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Gonzalez, Joseph J. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2018
Hoping to increase student engagement, the author decided to re-envision his course on contemporary global issues in a "flipped" format. The results proved encouraging--to a degree. Over the course of five semesters, applying lessons gleaned from the literature, students learned how to read challenging texts outside of class and…
Descriptors: Homework, Reading Assignments, Interviews, Teaching Methods
Chen, Victoria – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2018
Course instructors often rely on student participation to increase interaction and learning in the classroom. However, while verbalizing thoughts can help students learn, students in this study felt that frequency of contributions was often rewarded over quality. They called this "verbal diarrhea" and explained how prominent it was in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Participation, Interaction, College Students
Auerbach, Anna Jo J.; Andrews, Tessa C. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2018
Background: Though active-learning instruction has the potential to positively impact the preparation and diversity of STEM graduates, not all instructors are able to achieve this potential. One important factor is the teacher knowledge that instructors possess, including their pedagogical knowledge. Pedagogical knowledge is the knowledge about…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Active Learning, Large Group Instruction, Undergraduate Study
Chau, Salott; Cheung, Catherine – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
Active learning connects students to the real life situations they will encounter in their future jobs. In hospitality education, active learning implements various lively, fun activities to introduce practical scenarios students may experience in their hospitality careers. This study identifies 18 essential active-learning items of hospitality…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Hospitality Occupations, Teaching Methods, Literature Reviews
McHugh, David; Shaw, Sarah; Moore, Travis R.; Ye, Leafia Zi; Romero-Masters, Philip; Halverson, Richard – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020
Using a natural language processing tool, this study examined participant discourse in personalized learning schools to better understand what personalized learning looks like in practice. Term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) was used to identify the significant words and potential emergent themes for 134 interview transcripts. This…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Discourse Analysis, Word Frequency, Identification
Georgiou, Helen; Sharma, Manjula; Ling, Amanda – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
Peer Review of Teaching (PRT) programmes have been implemented in the Higher Education context to ensure teaching is a collaborative, evolving and inspiring activity in an era of ever shrinking resources. These programmes are reported to have many benefits but are notoriously difficult to implement and even more difficult to sustain, with research…
Descriptors: Case Studies, STEM Education, Interviews, Active Learning
Phillipson, Andrea; Riel, Annie; Leger, Andy B. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Over the past 20 years, interest in the impact of space on teaching and learning has grown, and higher education institutions have responded by creating Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs)--spaces designed to promote active, student-centred learning. While ALC research has explored teaching methods, student experience, and student learning, less is…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Beginning Teachers, Active Learning, Teaching Experience
Moffat, Kirstine; McKim, Anne – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
This article describes, discusses and reflects on a teaching and learning experiment in a first year BA course. Students were led out of the lecture room to a different space, the New Place Theatre. While this move out of the usual teaching space was appropriate for the text being studied, William Shakespeare's "The Tempest", the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Theater Arts, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
Singer-Brodowski, Mandy – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper's purpose is to describe students' learning processes in a project-based and self-organized seminar on sustainability. A detailed knowledge of typical learning processes is part of a pedagogical content knowledge of sustainability and can therefore contribute to the professional development of university educators.…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Sustainability, Learning Processes, Active Learning
Simpson, Colin – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Based on a phenomenological exploration of Chinese students at a UK university business school, this article supports a growing body of research questioning the assumptions underpinning the putative Socratic/Confucian dichotomy of academic cultures. Beginning with a review of research literature on the experiences of Chinese students on Active…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Interviews
Ustun, Ahmet Berk – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this multiple case design-based research study was to determine what elements were needed to assist two higher education instructors inexperienced in designing and teaching a blended learning course to successfully create and implement it, to document the instructors' perceptions about their first experience of teaching a blended…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, College Faculty, College Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
Iverson, Ellen A. Roscoe – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand the factors that support the adoption of active learning teaching strategies in undergraduate courses by faculty members, specifically in the STEM disciplines related to geoscience. The focus of the study centered on the context of the department which was identified as a gap in evaluation and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Active Learning, Science Instruction, Earth Science
Jääskelä, Päivikki; Häkkinen, Päivi; Rasku-Puttonen, Helena – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2017
This study examines university teachers' beliefs about the role of technology in achieving the pedagogical aims of learning within teaching development initiatives at a Finnish university. The initiatives targeted technology adoption in teaching and learning and were enhanced within teacher groups, with support from a university-level network…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Technology Integration, College Faculty, Content Analysis
Blakely, Barbara J. – College Teaching, 2015
A small-scale phenomenological study reveals interesting and suggestive insights into the pedagogical technology experiences of late-career faculty with institutional recognition as successful instructors. Referred to in much of the literature as "resistant" and assumed to lack training in pedagogical technology and/or to adhere to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Experience
Killins, Anita M. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
As medical knowledge grows exponentially and healthcare systems continue to utilize interdisciplinary care, it is essential that physical therapy (PT) graduates be prepared to practice efficiently and effectively on healthcare teams. Team-based learning (TBL) is a teaching pedagogy used in medicine to improve academic performance and teamwork…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Physical Therapy, Allied Health Occupations Education, Anatomy