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Engaging Farmers and the Agriculture Industry through the Testing Agricultural Performance Solutions Program
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Burr, Charles A.; Rudnick, Daran R.; Stockton, Matt C.; Tigner, Robert; Rhoades, Krystle – Journal of Extension, 2020
The University of Nebraska--Lincoln Testing Agricultural Performance Solutions (TAPS) program involves use of farm management competitions to increase engagement across producers, industry, and universities. Participants make several management decisions throughout the growing season in a controlled field trial held at the university research…
Descriptors: Farm Management, Competition, Rural Extension, Transformative Learning
Graduate Employability, Skills Development and the UK's Universities Business Challenge Competition: "A Self-Determined Learning Perspective"
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Fearon, Colm; van Vuuren, Wim; McLaughlin, Heather; Nachmias, Stefanos – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Drawing on elements of self-determined learning or heutagogy, the graduate employability impact of the UK's leading Universities Business Challenge (UBC) competition is investigated over a five year period of from 2012-17. A central research question was addressed, namely: "what do inter-university business simulations, such as the UBC,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Employment Potential, Skill Development
"A Strategy of Distinction" Unfolds: Unsettling the Undergraduate Outbound Mobility Experience
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Sidhu, Ravinder; Dall'Alba, Gloria – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Although short-term mobility programmes are increasingly promoted to university students as sources of competitive advantage, there is little research on academic learnings arising from these initiatives. A "field analysis" of outbound mobility is undertaken to identify convergences and disjunctures between institutional discourses,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Study Abroad, Student Mobility, Transformative Learning
Prosaic Sites of Multiculturalism as Educational Encounters in Neo-Liberal Higher Education: Sociological Imagination and Reflexive Teaching and Learning in the Multicultural Classroom
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Peyrefitte, Magali – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2018
The article reflects on the pedagogy of a first-year sociology and criminology module that was developed around the idea of 'Researching the City' in order to introduce students to the methodological and analytical processes of doing research in social science. Part of the assessment strategy centres around a weekly online diary which enables…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Teaching Methods, Sociology, Law Enforcement
The Effectiveness of Game-Based Learning as an Instructional Strategy to Engage Students in Higher Education in Singapore
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Tham, Raymond; Tham, Lesley – International Journal on E-Learning, 2014
The Internet Generation today is accustomed to multi-tasking, graphics, fun, and fantasy. Educators are finding it challenging to engage and motivate students with the traditional mode of teaching. They are increasingly seeking to tap the potential of game-based learning to engage and motivate learners. Game-based learning is also catching on in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Higher Education, College Students
The Transformative Potential of Engaging in Science Inquiry-Based Challenges: The ATSE Wonder of Science Challenge
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Tomas, Louisa; Jackson, Cliff; Carlisle, Karen – Teaching Science, 2014
In 2012, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) piloted the "Wonder of Science Challenge" with a view to enhance school students' interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Students in 15 schools across northern Queensland were provided with an inquiry-based research problem and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Science Interests