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Smith, Hamish; Townsend, Simon D. C. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This pilot study utilizes 360° camera and viewer technology in a science content-based EFL class at a Japanese University. Due to a lack of initial knowledge on how to best incorporate this technology into a content driven EFL class, a co-development strategy was devised between the teacher and students to dynamically design a course over…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English for Academic Purposes
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Watters, Pamela; Spas, Jayson – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2020
Researchers have found both that rewards decrease creativity and that rewards such as money/pay increase creativity. Higher education arts and STEM faculty acknowledge that their environment is often a pedagogical transmission system in which students are given final stress-evoking exams which typically result in little creativity growth and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Architectural Education, College Freshmen, Student Motivation
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Riyanti, Menul Teguh; Erwin, Tuti Nuriah; Suriani, S. H. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study was to develop a learning model based Commercial Graphic Design Drafting project-based learning approach, was chosen as a strategy in the learning product development research. University students as the target audience of this model are the students of the fifth semester Visual Communications Design Studies Program…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Formative Evaluation, Design
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Perrault, Evan K.; Albert, Cindy A. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2018
Sustainability-related learning objectives in university curricula are becoming increasingly popular. While knowledge gain is usually a prevalent metric of success, this study assessed whether a project-based learning assignment could lead to attitudinal shifts in students regarding sustainability. After performing both primary…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Sustainability, Student Attitudes
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Owen, Leanne – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This article provides an evaluation of the redesign of a research methods course intended to enhance students' learning for understanding and transfer. Drawing on principles of formative assessment from the existing academic literature, the instructor introduced a number of increasingly complex low-stakes assignments for students to complete prior…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Formative Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Research Methodology
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Mentzer, Nathan; Laux, Dawn; Zissimopoulos, Angelika; Richards, K. Andrew R. – Journal of Technology Education, 2017
Peer evaluation of team member effectiveness is often used to complement cooperative learning in the classroom by holding students accountable for their team contributions. Drawing on the tenants of self-determination theory, this study investigated the impact of formative peer evaluation in university level team-based design projects. The…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Intervention, Teamwork
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Jaako, Juha – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
A case study was conducted during 1994-2013 on several groups of process engineering students to see what was needed to transform a single course from a teacher-centred to a student-centred learning environment (SCLE). Development work was done incrementally, using Herbart's didactic triangle as a theoretical framework. The effects of the…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Case Studies, Educational Change
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Moll, Mark; Bordeaux, Janice; Kavraki, Lydia E. – Computer Science Education, 2013
Motion planning is a core problem in robotics concerned with finding feasible paths for a given robot. Motion planning algorithms perform a search in the high-dimensional continuous space of robot configurations and exemplify many of the core algorithmic concepts of search algorithms and associated data structures. Motion planning algorithms can…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Active Learning, Student Projects, Robotics
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Gómez Puente, Sonia M.; van Eijck, Michiel; Jochems, Wim – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
Design-based learning (DBL) is an educational approach grounded in the processes of inquiry and reasoning towards generating innovative artifacts, systems and solutions. The approach is well characterized in the context of learning natural sciences in secondary education. Less is known, however, of its characteristics in the context of higher…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Learning Strategies, Design, Natural Sciences
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Hains-Wesson, Rachael; Campbell, Angela – Issues in Educational Research, 2014
This study examines participants' responses to first year students' street performances as a non-placement work-integrated learning (WIL) activity over a two year period. The purpose of the study was to determine: (1) community perception, (2) continuous improvement, and (3) future needs. Data was collected through surveying participants'…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Art Activities, Art Education, Needs
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2010
For the thirty-third year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. This is Volume #2 of the 33rd "Annual Proceedings of Selected Papers on the Practice of Educational Communications and Technology." This volume includes…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Management Systems, Technology Uses in Education, Web Sites