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Albuquerque, Maria Luiza F. Q.; Lopes, Charlie Silva; da Silveira, Denis Silva – Journal of Education for Business, 2023
Abstraction in business processes (BP) modeling arises from the recognition of similarities to the detriment of its differences. However, teaching modeling to beginning students in the context of process management is a hard task to perform, given the high level of abstraction required for these students to develop. This paper uses BP fragments to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Models, Pattern Recognition, Teaching Methods
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Shintaro Fushida-Hardy; Pranav Nuti; Megan Selbach-Allen – PRIMUS, 2024
This paper discusses several linear algebra activities designed to help enhance students' skills in collaborating, exploring mathematics, and linking together abstract and visual ways of approaching mathematics. Most of these activities are short, accessible, engaging, and easy to incorporate into any classroom. In addition, we discuss some…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Class Activities, Algebra, Teaching Methods
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Guzy, Annmarie – Honors in Practice, 2022
Topics and resources from honors education are used to teach argumentation in writing composition. The author discusses efficacies for increasing student awareness of, and reflection on, issues in honors education while engaging first-year students in honors issues that directly affect their lives.
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition)
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Kelly Concannon; Kevin Dvorak – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
Drawing from our experiences facilitating an FYE faculty development program, we highlight how we have practiced elements of trauma-informed pedagogy to work with first-year students and faculty. We discuss how both students and faculty can benefit from a more complex process of cultivating relationships through mindfulness. Practices of…
Descriptors: Trauma Informed Approach, Teaching Methods, First Year Seminars, College Faculty
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Virginia Jiang; Matthew Lucia; Scott Banta; Christopher V. H.-H. Chen – Chemical Engineering Education, 2023
We developed a remote lab experience where freshmen grew and analyzed the activity of sourdough starters as a means of engaging with chemical engineering concepts. This six-week hands-on activity was targeted due to its low-cost, non-hazardous materials, and ability to be conducted safely in a non-laboratory setting. By designing the lab to be…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Distance Education, Laboratory Experiments
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John N. Dyer – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2023
Businesses and other organizations across the globe are becoming more and more data-driven, using a combination of descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics to gain a strategic advantage through understanding the past, what we hope to happen in the future, and the ability to accurately predict future outcomes. These forms of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Business, Business Administration Education, Information Literacy
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Mark N. Lenker III – Communications in Information Literacy, 2023
Librarians and teachers encourage students to include expert perspectives in their research, but recent public discourse includes high-profile examples of experts being inconsistent or wrong, and recent studies suggest that public trust in experts is declining. Waning trust makes it difficult to teach information literacy: I can push students to…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Freshman Composition, College English, College Freshmen
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Morin, Leah – Communications in Information Literacy, 2021
An academic librarian providing one-shot instruction sessions to first-year students is uniquely positioned to enact a feminist ethic of care in the classroom. First-year university students are particularly in need of caring. The library instruction session is often their introduction to and first impression of the library and an opportunity to…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Library Instruction, Caring, Academic Libraries
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Cook, Emily – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
LEGO® stop-motion animations were developed to engage first-year university students in the topics of matrices, vectors, linear geometry and linear transformations. LEGO® provided a versatile medium through which a wide range of concrete and abstract concepts could be physically demonstrated in both two and three dimensions. It was also familiar…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, College Freshmen, Algebra
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Murray, Jeffrey W.; Jackson, Christopher N.; Marx, Andrew – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
The authors report on a pilot project designed to integrate habits of mind into a skills-based first-year seminar. This project featured the development of a curriculum map outlining the primary learning objectives for seven habits of mind--curiosity, perseverance, introspection, courage, humility, empathy, and civility--and this study shares that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development, First Year Seminars, Curriculum Implementation
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Kristen Starkowski – Composition Forum, 2024
Student writers labeled "underprepared" by colleges often have trouble imagining themselves as scholars. Challenges these students routinely encounter include difficulty forming original insights and translating ideas to the page. Although the usage of the term "underprepared" varies across institutional contexts, the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Developmental Studies Programs
Minor, Jesse; McCourt, Matt – Geography Teacher, 2021
Field trips, field courses, and other forms of field-based pedagogy have a long and storied history in geography and are frequently described as essential components of geographic education at the college, secondary, and primary levels. A recent and expanding literature on best practices for field-based geographical education provides instructors…
Descriptors: Role, Assignments, Learner Engagement, Geography Instruction
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Joseph, Toby – Physics Education, 2021
Problems involving rotating systems analysed from an inertial frame, without invoking fictitious forces, is something that freshman students find difficult to understand in an introductory mechanics course. In this article we try to see what could be the factors that lead to this difficulty and propose a set of arguments that could be used to…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Physics), Motion, Scientific Concepts, Introductory Courses
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Kenah, Andy; Nash, Catherine – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2022
Engaging and motivating learners to successfully complete their studies are crucial elements for the success of distance educators around the world. The researchers' AIM newsletter, which is formatted in accordance with motivational learning theory, has been delivered to first-year learners in economics at Open Polytechnic of New Zealand from 2010…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement, Student Motivation, Electronic Learning
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Van Mol, Christof – Teaching Sociology, 2021
This note discusses a class activity that was developed for first-year bachelor students in sociology to understand homogamy theory. Taught in a "classical" deductive way, this theory proved to be difficult to remember and describe on the examination. Starting from inductive learning, and more specifically, (structured) inquiry-guided…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Sociology, Marriage, Social Theories
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