In this exploratory study, we examined how undergraduate students experience learning in a learner-centered teaching environment and their perceptions of motivation towards learning material in an introductory public speaking communications course. Six faculty members participated in a semester-long study where their teaching strategies were observed. Three faculty members participated in a cog...

Based on prolonged apprenticeship with the indigenous Gente de Centro from Colombian Amazonia, this article discusses their research methodologies and challenges they pose to ethnographic knowledge. Indigenous suggest that modern disenchanted method, its semi-structured interviews, focus groups, data collection design, is inadequate account for a world in which everything speaks does so unexpec...

Even the best textbooks for Java programming have one substantial deficiency. They use small, isolated programming examples and throw-away lab exercises that do almost nothing to convey the situated application of object-oriented language constructs. An alternative approach is to embed Java programming assignments as encapsulated modules in an extensible application framework built up across se...

The other major change has been that an opportunity is now given to every student during the last three months of his training to be attached to a general practitioner. This was started in 1954 and has been carried out every year since. In 1954, 36 students took part in the scheme; in 1955 there were 30, and in 1956, 28. Students were attached to 6 country practices and 18 town practices and th...