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Building a Community of Scholars: One University's Comparison of "Typical" vs. Open Ended Ethics Case Studies in First-Year Engineering
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Reid, Kenneth J. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2012
Ethics is among the professional skills embedded in the first year engineering curriculum in many institutions. The general format of the study of ethics is similar to many other institutions: student teams review case studies and develop written and oral presentations on the ethical issues encountered. This report investigates whether the use of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Ethics, Case Studies
Time Students Spend Reading Threaded Discussions in Online Graduate Courses Requiring Asynchronous Participation
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Brown, Abbie H.; Green, Tim – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
The authors report the results of a study that provides bases for comparison between the time necessary to participate in courses delivered asynchronously online and courses delivered in a traditional classroom setting. Weekly discussion threads from 21 sections of six courses offered as part of online, degree-granting, accredited, graduate…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Intermode Differences, Asynchronous Communication
Evaluation of the Apple Classroom of Tomorrow.
Kitabchi, Gloria – 1987
The Memphis Apple Classroom of Tomorrow (ACOT), one of seven ACOT locations, was a joint project of the city schools and Apple Computer. The ACOT consisted of a class of 30 fifth grade students in an inner city school, who were selected on the basis of the willingness of the students and their parents to participate and to use computers in the…
Descriptors: Attendance, Black Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 5