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After four years of using a traditional lecture format, Elizabeth Harrison developed a way to allow students to actively participate in class while retaining more information.
A class taught entirely on the Internet is allowing students and the teacher more flexibility. Fred Wolfe, head of the nutritional sciences department, teaches Nutrition 101 through a highly experimental learning environment using CD-ROM technology and the Internet.
Students in Michael R. Moore's fall English class should be prepared to revisit 1899 and have their tools ready - that is, their 1998 tools - including critical thinking skills and use of a personal computer with access to the Internet. The class will examine 'millennium anxiety' and compare representations of progress and technology of a century ago, on the eve of 1999.
For many faculty, finding effective ways to teach critical thinking in a large class is a real challenge. Joan Haase has discovered one way to tackle the problem successfully - the structured classroom.
A professor in the College of Education believes future teachers will need every advantage as the technological world is rapidly changing the face of teaching and learning.
Alfred Kaszniak has an interesting way to keep his students involved in class discussion. Actually, students in his "Dialogs on Consciousness" class were graded on the quality of their discussion and a class project.
"How can I get my young and highly 'youth-oriented' students excited about theories and issues related to human aging?" This was the challenge facing Donna Iams, associate professor of gerontological studies. The answer for Iams involved using instructional technology to enhance a variety of creative learning activities.
Kenneth Smith is taking the distance out of distance education. This fall, students enrolled in two sections of Smith's introductory course in educational technologies will realize another of the computer's advantages: they will learn to use the Internet by using it to take the course. Smith, an educational psychology professor, will teach one section of the class at the main campus. The other section will be students enrolled at the UA Sierra Vista campus and teachers in Cochise County.
Bob Hendricks created chaos and teaches students how to deal with reality in his Personal/Interpersonal Leadership course.
Teaching students essential mathematics skills needed to solve problems in future business careers are part of the revised course requirements at the College of Business and Public Administration.