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Using Calibrated Peer Review to Teach Basic Research Skills
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Bracke, Marianne S.; Graveel, John G. – Natural Sciences Education, 2014
Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) is an online tool being used in the class Introduction to Agriculture and Purdue University (AGR 10100) to integrate a writing and research component (http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/Home.aspx). Calibrated Peer Review combines the ability to create writing intensive assignments with an introduction to the peer-review…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Research Skills, Agricultural Education, Introductory Courses
A Virtual Embedded Microcontroller Laboratory for Undergraduate Education: Development and Evaluation
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Richardson, Jeffrey J.; Adamo-Villani, Nicoletta – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2010
Laboratory instruction is a major component of the engineering and technology undergraduate curricula. Traditional laboratory instruction is hampered by several factors including limited access to resources by students and high laboratory maintenance cost. A photorealistic 3D computer-simulated laboratory for undergraduate instruction in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Computer Simulation, Equipment
What Students Want
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Schaffhauser, Dian – Campus Technology, 2010
Institutions already cater to the technology needs of students. According to the 2008 Campus Computing survey, 60 percent of colleges and universities offer pervasive or near-pervasive wireless; computers are as ubiquitous as water bottles; course management systems have become one-stop shops for class content; few classrooms lack projectors; and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, College Administration, Student Surveys
Really Simple Syndication (RSS): An Educational Approach
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Glotzbach, Ronald J.; Mohler, James L.; Radwan, Jaime E. – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2009
Today's post-secondary students are technologically savvy and they expect faculty to use myriad web technologies for course delivery. This includes taking advantage of email, course web sites, and online learning communities. However, expectations now also include RSS, blogs, web- and pod-casting, extending the classroom experience to provide…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Internet, Distance Education
Places--and Faces--that Foster Student Success. Lumina Foundation Lessons, Spring 2007
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Miller, Holly; Spence, Sue – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2007
"Lumina Foundation Lessons" is an occasional publication in which the foundation shares the results of its grantees' work on strategies to improve the persistence rates among Indiana's underserved college freshman and sophomore populations. This issue, the first in the series, contains the following articles: (1) Summer Transition…
Descriptors: Persistence, Service Learning, Community Colleges, Computer Uses in Education
Annual Proceedings of Selected Papers on the Practice of Educational Communications and Technology Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (33rd, Anaheim, California, 2010). Volume 2
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2010
For the thirty-third year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. This is Volume #2 of the 33rd "Annual Proceedings of Selected Papers on the Practice of Educational Communications and Technology." This volume includes…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Management Systems, Technology Uses in Education, Web Sites
Research Fresh from Florida. Proceedings of the National Agricultural Education Research Conference (26th, Orlando, Florida, December 11, 1999).
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American Association for Agricultural Education. – 1999
The following are among the 47 papers included: "Academic Performance and Retention of College of Agriculture Students" (Garton, Dyer, King); "Perceptions of Recent Graduates and Employers about Undergraduate Programs in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University" (Heyboer, Suvedi);…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Adult Education, Agricultural Education