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Wangda Zhu; Ying Hua – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
During the COVID-19 quarantine, we conducted a field-setting pre/post-test randomized experiment (n = 115), creating a community using the social media application Instagram to enhance students' interactions with their peers and immediate physical environments in a large, introductory online course in environmental psychology. We used the…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Social Networks, Social Media, Cooperative Learning
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Swank, Lorett; Whitton, Natasha – Journal of Faculty Development, 2019
This article focuses on techniques used in professional development to strengthen the community of faculty in FYE courses, while aiming at improving the classroom experience for today's learners, specifically those related to providing content, building community, and strengthening understanding. To provide a solid foundation, creating a course…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, First Year Seminars, Curriculum Design
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Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Chi, Min, Ed.; Feng, Mingyu, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
The 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2016) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, in the USA. The conference, held June 29-July 2, 2016, follows the eight previous editions (Madrid 2015, London 2014, Memphis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Inquiry, Science Instruction
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Love, Tanzy; Keinert, Fritz; Shelley, Mack – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2006
The Department of Mathematics at Iowa State University teaches a freshman-level Discrete Mathematics course with total enrollment of about 1,800 students per year. The traditional format includes large lectures, with about 150 students each, taught by faculty and temporary instructors in two class sessions per week and recitation sections, with…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Lecture Method, Web Based Instruction