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Sarah F. Small – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
The author of this article describes an exercise for introductory economics courses in which students are exposed to the breadth of economic study using JEL codes. JEL codes have historically been used to classify economic subject matter and ultimately document the ever-evolving scope of economics. This discussion assignment provides an…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Introductory Courses, Learning Activities, Assignments
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Annie Kelly; Chris Cooper; Vladimir Miskovic – New Directions for Student Services, 2023
Appreciative Advising is applied in the creation and delivery of an "Appreciative Mentorship" course for University of Cincinnati undergraduate peer mentors. The article explores course content, learning activities, and assignments. A former peer mentor shares examples of applying the phases when mentoring pre-professional engineering…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Peer Relationship, Engineering Education
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Phelps, Sean; Milstein, Sloane; French, Patrice – College Student Journal, 2023
Many academic programs often require work integrated learning (WIL) in the form of internships, fieldwork, and practicums. As a method of preparing students for entry level employment, WIL experiences have been found to be beneficial by the student, employer, and advisors. However, researchers and academics commonly cite the need for additional…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Career Readiness, Assignments, Learning Activities
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Morgan M. Bryant; Jen Riley – Marketing Education Review, 2024
Student engagement is a growing challenge within higher education, especially as technology continues to evolve and competition for attention rises. As a business discipline, many marketing students struggle to connect with the theory presented in the classroom and seek interactive, experiential learning opportunities. The authors created the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Marketing, Music, Learning Activities
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Field M. Watts; Solaire A. Finkenstaedt-Quinn; Ginger V. Shultz – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Research on student learning in organic chemistry indicates that students tend to focus on surface level features of molecules with less consideration of implicit properties when engaging in mechanistic reasoning. Writing-to-learn (WTL) is one approach for supporting students' mechanistic reasoning. A variation of WTL incorporates peer review and…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Writing Assignments, Design, Peer Evaluation
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Lara Grow – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2025
This article describes an in-class exercise that can be used when teaching zoning law to a Real Estate Law or Legal Environment of Business undergraduate course. The exercise requires students to utilize Salt Lake City's zoning code to locate the best site for a restaurant chain given certain locational and operational requirements, and to…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Undergraduate Students, Zoning, Real Estate
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Yanping Ma; Gail Tang – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
We believe that developing cultural competencies can help students learn mathematics and conversely that learning mathematical content can help students learn about themselves and others. Using frameworks introduced by Rendón (2009) and Gutiérrez (2018), we present a five-part bundle of activities for undergraduate differential equations course…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Advanced Courses, Correlation
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Kim, Albert Y.; Hardin, Johanna – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021
We provide a computational exercise suitable for early introduction in an undergraduate statistics or data science course that allows students to "play the whole game" of data science: performing both data collection and data analysis. While many teaching resources exist for data analysis, such resources are not as abundant for data…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Statistics Education, Undergraduate Students
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Koch, Mary Kate; Mendle, Jane – Teaching of Psychology, 2023
Background: Incorporating professional development into undergraduate psychology coursework is an ongoing area of improvement for educators. Objective: We present a novel activity encouraging students to explore various professional skills and roles for which their psychology major prepares them through application to real-world issues. Method:…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Developmental Psychology, Majors (Students), Professional Development
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Lucas, Melissa A.; Anderson, Lindsey B.; Gray, Katlin – Communication Teacher, 2022
Incorporating civic engagement in the undergraduate curriculum has become a goal in higher education generally and the communication discipline specifically. Given this emerging priority, we offer a framework that integrates civic engagement in the communication classroom and meets students and instructors needs, experience, and goals. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Civics, Undergraduate Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Social Problems
Cara E. Schwarz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
My thesis work is focused on conceptual and epistemic learning and characterizing the environments in which this learning takes place. Earlier studies conducted by the Stowe group explored how instructional practices, instructional emphasis, and assessment emphasis relate to student outcomes in general and organic chemistry courses. Student…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Epistemology
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Yabing Jiang; Kazuo Nakatani – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2025
This research answers the call for Information Systems (IS) faculty to actively embrace rapidly advancing AI tools in teaching. We experimented with redesigning learning activities in two courses, requiring students to use GenAI, to aid student learning and teach responsible use of GenAI. The results show that students in the experimental group…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education
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Uttal, Lynet; Gloria, Alberta M. – International Journal on E-Learning, 2021
Many instructors question the move to online teaching and learning and it is often met with resistance as they fear that on-line learning will be more structurally didactic. In particular, one of the major concerns is that the value of face-to-face discussions will be lost. This is a core concern for courses that require the development of…
Descriptors: Reflection, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students, Online Courses
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Kjølseth, Martha Clabby; Siddiq, Fazilat – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2023
This study investigates how students experience and describe group work in an online course in international business (IB) after being introduced to Barnes' exploratory talk ground rules (ETGRs) which promote norms for dialog that encourage participants to share ideas and information and to think together. This study examines the dialog in groups…
Descriptors: International Trade, Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning, Online Courses
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Kevin M. Bonney – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
This article provides and reflects on an original lesson plan for engaging high school, undergraduate, or graduate students in learning fundamental concepts of environmental ethics. Implementation of this lesson plan effectively promoted critical analysis, reflection, and communication of environmental ethics issues in a seminar for second-year…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Activities, Lesson Plans, Teacher Effectiveness
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