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Amelie D. Smucker; Sarah M. Nuss – William & Mary Educational Review, 2023
As K-12 educators work toward targeted, small group instruction together with college and career readiness skills, many implement collaborative learning experiences within their classrooms. Collaborative learning can help students develop deeper understandings of content while building critical life-long skills, and using a design for learning…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Small Group Instruction
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LuEttaMae Lawrence; Vanessa Echeverria; Kexin Yang; Vincent Aleven; Nikol Rummel – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance teachers' capabilities by sharing control over different parts of learning activities. This is especially true for complex learning activities, such as dynamic learning transitions where students move between individual and collaborative learning in un-planned ways, as the need arises. Yet, few initiatives…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology, Learning Activities
Safaa Youssef El-Mansy – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As educators, our goal is to help our students be successful, but in order to accomplish this, we need to understand what factors contribute to student success. One factor, small-group active learning, has been correlated to improved academic outcomes; however, the magnitude of this improvement can vary across different courses, different types of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Worksheets, Discourse Analysis
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Michael Johnson; Anne Griffin – Journal of Experiential Education, 2024
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, restricted access to in-person facilities and traditional experiential learning activities meant that new, online solutions were needed to facilitate student learning/development across the disciplines of Allied Health and Engineering. Purpose: This article describes research conducted as part of an…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Electronic Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Dietetics
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Sanjay Jeram – College Teaching, 2024
Urban universities with a predominantly commuting student population face distinct challenges in fostering social connections. Commuting students spend less time on campus and have fewer opportunities for organized and spontaneous social interactions with other students. The campus experience for commuter students tends to center around the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Large Group Instruction, Class Size, Lecture Method
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Hurst, Glenn A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
The Group Exercises is a distinctive collaborative group working activity completed by approximately 170 second-year undergraduate chemistry students each year in June. The activity comprises students working in randomly allocated teams of 4-6 members to complete a structured learning package to solve chemistry problems with industrial relevance…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Large Group Instruction, Learning Activities
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McNicholl, T. H.; Frank, K.; Hogenson, K.; Roat, J.; Carlson, M. P. – PRIMUS, 2021
We discuss an implementation of the research-based Pathways precalculus curriculum in a large-lecture format supported by recitations, clickers, and online homework. We describe our approach to adapting the implementation of Pathways precalculus from a small class to a large lecture instructional format. We report data on student learning and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Teaching Methods, Calculus
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Wieselmann, Jeanna R.; Keratithamkul, Khomson; Dare, Emily A.; Ring-Whalen, Elizabeth A.; Roehrig, Gillian H. – Research in Science Education, 2021
Integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is becoming increasingly common in K-12 classrooms, and small group activities are ubiquitous to STEM instruction. This article includes both theoretical and practical descriptions of a microethnographic approach to critical multimodal discourse analysis that we used to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Power Structure, Group Dynamics, STEM Education
Lashawn A. Mcneil – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine how small groups of students in an introductory undergraduate chemistry course construct CERs and the influence of race, gender, and perceived status during this construction. The small groups of students engaged in three chemistry activities that required them to generate a claim, evidence, and reasoning…
Descriptors: Race, Gender Differences, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Kinsella, Gemma K.; Mahon, Catherine; Lillis, Seamus – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2017
It is envisaged that small-group exercises as part of a large-group session would facilitate not only group work exercises (a valuable employability skill), but also peer learning. In this article, such a strategy to facilitate the active engagement of the student in a large-group setting was explored. The production of student-led resources was…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Group Activities, Learner Engagement, College Science
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Martynyuk, Olena – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2019
The paper deals with the technology of using a flipped classroom model in teaching linguistic disciplines to students majoring in a foreign language. The suggested idea of 'flipped classroom' is based on the use of Moodle learning platform which is designed to provide educators and learners with a secure and integrated system to create…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Models, College Students
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Quintana, Rebecca M.; Tan, Yuanru – Online Learning, 2019
We explore new tools and methods for learning designers and researchers to characterize pedagogical approaches that are applied to the design of MOOCs. This paper makes three main contributions to literature on MOOC design and evaluation: (1) an Expanded Assessing MOOC Pedagogies instrument for use by learning designers and researchers within…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
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Fortino, Carol; Gerretson, Helen; Button, Linda; Masters, Vivian – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2014
A growing body of research, both nationally and internationally, indicates that children in the early childhood years (birth to age 8) learn primarily through their senses and from direct experience. They develop an understanding about the world through play, exploration, and creative activities as well as by watching and imitating adults and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Teaching Methods
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Cooper, Katelyn M.; Downing, Virginia R.; Brownell, Sara E. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2018
Background: Over the past decade, the prevalence of anxiety has increased among college-aged students and college counseling centers have become increasingly concerned about the negative impact of anxiety on students. While college in general can be stressful, college science classrooms have the potential to be especially anxiety-inducing because…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Large Group Instruction, Anxiety, Learning Activities
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Jellison, Judith A.; Draper, Ellary A.; Brown, Laura S. – Music Educators Journal, 2017
Children have a natural proclivity to teach, help, cooperate, and empathize with others, and these interactions can have positive benefits for children's emotional, social, and cognitive development. This article is about ways music teachers can design peer-assisted music learning activities that will benefit everyone in the class and ultimately…
Descriptors: Music Education, Peer Teaching, Interaction, Learning Activities
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