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Heinrichs, Karin – Vocations and Learning, 2016
Entrepreneurship education is a growing field of research within vocational education. During the last decade, an increasing number of empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of entrepreneurship education courses (EECs). Yet studies on entrepreneurship education still lack evidence on how to prepare entrepreneurs to handle dynamism and…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Curriculum Design, Course Evaluation, Entrepreneurship
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Sextos, Anastasios G. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
This paper presents the structure of an undergraduate course entitled "programming techniques and the use of specialised software in structural engineering" which is offered to the fifth (final) year students of the Civil Engineering Department of Aristotle University Thessaloniki in Greece. The aim of this course is to demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Civil Engineering
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Nowacki, Amy S. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2011
The study presents and applies the 4MAT theoretical framework to educational planning to transform a biostatistics course into a problem-based learning experience. Using a four-question approach, described are specific activities/materials utilized at both the class and course levels. Two web-based instruments collected data regarding student…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Problem Based Learning, Learning Experience, Teaching Methods
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Hallinger, Philip; Lu, Jiafang; Showanasai, Parinya – Educational Review, 2010
This paper presents findings of a study that evaluated the instructional effectiveness of a problem-based learning module constructed around a computer simulation, "Making Change Happen"[TM]. The "Leading Organizational Change" (LOC) course sought to enable students in a graduate management program in Thailand to learn to lead…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Computer Simulation, Problem Based Learning, Learning Modules
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Hoic-Bozic, N.; Mornar, V.; Boticki, I. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
Blended learning has become an increasingly popular form of e-learning, and is particularly suitable to the process of transitioning towards e-learning from traditional forms of learning and teaching. This paper describes the use of the blended e-learning model, which is based on a mixture of collaborative learning, problem-based learning (PBL)…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Independent Study, Problem Based Learning, Courseware
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Reich, Sven; Simon, James F.; Ruedinger, Dirk; Shortall, Adrian; Wichmann, Manfred; Frankenberger, Roland – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2007
The common teaching goal of two different phantom head courses was to enable the students to provide an all-ceramic restoration by the means of computer technology. The aim of this study was to compare these two courses with regard to the different educational methods using identical computer software. Undergraduate dental students from a single…
Descriptors: Dentistry, Medical Education, Computer Uses in Education, Comparative Analysis
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Maase, Eric L.; High, Karen A. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2008
"Chemical Engineering Modeling" is a first-semester graduate course traditionally taught in a lecture format at Oklahoma State University. The course as taught by the author for the past seven years focuses on numerical and mathematical methods as necessary skills for incoming graduate students. Recent changes to the course have included Visual…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Mathematical Models, Chemical Engineering, Programming
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Wang, Kun Te; Huang, Yueh-Min; Jeng, Yu-Lin; Wang, Tzone-I – Computers & Education, 2008
Problem-based learning is a goal directed and constructive process for learners. When meeting problems, learners usually force themselves to form work groups in order to find a solution. Currently, blogs are becoming more popular and in fact has formed a community wherein people can share their learning experiences with others. Many pedagogical…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Problem Based Learning, Information Retrieval, Teaching Methods
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Salvador, R. J.; And Others – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 1995
A forestry and agronomy course at Iowa State University incorporates problem-based team projects on real-world situations as a means of providing students with integrative and meaningful experiential learning. Student evaluations of these courses indicate that students recognize and appreciate the integrative nature of the problem-based team…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agronomy, Course Evaluation, Environmental Education
McAlpine, Iain; Dudley, Nick – 2001
Problem-based learning (PBL) was used as the instructional design basis for a TAFE (Technical and Further Education) unit of competency developed for online delivery. The courseware was commissioned to provide online content for users of the Victorian TAFE Virtual Campus (Australia). The aim of the project was to provide courseware that would…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Course Evaluation, Courseware, Distance Education
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Ribeiro, Luis Roberto C.; Mizukami, Maria Da Graca N. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2005
This paper presents the student evaluation of a problem-based learning (PBL) implementation in the postgraduate engineering curriculum of a public university in Brazil. This investigation adopts a qualitative and collaborative design, as suggested when the research objective is to study phenomena in their natural settings in terms of the meanings…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Problem Based Learning, Engineering, Foreign Countries
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Schell, Robyn; Kaufman, David – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2009
The web has the potential to offer an environment that can support standardized medical education to students dispersed in time or place and, in the process, respond to reduced availability of patients for practice. This exploratory article describes how we evaluated critical thinking in an online collaborative Problem-based Learning (PBL)…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Problem Based Learning, Patients, Critical Thinking