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Taslidere, E.; Cohen, F. S.; Reisman, F. K. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
This paper presents the use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in educational research as a platform for enhanced pedagogical learning. The aim here with the use of a WSN platform was to go beyond the implementation stage to the real-life application stage, i.e., linking the implementation to real-life applications, where abstract theory and…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Experiential Learning, Experiments, Engineering Education
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Diemers, Agnes D.; Dolmans, Diana H. J. M.; Verwijnen, Maarten G. M.; Heineman, Erik; Scherpbier, Albert J. J. A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2008
Several reasons have been given why students should have contacts with real patients early in the undergraduate medical curriculum, i.e., in the preclinical phase. However, it is not clear exactly what effects early patient contacts have with regard to knowledge construction and the development of clinical reasoning skills. We sought students'…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Focus Groups, Educational Benefits, Experiential Learning
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Sharma, Ajay – Science Education, 2008
Students studying in government-run schools in rural India possess much experiential knowledge of the world around them. This paper presents a narrative account of an ethnographic exploration of such students as they attempted to learn about electricity in an eighth-grade classroom in a government-run school in a village in India. The paper shows…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Energy