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Carmin Chan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student veterans are often viewed in popular culture with a deficit mindset. They are "wounded warriors" who are navigating mental health challenges, academically underprepared, and non-traditional students balancing other responsibilities beyond college. Despite potential lingering effects of military service, student veterans bring…
Descriptors: Veterans, Veterans Education, Prior Learning, Universities
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Jin Zhou; Jun-min Ye – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Online collaborative learning (OCL) has become a common instructional strategy in higher education for developing students' skills in collaboration, problem-solving, and critical thinking. Cognitive engagement in OCL evolves dynamically, but we do not yet fully understand which patterns of cognitive engagement are conducive to OCL and when to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Learner Engagement
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Hemson, Crispin – Perspectives in Education, 2018
This study seeks to understand how a group of boys in a Durban township achieved exceptional educational results despite the severe financial, social and educational constraints they faced. Their high school typified the worst failings of the South African educational system, but they achieved academic success in the matriculation and at…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Males, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
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Clark, Kathleen; James, Alex; Montelle, Clemency – Research in Mathematics Education, 2014
The ability to address and solve problems in minimally familiar contexts is the core business of research mathematicians. Recent studies have identified key traits and techniques that individuals exhibit while problem solving, and revealed strategies and behaviours that are frequently invoked in the process. We studied advanced calculus students…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Teamwork, Educational Practices
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Navaresse, Daniel O.; Yauch, Charlene A.; Goff, Kathy; Fonseca, Daniel J. – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
This study used an experimental approach to investigate the conditions under which creative outcomes should be expected from the interplay of individual creativity, the innovation orientation of the organizational culture, and the rewards distribution rules. The results of this study suggest that the individual creativity of technically educated…
Descriptors: Creativity, Organizational Culture, Creative Thinking, Creativity Tests
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Alavi, H. S.; Dillenbourg, P. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2012
We describe an ambient awareness tool, named "Lantern", designed for supporting the learning process in recitation sections, (i.e., when students work in small teams on the exercise sets with the help of tutors). Each team is provided with an interactive lamp that displays their work status: the exercise they are working on, if they have…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Group Behavior
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Jahng, Namsook – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
This study investigated communication patterns and behavior in problem-solving groups in a graduate online course. An inductive qualitative analysis method was employed to analyze 732 messages that were retrieved from small group forums. The current study identified a temporal pattern of group development was in comparison with existing…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Problem Solving, Models, Group Behavior