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Ramsgaard, Michael Breum; Christensen, Marie Ernst – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
This paper explores the concept of learning in a setting of experiential knowledge acquisition. The main focus is how facilitators of learning processes can design learning spaces, where the boundaries of what is expected from the learner are challenged. The aim is to explore the action-based learning processes occurring in experiential learning…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Entrepreneurship, Experiential Learning, Curriculum Development
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Song, Yanjie – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
The paper reports on an empirical study adopting a mixed research method, aiming at improving primary students' collaborative problem solving competency in project-based learning with productive failure (PF) instructional design in a seamless learning environment. Two Grade Six classes participated in a project-based learning of "Plant…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Skill Development
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Clark, Renee; Kaw, Autar; Lou, Yingyan; Scott, Andrew; Besterfield-Sacre, Mary – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
With the literature calling for comparisons among technology-enhanced or active-learning pedagogies, a blended versus flipped instructional comparison was made for numerical methods coursework using three engineering schools with diverse student demographics. This study contributes to needed comparisons of enhanced instructional approaches in STEM…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Engineering Education
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Saliba, Reya; Mussleman, Paul; Fernandes, Melanie; Bendriss, Rachid – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
This study describes the implementation of information literacy (IL) skills through the use of the project-based learning (PjBL) method in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course. Participants were Arabic speaking students enrolled in the Foundation Program that prepared them for the pre-medical curriculum in a U.S. medical college in the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Learning Activities, Metacognition, Critical Thinking
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Dean, Suzanne; Williams, Claire; Donnelly, Samantha; Levett-Jones, Tracy – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
University programs are currently faced with a number of challenges: how to engage students as active learners, how to ensure graduates are "work ready" with broad and relevant professional skills, and how to support students to see their potential as agents of social change and contributors to social good. This paper presents the…
Descriptors: Females, Active Learning, Safety, Social Change
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Drinkwater, Michael J.; Gannaway, Deanne; Sheppard, Karen; Davis, Matthew J.; Wegener, Margaret J.; Bowen, Warwick P.; Corney, Joel F. – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2014
Turning lectures into interactive, student-led question and answer sessions is known to increase learning, but enabling interaction in a large class seems an insurmountable task. This can discourage adoption of this new approach -- who has time to individualize responses, address questions from over 200 students and encourage active participation…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Processes, Large Group Instruction, College Freshmen