June 2012

Teaching and learning in the virtual campus: The case of the University of Barcelona

  This article is based on a research project aimed at analysing the teaching and learning models explicit and implicit in the different uses of e-learning platforms. From qualitative analysis of the interview with the coordinator of the Virtual Campus of the University of Barcelona (VC-UB) and the focus group with the 8 lecturers, emerged both the explicit and implicit teaching models of the e-learning...

Author(s): Juana M. Sancho Gil and Joan-Anton Sánchez

June 2012

Current situation and analysis of geography teachers’ active learning knowledge and usage in Turkey

  In parallel to the developments in the approach to education, the secondary education geography curriculum in Turkey was renewed in 2005. This new programme encourages the use of active learning methods and techniques in the classroom by adopting the idea that students should construct and interpret knowledge by actively participating in the process of learning. This study aimed to assess geography...

Author(s): Fikret TUNA