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vanOostveen, Roland; Childs, Elizabeth; Clarkson, Jessica; Flynn, Kathleen – College Quarterly, 2016
Engaging in an online course has traditionally been perceived to be a lonely experience, with students busy viewing video lectures, working on problem sets and interacting intermittently with others using asynchronous technologies. More recently, over the past 6-7 years, online courses have become recognized as viable delivery vehicles for online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
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Hunter, Bill – College Quarterly, 2015
In the Winter, 2015, issue of the "College Quarterly," Donovan McFarlane provided some guidelines for the use of case studies in college teaching based in part on his own experience and in part on the published literature. This was not the first time that case-based teaching was the focus of work in the "College Quarterly."…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods, Guidelines
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Hunter, William J. – College Quarterly, 2015
In the first piece in this series ("Teaching for Engagement: Part 1: Constructivist Principles, Case-Based Teaching, and Active Learning"), William Hunter sought to make the case that a wide range of teaching methods (e.g., case-based teaching, problem-based learning, anchored instruction) that share an intellectual grounding in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Constructivism (Learning), Learner Engagement, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
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Teng, Loretta Y. – College Quarterly, 2006
The results of a college collaborative learning curriculum in Taiwan indicated satisfaction with the collaborative project resulting from familiarity with group members. Students asked more questions and they expressed more in class. The behaviors of feeling respected by group members, learning about self-expression and diverse opinions, as well…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
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Spasov, Peter – College Quarterly, 2004
Applied Projects is a program where every technology student engages in an intensive team project full time during the final academic semester. A wide range of enterprises provide the real-world problems that form the basis of student projects. This article describes the program and how Fleming College uses this program for applied research. To…
Descriptors: Technical Support, Student Projects, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Alcazar, Maria Teresa Moreno; Fitzgerald, Victoria Landa – College Quarterly, 2005
An experimental study was designed to study the effectiveness of Problem Based Learning (PBL) in the context of higher education in an urban-city university in Lima, Peru. In the fall semester of 2004, eleven sections of Chemistry 1 were offered to first year students in the College of Science at this University. In six of these eleven sections…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Group Activities, Problem Based Learning, Program Effectiveness