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Adult Basic Education teachers indicate they need unique tools to help their students gain critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This ethnographic study provides a view into the process of designing such instruction by a team of graduate students whose expertise is in the area of learning and teaching rather than instructional design.
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Kaminski, K. (2015). Designing Instruction Through Cognitive Theory, Problem Solving, and Learning Transfer: An Ethnographic Case Study. In: Hokanson, B., Clinton, G., Tracey, M. (eds) The Design of Learning Experience. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16504-2_3
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