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The Classroom - Theory and Methodology
| Cooperative Education | Cooperative education is a structured method of combining academic education with practical work experience. |
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| Tranformative Learning | The theory of transformative learning that has been developed by Jack Mezirow during the past two decades has evolved "into a comprehensive and complex description of how learners construe, validate, and reformulate the meaning of their experience". |
| Experiental Education | Experiential education is the process of actively engaging students in an experience that will have real consequences. Students make discoveries and experiment with knowledge themselves instead of hearing or reading about the experiences of others. |
| Instructional Theory | There are many terms for online education. Some of them are virtual education, Internet-based education, Web-based education, E-learning and education via computer-mediated communication (CMC). |
| Learning Theory | Distance education is a method of teaching in which the students are not required to be physically present at a specific location during the term. Most often, regular mail is used to send written material, videos, audiotapes, and CD-ROMs to the student and to turn in the exercises; nowadays e-mail and the Web are used as well. |
| The Montessori method is a methodology for nursery and elementary school education, first developed by Dr. Maria Montessori. | |
| Problem Based Leaning | |
| Active Learning |
