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Using Contests to Provide Business Students Project-Based Learning in Humanitarian Logistics: PSAid Example
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Özpolat, Koray; Chen, Yuwen; Hales, Doug; Yu, Degan; Yalcin, Mehmet G. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2014
Business students appreciate working on classroom projects that are both enjoyable and useful in preparing them for future careers. Promoting competition among project teams is also used as a method to motivate students. The Humanitarian Logistics Project (HLP) teaches undergraduate students the logistical implications of unsolicited material…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Competition, Active Learning, Student Projects
"Doing Good" and Scholarship: A Service-Learning Study.
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Cohen, Jeremy; Kinsey, Dennis F. – Journalism Educator, 1994
Discusses service learning (learning that combines public service with related academic work) and service learning projects in an undergraduate course on mass communication and society. Finds that it is an effective means of teaching that increases student understanding of complex material. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Research, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Community Service Learning in Student Teaching: Toward the Development of an Active Citizenry.
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Wade, Rahima C.; Yarbrough, Donald B. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1997
A study investigated the effects of service-learning projects conducted by 255 student teachers and designed in cooperation with their cooperating teachers. Drawing on survey and case-study data, it was found that classroom-based service-learning projects, if structured carefully, can contribute to student-teacher empowerment and enhanced…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Program Design, Public Service
Scrap Drives, Stamp Sales, and School Spirit: Examples of Elementary Social Studies during World War II.
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Field, Sherry L. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1994
Maintains that during World War II the nature of elementary social studies changed significantly. Concludes that, as a result of enhanced and broadened activity during the war years, elementary social studies emerged as an important curricular field. (CFR)
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Services, Educational Change, Elementary Education