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Zhicheng Dai; Yue Yang; Zengzhao Chen; Ling Wang; Liang Zhao; Xiaoliang Zhu; Junxia Xiong – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Higher education is beginning to focus on how to effectively cultivate IoT engineers who possess both hard skills and soft skills. Therefore, from the perspective of activity theory and combining it with project-based learning, this study constructed a project-based learning framework based on activity theory and applied this framework to an IoT…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Teacher Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness
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Metz, Cynthia J.; Metz, Michael J. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic required a shift to online learning that posed particular challenges for the education of dental students. Basic science courses were presented in an online, asynchronous format to facilitate small group rotations through preclinical work. The success of active learning was previously examined in a Dental Physiology course,…
Descriptors: Physiology, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Linneman, Judith A. – Teaching Sociology, 2019
Impacts of incorporating active learning pedagogies into a lecture-based course were examined among 266 students across nine research methods course sections taught by one instructor at a large public university. Pedagogies evaluated include lecture only, lecture with small group discussions, and lecture with simulations. Although…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Simulation, Lecture Method, Teaching Methods
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Hempel, Byron R.; Kiehlbugh, Kasi; Blowers, Paul – Chemical Engineering Education, 2019
A sophomore core chemical engineering course was co-taught by two different 4 instructors in Spring 2016 and Spring 2017 with approximately 90 students both semesters via an 5 active learning environment in a collaborative learning space. Both instructors were present for 6 almost all lectures and each instructor delivered approximately 50% of the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Chemical Engineering
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Johnson, Paul Andrew – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2011
The purpose of this study was to compare course evaluation responses of students enrolled in several sections of a graduate level human growth and development course taught with a traditional lecture/textbook approach to the course evaluation responses of students enrolled subsequent sessions of the same graduate human growth and development…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Individual Development, Textbooks, Lecture Method
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Fitzpatrick, J.; Cronin, K.; Byrne, E. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
A case study was conducted on a group of undergraduate chemical engineering students to assess the relevance of attending lectures from a student perspective and to understand why these students attend and do not attend lectures with a view to developing approaches to teaching, which are of greater interest and benefit to student learning. The…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Active Learning, Chemical Engineering, Lecture Method
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Linton, Debra L.; Pangle, Wiline M.; Wyatt, Kevin H.; Powell, Karli N.; Sherwood, Rachel E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2014
We investigated some of the key features of effective active learning by comparing the outcomes of three different methods of implementing active-learning exercises in a majors introductory biology course. Students completed activities in one of three treatments: discussion, writing, and discussion + writing. Treatments were rotated weekly between…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Introductory Courses, Biology, Majors (Students)
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Revell, Andrea; Wainwright, Emma – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2009
This research explores "teaching excellence" by examining the perceptions of geography academics and students at Brunel University as to what makes a lecture "unmissable". The findings from 10 interviews with lecturers and five focus groups with undergraduate students suggest that whilst there is probably no such thing as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Active Learning, Lecture Method
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Ernst, Hardy; Colthorpe, Kay – Advances in Physiology Education, 2007
Learning is an active process, and, as such, interactive lectures are considered as the educational best practice. This study investigated the efficacy of interactive lecturing in a module of eight respiratory physiology lectures in a second-year Physiology course with two distinct subcohorts: students with strong science backgrounds and those…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Physiology, Lecture Method, Student Attitudes
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Mehta, Sudhir I. – Journal of Engineering Education, 1995
Describes a teaching method that provides instant assessment of student learning and allows instructors to take corrective measures in the same class period. The method is based on asking a multiple-choice question after every 10-20 minutes of lecture and getting responses from students. This methods allows all students to actively participate and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Creative Teaching, Engineering Education, Higher Education
Lucas, Christopher J.; Murry, John W., Jr. – 2002
This book offers "survival" advice for faculty newcomers, organizing the discussion under the actual categories of work in which faculty typically engage. Chapter 1, "Institutional Environment and the Academic Community," examines the culture of an academic institution and how faculty newcomers become acculturated or socialized…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Active Learning, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty
Clawson, James G. S.; Haskins, Mark E. – Cambridge University Press, 2006
How can every management class be a dynamic, unforgettable experience? This much-needed book distills over half a century of the authors' combined experience as university professors, consultants, and advisors to corporate training departments. In a lively, hands-on fashion, it describes the fundamental elements in every learning situation,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Learning Theories, Consultants, Training