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Niever, Manuel; Richter, Thilo; Duehr, Katharina; Wilmsen, Miriam; Lanz, Laura; Walter, Benjamin; Albers, Albert; Hahn, Carsten – Athens Journal of Education, 2020
The working environment of future university graduates is characterized by highly dynamic and complex product development processes. In addition to disciplinary competence, it is essential to build up methodical and social competence as well as to foster the elaboration and creativity potential of students. In order to meet industrial requirements…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Active Learning, Engineering Education
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Chand, Vijaya Sherry; Deshmukh, Ketan Satish – Education & Training, 2019
Purpose: The difficulties higher education institutions in developing countries face in finding adequate and relevant onsite student internship opportunities make a case for online internships. The purpose of this paper is to present an online internship model, developed over a two-year period, which challenged students to engage in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Internship Programs, Developing Nations, Student Projects
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Bers, Trudy; Chun, Marc; Daly, William T.; Harrington, Christine; Tobolowsky, Barbara F. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2015
"Foundations for Critical Thinking" explores the landscape of critical-thinking skill development and pedagogy through foundational chapters and institutional case studies involving a range of students in diverse settings. By establishing a link between active learning and improved critical thinking, this resource encourages all higher…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
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Hernández, Laura E.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Adams, Julie; Bradley, Kathryn – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Many educators have created successful innovative models but have had difficulty sustaining, re-creating, and scaling these models. Classrooms and schools characterized by student-centered learning practices typically deviate from the norms of transmission teaching and the many structures and procedures that David Tyack and Larry Cuban called the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Student Centered Curriculum
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Hernández, Laura E.; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
One of the mysteries of education reform is how leaders and educators can successfully instantiate, sustain, and spread student-centered pedagogical practices from a few schools to many others. Advocates for "deeper learning" grapple with this mystery as they seek to transform teaching and learning to prepare students to meet the demands…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Student Centered Curriculum
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Dodd, Anne Wescott – NASSP Bulletin, 1996
Professional development schools serve both novice and experienced teachers' needs by combining teacher education with professional development and school-restructuring efforts. Such schools are creating new opportunities for learning by teaching, doing, and collaborating. This article describes the University of Southern Maine's one-year,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Internship Programs