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White, Aien Charity Grace; Chaudhari, Apoorv; White, Jonathon David – Physics Education, 2021
Engaging Electrical Engineering (EE) students in a freshman general physics service course is challenging as they see little relationship between the topics and their major. Non-native speakers enrolled in a course taught in English face an additional challenge beyond understanding the basic physics, that is, understanding specialized English.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Discovery Learning, Engineering Education, Physics
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Huang, Ching-Hsu – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2014
The class quasi-experiment was conducted to determine whether using computer simulation teaching strategy enhanced student understanding of statistics concepts for students enrolled in an introductory course. One hundred and ninety-three sophomores in hospitality management department were invited as participants in this two-year longitudinal…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Computer Simulation, Statistics, College Students
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Jiau, H. C.; Chen, J. C.; Ssu, Kuo-Feng – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
Game-based assignments typically form an integral component of computer programming courses. The effectiveness of the assignments in motivating students to carry out repetitive programming tasks is somewhat limited since their outcomes are invariably limited to a simple win or loss scenario. Accordingly, this paper develops a simulation…
Descriptors: Self Motivation, Programming, Educational Games, Computer Simulation