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Delgado, Antonio; Justo, Enrique; Terranova, Domenico; Cascales, Juan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
What difficulties do architecture students encounter in the structural design for their final master project? How do they address these difficulties? This paper presents the topic and focuses on these two research questions by examining the students' experience, using thematic analysis with a qualitative approach. We obtained the data through…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Student Projects, Architectural Education
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Fernández, Idoia; Márquez, M. Dolors – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
Recent studies show that the character, function and goals of educational development units (EDUs) in many countries are undergoing a shift, and they now tend to support universities and learning in a more comprehensive way. The status of Spanish EDUs, however, has not been studied in detail. The aim of this article is to describe the current…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Educational Development, Universities
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Bañeres, David; Clarisó, Robert; Jorba, Josep; Serra, Montse – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2014
The synthesis of digital circuits is a basic skill in all the bachelor programmes around the ICT area of knowledge, such as Computer Science, Telecommunication Engineering or Electrical Engineering. An important hindrance in the learning process of this skill is that the existing educational tools for the design of circuits do not allow the…
Descriptors: Electronics, Design, Program Validation, Electronic Learning
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Muñoz González, Juan Manuel; Rubio García, Sebastián; Cruz Pichardo, Ivanovna M. – Digital Education Review, 2015
At the present time, the use of video games goes beyond mere amusement or entertainment due to its potential for developing capacities, dexterity and skills. Thus, video games have extended to environments like that of education, serving as didactic resources within dynamics that respond to the interests and necessities of the 21st century…
Descriptors: Video Games, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
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Romero, Carmen; Cazorla, Moisés; Buzón, Olga – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2017
This work presents a proposal for the teaching-learning of the concept map technique applied to the Natural Sciences course in the second year of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO, according to its initials in Spanish). Two sessions have been designed, one of which is an instructor-led session to learn the technique and another is a session in…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Learning Strategies, Secondary School Students, Science Instruction
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Hervás Torres, Mirian; Fernández Martín, Francisco D.; Arco Tirado, José Luis; Miñaca Laprida, María Isabel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2017
Introduction: The low productivity that prevailing in recent years in Higher Education requires urgently institutional responses aimed to improving quality of university education contributing to the development among students of key competences for lifelong learning. In this sense, the aim of this research was to explore the effects of an…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests
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Ruiz de Zarobe, Yolanda; Zenotz, Victoria – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article reports on an intervention study of reading comprehension among young learners of English as a third language (L3) in a multilingual (Spanish-Basque-English) context in the Basque Country. The study involves a pre-test post-test design, with an intervention of 7 weeks using two intact groups of participants that served as experimental…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Diez, David; Malizia, Alessio; Aedo, Ignacio; Diaz, Paloma; Fernandez, Camino; Dodero, Juan-Manuel – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
The basic idea of service-oriented learning is that a learning environment should be conceived as a set of independent units of learning packaged as learning services. The design, development and deployment of a learning system based on integrating different learning services needs both a technological platform to support the system as well as a…
Descriptors: Architecture, Distance Education, Systems Development, Educational Environment
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Alorda, B.; Suenaga, K.; Pons, P. – Computers & Education, 2011
This paper reports on the design, implementation and assessment of a new approach course structure based on the combination of three cooperative methodologies. The main goal is to reduce the percentage of non-passed students focusing the learning process on students by offering different alternatives and motivational activities based on working in…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Robotics
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Rueda, U.; Arruarte, A.; Elorriaga, J. A.; Herran, E. – Computers & Education, 2009
This paper presents a study carried out at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU with the aim of evaluating the CM-ED (concept map editor) with social education students. Concept mapping is a widely accepted technique that promotes meaningful learning. Graphically representing concepts of the learning domain and relationships between them…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries, Education Courses
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Ibanez, Maria Blanca; Garcia, Jose Jesus; Galan, Sergio; Maroto, David; Morillo, Diego; Kloos, Carlos Delgado – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
The best way to learn is by having a good teacher and the best language learning takes place when the learner is immersed in an environment where the language is natively spoken. 3D multi-user virtual worlds have been claimed to be useful for learning, and the field of exploiting them for education is becoming more and more active thanks to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Learning Strategies, Learning Experience
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Sicilia, Miguel-Angel – Computer Science Education, 2006
A considerable amount of experiences in teaching object-oriented concepts using the Java language have been reported to date, some of which describe language pitfalls and concrete learning difficulties. In this paper, a number of additional issues that have been experienced as difficult for students to master, along with approaches intended to…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Learning Strategies, Programming, Programming Languages
Del Mar Marin Sanchez, Ma; Ronco, Alicia Mateos – Online Submission, 2010
The Spanish educational system will require certain changes in order to achieve the Bologna objectives for the European Higher Education Area, including a more professional profile, with new activities and roles for both students and teachers, who must assume new skills that will affect concepts and attitudes related to the teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Learning Processes
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Goode, Jackie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
There is in higher education a powerful discourse of "independent learning". While there may be pedagogical rationales to support the desirability of increased independence at the tertiary stage, it may also serve other institutional agendas, such as functioning as a way for academic staff to "manage" the frustrations…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Doctoral Programs, Learning Strategies, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
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Mateos, Mar; Villalon, Ruth; de Dios, Maria Jose; Martin, Elena – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
The aim of the study was to examine reading and writing tasks as learning tools in higher education in Spain. The participants were 171 undergraduates from three different university degree courses. The data were gathered through a questionnaire that explored the kind of tasks carried out by the students, their perception of different aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Task Analysis, Reading Processes, Writing Processes