TLED 290. Education for the 21st Century. 3 Credits. This course is designed for use with dual enrollment classes that are approved by the Darden College of Education and are using the Teachers for Tomorrow curriculum. The course introduces the historical, philosophical, and sociological foundations and contemporary issues of American public education, and includes the use and analysis of asses...

This paper analyzes the experiences and lessons of courses offered by vocational education, points out the problems of the curriculum designing and poses some suggestions and measures of the curriculum designing offered for vocational education.

Abstract Many teachers strive for lively student participation in class. This field study examined aspects of learning environments higher education with regard to their connection students’ oral engagement. Overall, six factors that might increase or decrease were investigated: the number teacher questions, course atmosphere, level demand, preparation (e.g., through homework), class size, and ...

The article includes the analysis of the course whose aim is to present the potentialities of the system of virtual education Moodle[1], which is the basis for constructing e-Student platform owned by State Higher Vocational School in Krosno. The article presents the use of e-learning in the course ‘Computer science in tourism’ conducted at the Department of Tourism and Recreation in State High...

AIM To evaluate prospectively the course of schizophrenia in men and women after a first psychiatric hospitalization in terms of socio-vocational situation, social functioning and psychopathological status. METHODS A study sample consisted of 74 patients (46 males, 28 females), examined 1 month (T. 1), 13 months (T. 2) after a discharge, and 4-6 years after T. 1 (T.3). The research instrument...

This article reports on four United States studies of how rewards systems, extrinsic and intrinsic, could play an important role in providing incentives for university faculty to teach (or remain teaching) electronic and distance education courses. The first three studies conducted prior to 2003 reported faculty were inherently motivated to teach e-learning and distance education. The fourth st...

This paper concentrates on a strategy that uses schoolwide data to identify secondary schools where students’ academic achievement has been improving at a relatively fast rate, and other schools where it has not. Schools with the most involvement in vocational education can be selected from the group where achievement is increasing relatively fast, and from the group where it is not. These two ...

The use of Internet-based applications has a significant influence on the everyday life of professionals. As a consequence, professionals work with informatics systems whose inherent processes are difficult to comprehend. This is caused by the complexity and interconnectedness of these informatics systems. The lack of necessary skills can prevent independent and responsible use of them. This de...