Case Study Self study book Water Management in Technical Irrigation Systems
Case Study Self study book Water Management in Technical Irrigation Systems The training material was prepared in the Proyek Tata Guna Air (PTGA) or Water Users Training Project (WUTP). Ministry of Public Works, Department Irrigation 2, Jakarta, Indonesia, 1986. by. F.A. Earl Click here to start with the self-study book. Tony Earl used a hard […]
5.5 Case study no. 6: Troubleshooting refrigeration systems
5.5. Case study no . 6 Troubleshooting refrigeration systems The usual long, hot summer. In Townville, Illinois, manager Joseph D Doe of the Buy-It-Here supermarket chain is getting hot under the collar. For the sixth time in three days, he is listening to another complaint from one of his branch managers about ‘poor freezer maintenance […]
4.4 Case study no. 5: Riding out the storm
Case study no. Riding out the storm In this case study we return to the Botany students and their encounter with the use of the scientific method of enquiry into the phenomenon of apical dominance in plants. The results, you will remember, were not all that we hoped for in this think-band-do-for-yourself type of experiment. […]
3.5 Case study no. 3: Pictures in your mind
Case study no. 3: Pictures in your mind From our own experience in learning situations, we know how special and important it can be to imagine something. Why then don’t we (as designers and teachers) give more attention to the use of the student’s imagination in a teaching-learning situation? Imagination can be a very powerful […]
3.6 Case study no. 4: Giving students the chance to think for themselves
3.6 Case study no. 4: Giving students the chance to think for themselves As a designer of courses and lessons you will always be in demand if you have success in creating response environments for learning in which students are given the responsibility and the chance to think for themselves. This was the case a […]
2.7 Case study no. 2: Fighting forest fires safely
2.7 Case study no. 2: Fighting forest fires safely On repeated occasions in 1964 on the shuttle flight between La Guardia airport New York and National airport Washington DC, I was struggling with a course design problem. It seemed relatively simple and yet the solution (the choice of a plan, structure and strategy of instruction […]
1.8 Case study no. 1: The design of an educational encounter
Case study no.1: The design of an educational encouter Here is our first case study. It describes the designing of an educational visit to a doctor and to a patient at home. The substance of the story is from an article (Earl, Everwijn and de Melker, 1980) in Medical Education. It will introduce you step […]