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A Project-Based Learning Approach to Promote Innovation and Academic Entrepreneurship in a Master's Degree in Food Engineering
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Oliveira, Leandro; Cardoso, Eduardo L. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2021
Entrepreneurship brings several benefits, such as fostering innovation and productivity, competitiveness, and socioeconomic development. The search for professionals with different skills to overcome the current and foreseen challenges is relevant in the agri-food sector. Problem-based learning (PBL) is described as an instructional approach,…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Teaching Methods, Food Standards, Agricultural Production
The Foodborne Outbreak Challenge--Using Experiential Learning to Foster Interdisciplinary Training among Students on Foodborne Disease Outbreak Investigations
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White, Alice E.; Sabourin, Katherine R.; Scallan, Elaine – Journal of Food Science Education, 2018
The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence aim to develop novel learning methods to educate and train the future public health workforce to investigate foodborne outbreaks. The Foodborne Outbreak Challenge (FOC) was a one-day event hosted by the Colorado Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence at the Colorado School of Public Health. The…
Descriptors: Foods Instruction, Safety, Public Health, Training
Learning Metabolism by Problem-Based Learning through the Analysis of Health or Nutrition Articles from the Web in Biochemistry
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Bruna, Carola E.; Valenzuela, Nicole A.; Bruna, Daniela V.; Lozano-Rodríguez, Armando; Márquez, Carolina G. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2019
Problem-based learning using authentic material from the web was used to teach metabolism in a biochemistry course. In place of traditional lectures, students' analyzed health or nutrition articles from newspapers and magazines, which were debatable from a scientific point of view, following the principles of problem-based learning. A mixed method…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Problem Based Learning, Biochemistry, Independent Study