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Peer Assessment in a Project-Based Engineering Course: Comparing between On-Campus and Online Learning Environments
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Usher, Maya; Barak, Miri – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
As the number of participants in online distance learning courses increases, peer assessment is becoming a popular strategy for evaluating open assignments and for breaking the social isolation surrounding distance education. Yet, the quality and characteristics of peer assessment in massive online courses has received little attention. Hence,…
Descriptors: College Students, Technology Education, Peer Evaluation, Student Projects
Promoting Engagement in Online Courses: What Strategies Can We Learn from Three Highly Rated MOOCS
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Hew, Khe Foon – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Although past research has sought to identify the factors of student engagement in traditional online courses, two questions remained largely unanswered with regard to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): do the factors that could influence student engagement in traditional online courses also apply to online courses that are massive and open?…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learner Engagement, Large Group Instruction, Learning Experience
An Evaluation of Applying Blended Practices to Employ Studio-Based Learning in a Large-Enrollment Design Thinking Course
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Brown, Sydney E.; Karle, Sarah Thomas; Kelly, Brian – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2015
DSGN110 was a multidisciplinary course teaching first year students enrolled in in a variety of majors about design thinking. The course is offered for the majors of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, community and regional planning, along with computer science and business students. By blending face-to-face and online…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Blended Learning, Design, Outcomes of Education
Managing Active Learning Processes in Large First Year Physics Classes: The Advantages of an Integrated Approach
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Drinkwater, Michael J.; Gannaway, Deanne; Sheppard, Karen; Davis, Matthew J.; Wegener, Margaret J.; Bowen, Warwick P.; Corney, Joel F. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2014
Turning lectures into interactive, student-led question and answer sessions is known to increase learning, but enabling interaction in a large class seems an insurmountable task. This can discourage adoption of this new approach -- who has time to individualize responses, address questions from over 200 students and encourage active participation…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Processes, Large Group Instruction, College Freshmen
Teacher Trainers' and Trainees' Perceptions, Practices, and Constraints to Active Learning Methods: The Case of English Department in Bahir Dar University
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Engidaw, Berhanu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
This study is on teacher trainers and teacher trainees' perceptions and practices of active learning and the constraints to implementing them in the English Department of Bahir Dar University. A mixed study approach that involves a quantitative self administered questionnaire, a semi-structured lesson observation guide, and qualitative in depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Teacher Attitudes, Active Learning
How Clicker Use Facilitates Existing Pedagogical Practices in Higher Education: Data from Interdisciplinary Research on Student Response Systems
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Hoekstra, Angel; Mollborn, Stefanie – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
This article identifies how clicker use can support or augment existing principles of good teaching across different disciplines in higher education. While many of these principles will be familiar to instructors, the link between student response system (SRS) use and existing pedagogical methods is still often unclear, even for scholars who are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Intellectual Disciplines