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Rivera, Julio; Groleau, Tom – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
In this paper, the dissolution of the silos between geography and business faculty to form a teaching partnership with a common set of questions and goals and how that partnership changed their academic perspectives will be explored. Faculty deepened the challenges for students, re-thought pedagogical models, and re-thought grading and evaluation.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Business Administration Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Jerzembek, Gabi; Murphy, Simon – Educational Review, 2013
This paper reviews empirical studies that have evaluated the impact of problem-based learning (PBL) on school-aged pupils, in order to summarise how it has been implemented and to assess its effects on academic and personal development. Following electronic searches of PsychINFO, the British Education Index and the Cochrane review database, six…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Program Implementation
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Slavich, George M.; Zimbardo, Philip G. – Educational Psychology Review, 2012
Approaches to classroom instruction have evolved considerably over the past 50 years. This progress has been spurred by the development of several learning principles and methods of instruction, including active learning, student-centered learning, collaborative learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning. In the present paper, we…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning
Benson, Steve – Online Submission, 2012
In Australia, academic workloads are increasing, and university funding is decreasing. Academics and university managers are engaging in risk adverse behavior and tending to focus on customer satisfaction and student retention, potentially at the expense of academic standards. Conventional approaches to pedagogy minimize adverse student feedback,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Workload, Educational Finance, Retrenchment
Trocco, Frank – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
An assistant professor approaches students' unconventional research topics (like crystal healing) as ordinary research endeavors, asking students if they want their work to be credible, what academic discipline they plan to use, what research question should be asked, and what resources are necessary to understand the topic. (MLH)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Innovation, Problem Based Learning, Research Skills