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Oremland, Lucy S.; Szabo, Csilla – PRIMUS, 2022
In this paper, we present an overview of a series of 1-credit applied problem solving courses. The goal of these courses was to help students develop their oral and written communication skills, ability to work as a team, and general problem solving skills through preparation and participation in the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Problem Solving, Active Learning, Student Projects
Chun Chu; Jessica L. Dewey; Weiwei Zheng – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
To enhance students' learning and help them understand the whole picture of the field of inorganic chemistry, an inorganic laboratory technique course was designed that uses scaffolded, inquiry-based lab experiments and project-based learning. The scaffolded, inquiry-based laboratories taught in the first 8 weeks of the course helped students…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Scientific Research, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Student Projects
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Blings, Steffen; Maxey, Sarah – Journal of Political Science Education, 2017
In their transition to college, students often struggle to identify and make connections between the main arguments, evidence, and empirical findings of articles from academic journals commonly assigned on political science syllabi. Which active learning techniques are most effective for teaching students to recognize and evaluate social science…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Evidence, Periodicals, Active Learning
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Kane, Robert G. – History Teacher, 2010
Once adapted to the context of the classroom, the tenets of successful counterinsurgency offer teachers a potent intellectual framework for conceptualizing teachers' efforts to build effective active learning communities together with their students. In this article, the author describes a counterinsurgency analogy that shares essential features…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, History Instruction
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Meyerowitz, Ruth; Zinni, Christine F. – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2009
In the Spring of 2000, Ruth Meyerowitz and Christine Zinni began collaborative efforts--inside and outside of academia--to enhance a course on The History of Working Women at SUNY Buffalo. Videotaping the oral histories of women labor leaders, they later teamed up with Michael Frisch and Randforce Associates--a research group at SUNY at Buffalo's…
Descriptors: Oral History, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Employed Women