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Gratchev, Ivan; Jeng, Dong-Sheng – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
This study seeks to explore whether a combination of traditional teaching methods with project-based learning (PBL) activities can improve the student learning experience in an engineering course of soil mechanics. As an alternative to the traditional type of assignment that consisted of several textbook problems, a project-based assignment was…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Engineering Education, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Biswas, Wahidul K. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show how industrial ecology can facilitate the achievement of sustainable development through its incorporation into an engineering curriculum. Design/methodology/approach: A model has been developed for assessing sustainability learning outcomes due to the incorporation of the concept of industrial ecology…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Maturity (Individuals), Environmental Education, Ecology
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Wells, J.; Barry, R. M.; Spence, A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2012
Traditional teaching styles practiced at universities do not generally suit all students' learning styles. For a variety of reasons, students do not always engage in learning in the courses in which they are enrolled. New methods to create and deliver educational material are available, but these do not always improve learning outcomes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Technology, Multimedia Instruction, Student Surveys
Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Ventura, Sebastian, Ed. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
The Second International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM2009) was held at the University of Cordoba, Spain, on July 1-3, 2009. EDM brings together researchers from computer science, education, psychology, psychometrics, and statistics to analyze large data sets to answer educational research questions. The increase in instrumented…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries