 290 teachers of higher education public, university and polytechnic. We verify that the percentage of the teachers that uses the portfolios in the teach- learning process is not very raised.

Academic libraries and learning support in the eectronic enviroment. 'Bibliotecas universitarias y apoyo al aprendizaje en el entorno electrónico'.

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Uncovering CLIL : Content and Language Integrated Learning in Bilingual and Multilingual Education.

Una guía para los profesores de idiomas con diferentes metodologías y técnicas utilizadas en la enseñanza del Aprendizaje Integrado de Conocimientos Curriculares y Lengua Extranjera (AICLE). Ofrece ideas y sugerencias prácticas sobre lo que funciona en el aula, explicaciones y ejemplos de cómo utilizar AICLE en la enseñanza primaria, secundaria y profesional para contribuir a conseguir el plurilingüismo.

What really works in special and inclusive education : using evidence-based teaching strategies.

En este manual se presentan una serie de estrategias que los educadores pueden implementar en el aula con alumnos con necesidades educativas especiales, con el objetivo de ayudarles a tener un aprendizaje de calidad y buenos resultados sociales. Cada una de las veinticuatro estrategias incluidas en el manual tiene una base sustancial de investigación, una justificación teórica, directrices prácticas sobre cómo puede emplearse, así como consejos sobre su uso. Si bien el libro se centra en alumnos con necesidades educativas especiales, la mayor parte de las estrategias son aplicables a todos los alumnos.

Learning generators : NLP and learning styles in english text books. 'Generadores de aprendizaje : PNL y estilos de aprendizaje en libros de texto de ingl??s'

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Learning objects management and evaluation in an e-learning environment. 'Objetos de gesti??n de aprendizaje y evaluaci??n en un entorno de e-learning'

Monogr??fico con el t??tulo: 'Estado actual de los sistemas e-learning'. Resumen basado en el de la publicaci??n

The liberal state and education in Portugal : social integration, freedom of teaching and secularization (1840-1880)

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The effects of question-generation training on metacognitive knowledge, self regulation and learning approaches in Science

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Contradictions regarding teaching and writing (or writing to learn) in the disciplines : what we have learned in the USA

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Testing Delivery Systems in Transnational virtual learning: the vocational management training for the european tourism industry (VocMat) case study

This article discusses the lessons learned from developing and delivering the Vocational Management Training for the European Tourism Industry (VocMat) online training programme, which was aimed at providing flexible, online distance learning for the European tourism industry. The programme was designed to address managers ‘need for flexible, senior management level training which they could access at a time and place which fitted in with their working and non-work commitments. The authors present two main approaches to using the Virtual Learning Environment, the feedback from the participants, and the implications of online Technology in extending tourism training opportunities

Appeal to the Universities for the development of Teaching and Research in the areas of Urban Planning in the CPLP countries

Work document prepared at the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias in its role as Consulting Observer attributed by the Council of Ministers of the CPLP gathered in Bissau for the 11th General Meeting on 16. and 17. July, 2006.