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Gail Matthews-Denatale; Laurie Poklop; Rachel Plews; Mary English – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
In summer 2020, Northeastern University developed a fully online curricular pathway for incoming fall first-year undergraduate students who could not learn in residence. This pathway included 18 Global Challenge (GC) courses, each designed around project-based learning (PBL), grounded in a complex problem defined by Northeastern University…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development
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Hobbs, Elizabeth; Schisler, Laura; Pressley, Hugh; Smith, Walter – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2021
Picture students huddled around a 3D printer in a middle school classroom. They gaze at the object being printed, and exclamations of, "Where is that flag from?" "What does that symbol mean?" and "Oh; I didn't think of that!" can be heard. These examples of observation, curiosity, and critical thinking are the elusive…
Descriptors: Computer Peripherals, Printing, Student Projects, Global Approach
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A^ngelo F. Pitanga; Deley A. N. da Silva; Douglas D. de Menezes; Franciele da S. Mota – Journal of Chemical Education, 2025
This Article aims to share the results of a project that was developed with 80 students from Technical High School of Professional and Technological Education (PTE) at an institute located in the northeast of Brazil. The students discussed the global overview of fuel production and use, and how the introduction of green hydrogen into the market…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Budiarti, Marini; Macqueen, Suzanne; Ferguson-Patrick, Kate; Reynolds, Ruth – Journal of International Social Studies, 2021
Although developing the 21st century skills of Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity have been seen as an important foundation of 21st century teaching and learning, there have been difficulties identified in 4Cs implementation in schools. Primarily, issues associated with an overcrowded and disjointed curriculum, a…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Global Education, 21st Century Skills, Student Projects
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Diego-Mantecón, José-Manuel; Blanco, Teresa-F.; Ortiz-Laso, Zaira; Lavicza, Zsolt – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2021
Secondary education curricula highlight competence-based learning; although meaningful school-intervention habits have not yet been observed. The initiatives implemented have focused primarily on promoting the combined development of no more than three key competences. This article presents an international study under the Erasmus+ and H2020…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Active Learning, Student Projects
Wise, Mark; McTighe, Jay – Educational Leadership, 2017
From global hunger to the world's water crisis, middle school students at New Jersey's West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District spend the last few days of the school year problem solving about the planet's most dire issues. With the Global Challenge, the school district's administrators not only want to implement an interesting and dynamic…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Global Education, Global Approach, Problem Solving
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Hennessey, Eden; Mueller, Julie – Canadian Journal of Education, 2020
As a problem-solving approach, design thinking (DT) emphasizes iterative, user-focused designing. While DT is being readily adopted into education, little is known about how educators integrate DT across curricula. To address this question, we collaborated with a tech-ed industry partner and a focus group of experienced educators to assess…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Student Projects
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Malheiro, Benedita; Silva, Manuel; Ribeiro, Maria Cristina; Guedes, Pedro; Ferreira, Paulo – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Current engineering education challenges require approaches that promote scientific, technical, design and complementary skills while fostering autonomy, innovation and responsibility. The European Project Semester (EPS) at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) (EPS@ISEP) is a one semester project-based learning programme (30 European…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Problem Solving, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cultural Pluralism
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Garcia, Oscar N.; Varanasi, Murali R.; Acevedo, Miguel F.; Guturu, Parthasarathy – Advances in Engineering Education, 2011
We analyze and study the beginning of a new Electrical Engineering Department, supported by an NSF Departmental Level Reform award, within a new College of Engineering in the 21st Century and also describe the academic approach and influences of an innovative cognitive-based approach to curriculum development. In addition, the approach taken…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Electrical Occupations, Engineering, Departments
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Kuzma, Lynn M. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1998
Addresses the use of the World Wide Web by international relations students and scholars. Considers an instructional web project for an international relations class outlining the project's contribution to active learning and the development of students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Provides advice for educators interested in…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Educational Benefits, Global Approach
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2012
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2011 proceedings, see ED518589.]
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Technology, Social Studies, Annual Reports
AFS International/Intercultural Programs, Inc., New York, NY. – 1980
This monograph provides a description of the teaching methods and goals of the "Assessment of Neighborhood/Transnational Human Relations through Original Studies" (ANTHROS) project. ANTHROS is a team-effort community discovery project for young people between the ages of 15 and 20. Its aim is to increase knowledge of the international links of…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Community Relations, Community Study, Discovery Learning
Levin, James A. – 1985
Educationally successful electronic network activities involving microcomputers and long-distance networks include a student newswire, joint social science projects, and joint science projects. A newswire activity, such as "The Computer Chronicles," can provide a wide range of audiences for writing, a functional environment for reading, and a…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach