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2. Teachinghistory.org - Wikipedia

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   Educational. Focus. Best practices, K-12 education, History of the United States. Location. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Website. www .teachinghistory .org. Teachinghistory.org, also known as the National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC), is a website that provides educational resources for the study of U.S. history.

3. History and heritage in distance education

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   Keywords: distance education; history of distance education Introduction We wrote this article because we were asked to tie together ideas that we felt were important theoretical, scholarly, or research-based signposts in our own practice. That is our goal here. Don’t look for significant critique in this article—that has gone before.

4. Online learning in higher education - Wikipedia

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   Online learning involves courses offered by primary institutions that are 100% virtual. Online learning, or virtual classes offered over the internet, is contrasted with traditional courses taken in a brick-and-mortar school building. It is a development in distance education that expanded in the 1990s with the spread of the commercial Internet ...

5. History of virtual learning environments - Wikipedia

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   A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a system specifically designed to facilitate the management of educational courses by teachers for their students. It predominantly relies on computer hardware and software, enabling distance learning. In North America, this concept is commonly denoted as a "Learning Management System" (LMS).

6. HISTORY EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL

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   History teaching as a designed meaning-making process: Teacher facilitation of student–subject relationships Heidi Eskelund Knudsen* – University College Lillebaelt, Denmark Abstract This article is an empirical analysis of history teaching as a communicative process. Dialogic history teaching develops as a designed meaning-making process that

7. HISTORY EDUCATION RESEARCH JOURNAL

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   This paper reports an attempt at teaching secondary school students (aged 13 to 14 years) how to detect bias in primary written history sources while learning about a controversial topic in Maltese history – church– state relations in Malta in the 1960s. The method employed is qualitative research – specifically pedagogical research ...

8. Teaching U.S. History Online: Problems and Prospects

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   To illustrate how historians can utilize online technology to teach in an effective way, the author discusses the design of the sixteen-week "United States History To 1865 and United States History Since 1865" online survey courses that he teaches at Joliet Junior College in Illinois.

9. ERIC - ED592395 - Teaching What "Really" Happened: How to ...

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   Book features include: (1) An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education; (2) Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds; (3) Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct ...