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Zhang, Wei; Zeng, Xinyao; Wang, Jihan; Ming, Daoyang; Li, Panpan – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Programming skills (PS) are indispensable abilities in the information age, but the current research on PS cultivation mainly focuses on the teaching methods and lacks the analysis of program features to explore the differences in learners' PS and guide programming learning. Therefore, the purpose of this study aims to explore horizontal…
Descriptors: Programming, Skill Development, Information Retrieval, Data Processing
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Houghton, David M.; Schertzer, Clint; Beck, Scott – Marketing Education Review, 2018
Marketing analytics students who can communicate effectively with decision makers are in high demand. These "analytic unicorns" are hard to find. The Master of Science in Customer Analytics (MSCA) degree program at Xavier University seeks to fill that need. In this paper, we discuss the process of creating the MSCA program. We outline…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
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Williams, Richard D.; Tooth, Stephen; Gibson, Morgan – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017
In an era of rapid geographical data acquisition, interpretations of remote sensing products are an integral part of many undergraduate geography degree schemes but there are fewer opportunities for collection and processing of primary remote sensing data. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide a relatively inexpensive opportunity to introduce…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physical Geography, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Downs, Nathan; Parisi, Alfio V.; Galligan, Linda; Turner, Joanna; Amar, Abdurazaq; King, Rachel; Ultra, Filipina; Butler, Harry – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
A short series of practical classroom mathematics activities employing the use of a large and publicly accessible scientific data set are presented for use by students in years 9 and 10. The activities introduce and build understanding of integral calculus and trigonometric functions through the presentation of practical problem solving that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Calculus, Trigonometry, Problem Solving
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Emesini, Nnenna Orieoma – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study examined the pattern of acquisition of ICT-based skills by student-teachers and its implications for teacher education in Nigeria in this era of digitalization. The study was a survey research type with two research questions guiding it. The population for the study was 1,570, made up of 3rd and 4th year Faculty of Education students of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Questionnaires, Student Surveys
Mellody, Maureen – National Academies Press, 2014
As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log records, and wireless sensor networks has grown, science, engineering, and business have rapidly transitioned from striving to develop information from scant data to a situation in which the challenge is now…
Descriptors: Workshops, Training, Competence, Data Collection
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Tsai, Chia-Wen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
This research investigated, via quasi-experiments, the effects of web-based co-regulated learning (CRL) on developing students' computing skills. Two classes of 68 undergraduates in a one-semester course titled "Applied Information Technology: Data Processing" were chosen for this research. The first class (CRL group, n = 38) received…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning, Blended Learning