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Gurfinkel, Debbie M.; Wolever, Thomas M. S. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2017
The completion of a 3-d food record, using commonly available nutrient analysis software, is a typical assignment for students in nutrition and food science programs. While these assignments help students evaluate their personal diets, it is insufficient to teach students about surveys of large population cohorts. This paper shows how the Test,…
Descriptors: Food, Diaries, Nutrition Instruction, Assignments
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Harlan-Haughey, Sarah; Cunningham, Taylor; Lees, Katherine; Estrup, Andrew – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2016
Blogging is an excellent way to implement students bringing their further insights to their classmates following an exciting class discussion, continuing an exchange of ideas and providing students with another tool to improve their writing skills. Student class blogging offers many benefits--for student and instructor alike--compared to assigning…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Diaries
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Crocitto, Madeline M.; Walsh, Lynn D.; Murphy, Albert; Keefe, Maureen A. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Business educators are concerned with integrating diversity-related topics and seek methods by which to teach them. This paper suggests that as classes become more heterogeneous, the opportunity to examine diverse perspectives and experiences naturally arises in the course of class assignments and activities. The differential experiences of…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Student Diversity, Teaching Methods, Identification (Psychology)
Askren, Joe – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explore how students described the curriculum in the Introduction to Food Production class and how they perceived the curriculum prepared them for their future in the hospitality industry. The exploratory questions that guided the study were how do students describe the experiential learning curriculum in the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Hospitality Occupations, Curriculum, Guidelines
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Yueh, Hsin-I Sydney – Communication Teacher, 2015
One of the methods used to enhance students' ability not only to identify different cultures but also to describe their own cultures with proper analytical vocabulary is to teach students how to play the role of an outsider of their culture and de-familiarize their everyday practice so that they can distinguish cultural patterns and…
Descriptors: Role, Ethnography, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
Rowden Quince, Bianca C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Student success in community-college online courses remains a topic of concern within higher-education research. Online courses offer flexibility and opportunities for students to learn anytime and anywhere. Students who are not prepared for the anytime-anywhere format struggle in online courses. As enrollment in online courses increases, the rate…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, College Students, Online Courses
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Pauwels, Paul – Language Learning Journal, 2012
This paper reports on a quasi-experimental study of the effect of different vocabulary study materials and strategies used by upper-intermediate English as a foreign language students in higher education. Students were assigned a selection of 163 words from the Academic Word List and were provided with different types of study materials. They were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sentences, Study Habits, Word Lists
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Yang, Yu-Feng – Language Learning & Technology, 2011
This qualitative study aims to understand how English learners interpret shared space in an online multilateral English blogging context and how their interpretations of shared space contribute to their multilateral exchange experience. Twenty-four Asian learners of English from two different universities--one in Japan and one in…
Descriptors: Assignments, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Second Language Learning
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Barnes, Lynne – Deafness and Education International, 2006
There is clear evidence that increasing numbers of deaf students are now beginning to enter higher education (http://www.natdisteam.ac.uk). However, it is also evident that many of these students enter university presenting at below national norms in terms of their literacy. In short, many pre-lingual deaf students face an incredible language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Deafness, National Norms