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Giacalone, Davide – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2016
The purpose of this article is to discuss the implementation of case-based teaching and use of response technologies to graduate students in a food science course. The article focuses on teaching sensory science and sensometrics, presents several concrete examples used during the course, and discusses in each case some of the observed outcomes.…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Academic Achievement, Audience Response Systems, Food
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Dietz, Tracy L. – Teaching Sociology, 2002
Presents a study that investigated the effects of student factors related to course preparation, specifically participation in Learning in Communities (LINC) and technology, on the success of the students in an introductory sociology course. Reveals that attendance and reading required texts were significant predictors of success, while LINC…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Higgs, Bettie, Ed.; McCarthy, Marian, Ed. – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2008
This book presents a wide selection of issues currently of interest and concern in higher education institutions in Ireland. The chapters are snapshots of the intersection between theory, practice and research in particular settings; they are not meant to be comprehensive. Nevertheless, they present practice approaches, new theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Curriculum Design