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Patrick Rosenkranz; Alecia Cotterell; Amy Fielden; Charlotte Hope; Trevor James; Billie Moffat-Knox – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2024
Enterprise challenges are teaching activities that allow students to develop and pitch a creative idea in response to a real-life challenge, usually posed by a charitable organisation. Students work in teams to develop their ideas and draw on their subject knowledge, as well as entrepreneurial processes, to articulate their product or service that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Studies, Psychology
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Sharma, Daneshwar – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2022
Using social media communication (SMC) for personal and professional use represents two different skill sets. Though students often use SMC on a personal basis for fun and connecting with friends, they often fail to understand how SMC can be used effectively as a professional organizational/corporate communication tool. A service-learning project…
Descriptors: Social Media, Service Learning, Business Communication, Student Projects
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Ella August; Max Ansorge; Olivia S. Anderson – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
The disruption of education during COVID-19 presented challenges regarding experiential learning intended for Master of Public Health students to develop writing skills. We describe the Real-World Writing Project, wherein students wrote a public health document for community partners, implemented in the context of emergency remote learning during…
Descriptors: Public Health, Graduate Students, Writing Skills, Distance Education
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Whitfield, Toni S.; Ball, Timothy C. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2022
Students from a regional state university participated in a semester-long project in community service-learning with local community nonprofit agencies to plan, promote, and implement an event. Student tolerance of ambiguity and locus of control were evaluated before the beginning of the course and after completion of the project. Results from…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Context), Locus of Control, Service Learning, College Students
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Tracey, Monica W.; Baaki, John – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
With the challenges of a global pandemic, political and social unrest, and the consequences these issues bring, there is a universal call for empathy as we attempt to maneuver through this tumultuous time. For instructional designers, this includes employing empathy and empathic design as they grapple with how to design instructional interventions…
Descriptors: Empathy, Instructional Design, Intervention, College Faculty
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Stevenson, Alma D.; Casler-Failing, Shelli L. – Afterschool Matters, 2023
During recent decades, educational reform in the U.S. has favored standards-driven curricula with the purpose of improving education. However, national assessments have not demonstrated significant improvements in educational outcomes, especially among economically disadvantaged and minoritized populations. To mitigate these outcomes,…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Culturally Relevant Education, Student Projects, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Haley E. Smith; Caren B. Cooper; K.C. Busch; Suzanne Harper; Amy Muslim; Kaleigh McKenna; Darlene Cavalier – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Engagement in citizen science can result in participant outcomes including increased science and environmental literacy and civic action. One factor which may increase the likelihood of these outcomes is facilitation by groups such as employers, schools, or other organizations. We examined how a partnership between SciStarter and Girl Scouts of…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Females, Citizen Participation, Science Education
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Higuera-Martinez, Oscar I.; Fernandez-Samaca, Liliana; Alvarado-Fajardo, Andrea C. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This research presents a project-based learning (PBL) approach for fostering creativity in first-year students with differential characteristics in the course execution. The first course considered remote teaching during a pandemic period; the second one used 50% of the weeks with remote teaching and the rest with face-to-face…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Active Learning, Student Projects, Creativity
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Prior, Sarah Jane; Van Dam, Pieter Jan; Griffin, Phoebe E. J.; Reeves, Nicole S.; Kirkwood, Lea; Paton, Bronwyn; Giles, Amelia; Peterson, Gregory M. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
A challenge for providers of work-integrated learning courses is delivering a meaningful learning experience for students, while collaborating with organisations to ensure adequate support. Evaluating student experience has traditionally been about collecting feedback on teaching methods, course content and learning outcomes, rather than the…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Experience, Work Experience Programs, Health Services
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Karrera Xuarros, Inaki; Arguiñano Madrazo, Andoni; Basasoro Ciganda, Maitane; Castillo Armijo, Pablo – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
In this study, we present the experiences of three educational projects with over thirty years of pedagogical innovation in the Basque Country: 'The Amara Berri System', 'Eskola Txikiak' and 'The Antzuola Project'. These include innovations with an inclusive focus as well as practices that affect the curriculum and school organisation for the…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Educational Innovation, Diversity, Barriers
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Kontos, George – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
The following paper describes a distinctive collaborative service-learning project done in an undergraduate class on web design. In this project, students in a web design class contacted local community non-profit organizations to create websites (collections of web pages) to benefit these organizations. The two phases of creating a website,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Cooperative Learning, Service Learning
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Yilmaz, Ramazan; Karaoglan Yilmaz, Fatma Gizem; Keser, Hafize – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2020
The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of vertical and shared e-leadership approaches on self-regulated learning skills, motivation and group collaboration processes (group cohesion, group atmosphere, and group transactive memory system) in online project-based learning. The study was carried out according to a factorial…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Leadership Effectiveness, Participative Decision Making, Vertical Organization
Chan, Maureen Yin Lee; Snell, Robin Stanley – Metropolitan Universities, 2021
Through qualitative research, which involved qualitative interviews and focus group meetings with members of four student teams, we identified a number of barriers to the development of cohesiveness in teams of local and international exchange (IE) students, who were undertaking service-learning (SL) together. Lack of cohesiveness in such teams…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Exchange Programs, Service Learning, Community Organizations
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Ozkan, Desen S.; McNair, Lisa D.; Bairaktarova, Diana – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: This paper analyzes reflective thinking within organizational structures in higher education and draws parallels between the challenges faced by educators developing interdisciplinary courses and their students working in ill-structured projects. Background: Interdisciplinarity as a learning goal is prevalent across engineering…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Interdisciplinary Approach, Reflection, Campuses
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Bloch, Janel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
Student philanthropy projects empower students to become grant givers. Through learning by giving, students get hands-on practice making decisions with real monetary impact. This article explains the steps in a student philanthropy project in a grant-writing course, illustrating how business and professional communication courses can be a natural…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Private Financial Support, Grantsmanship, Grants
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