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Carlos J. Landaverde-Alvarado – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
We redesigned our undergraduate laboratories to create a structured sequence that continuously improves the learning experience of students. We utilized a PBL and PjBL approach in which students are progressively introduced to ill-structured open-ended problems, the development of projects, and the creation of research products. We dynamically…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Problem Based Learning, Undergraduate Students
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David Goldberg; George Poppitz; Sayli Sonsurkar; Joshua Manuel; Jacob Klaus; Eric Zhang; Michael Goldberg; Kelsey Gray; Arri Eisen – Discover Education, 2024
Emory University has had a long relationship with His Holiness the Dalai Lama through the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative. Recently the Tenzin Gyatso Science Scholars, who are Tibetan Buddhist monastics that reside and take courses on Emory's campus, were enrolled in a novel science research course designed and taught by undergraduate students at…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Buddhism, Science Education, Science Laboratories
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Hinojosa, Leighanna; Swisher, Esmarie; Garneau, Nicole – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
The goal of inclusive design to promote participation of marginalised groups in science is ubiquitous across informal science education, and in the growing field of citizen science. Yet the aspiration of equality in the sciences continues to be met with challenges. Despite decades of educational research studying the barriers of participation in…
Descriptors: Equal Education, STEM Education, Ethnography, Science Education
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Acosta, Diana I.; Polinsky, Naomi J.; Haden, Catherine A.; Uttal, David H. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
This study is a collaborative project between university researchers and museum practitioners investigating ways to advance STEM learning opportunities for young children and their families in museums. The focus of the work is on how the knowledge resources that are available to families (e.g., prior knowledge, information provided by the museum…
Descriptors: Museums, Childrens Attitudes, STEM Education, Educational Opportunities
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Holmén, Johan; Adawi, Tom; Holmberg, John – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: While sustainability-oriented education is increasingly placing importance on engaging students in inter- and transdisciplinary learning processes with societal actors and authentic challenges in the centre, little research attends to how and what students learn in such educational initiatives. This paper aims to address this by opening…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Learning Processes, Social Environment
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Abraham, Stephanie; Kedley, Kate; Fall, Madjiguene; Krishnamurthy, Sharada; Tulino, Daniel – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2021
We, as multilingual teacher-scholars, had lingering questions about what community programs were doing, operating outside of school contexts, to maintain the bilingualism of racialized, Latinx children in Philadelphia and to resist the monolingual ideologies circulating in US society. To answer those questions, we partnered with a bilingual,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Writing Instruction, Hispanic American Students, Workshops
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Muniroh, Siti; Febrianti, Yusnita; Kusumaningrum, Shirly Rizki; Rachmajanti, Sri; Sobri, Ahmad Yusuf – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This qualitative study is part of a feasibility study conducted by State University of Malang (SUM), Indonesia, to determine stakeholder needs for a study program specializing in managing bilingual education. The study participants included one SUM lecturer who held a managerial position in the division of SUM laboratory schools and twelve…
Descriptors: Bilingual Schools, School Administration, Foreign Countries, Educational Administration
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Ruth Gotian – College Student Journal, 2016
The benefits of mentoring are well documented (Buddeberg-Fischer, 2006; Kasworm, 2010). Every industry has mentors and protégés who seek mentors who achieved their aspirations. But what training do our mentors have in effective mentorship? Recognizing that it is never too early to learn, yet often overlooked, the Weill…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Summer Programs, Undergraduate Students
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Möller-Recondo, Claudia; D´Amato, Juan-Pablo – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2020
The purpose of the present work is to rethink, in the university context, the concept of genius, related to the high intellectual abilities associated with intelligence; also, to connect the idea of entrepreneurial competences, such as leadership or social commitment. The hypothesis is that a university genius is defined by his high creative…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Entrepreneurship, Gifted, Creativity
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Danylenko, Oleksandr – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
The article is devoted to the problem on training of maritime specialists in universities of Great Britain; in particular, it is a question of training navigators. It was noted that there are dozens of maritime educational institutions and a long tradition of training maritime specialists in the country. The system of maritime education in the…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Marine Education, Navigation, Foreign Countries
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Porta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
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von Arnim, Albrecht G.; Missra, Anamika – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Leading voices in the biological sciences have called for a transformation in graduate education leading to the PhD degree. One area commonly singled out for growth and innovation is cross-training in computational science. In 1998, the University of Tennessee (UT) founded an intercollegiate graduate program called the UT-ORNL Graduate School of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Science Education, Biology, Computation
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Farnham, Kate R.; Dube, Danielle H. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2015
Here we present the development of a 13 week project-oriented biochemistry laboratory designed to introduce students to foundational biochemical techniques and then enable students to perform original research projects once they have mastered these techniques. In particular, we describe a semester-long laboratory that focuses on a biomedically…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Laboratory Experiments, Student Projects, Research Projects
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Paton-Walsh, Clare – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2015
This paper describes a study aimed at assessing the ability of report templates to help students learn key concepts during undergraduate laboratory classes. The report templates were designed so that a set of assessment questions led the students through the logical steps required to perform the laboratory exercise and to calculate the required…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Undergraduate Students, Laboratory Experiments, Scientific Concepts
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Shreiber, David I.; Moghe, Prabhas V.; Roth, Charles M. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2015
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) sites widely serve as the first major research gateway for undergraduates seeking a structured research experience. Given their lack of prior research skills, and the highly compressed duration of the REU programs, these students frequently encounter barriers to a seamless transition into a new…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Acceleration (Education), Interdisciplinary Approach, Engineering Education
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