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Zhicheng Dai; Yue Yang; Zengzhao Chen; Ling Wang; Liang Zhao; Xiaoliang Zhu; Junxia Xiong – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Higher education is beginning to focus on how to effectively cultivate IoT engineers who possess both hard skills and soft skills. Therefore, from the perspective of activity theory and combining it with project-based learning, this study constructed a project-based learning framework based on activity theory and applied this framework to an IoT…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Teacher Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness
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Hari Kusmanto; Zamzani Zamzani; Maman Suryaman – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2024
Academic writing has been a widely substantial course in higher education as it plays a vital role in cultivating students' academic writing skills. Drawing on qualitative descriptive study, this study aims to explore the fundamental requirements for academic writing to base the creation of an effective learning framework. Data consisted of…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Higher Education, Writing Skills, Teaching Methods
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Nagma Zerin – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
Project-Enhanced learning is an excellent way to facilitate student-centered learning along with traditional lecture-based learning. In this Class and Home problem, an example of Project-Enhanced learning is provided that can be used in the Mass and Energy Balances (MEB) course. The students solve this problem as part of a group while receiving…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Student Centered Learning, Teaching Methods
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Jason D. McKibben; Kelly Holler; Christopher Clemons; James Lindner – NACTA Journal, 2023
Teachers of agriculture have used project-based learning as a primary teaching method in agricultural mechanics since the 19th century. These methods teach the information and motivate students to engage the content. Locus of Control (LOC) categorizes the relationship with decision-making and motivation. Internal LOC have a higher level of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Undergraduate Students
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Padraic Casserly; Ademola Dare; Joy Onuh; Williams Baah; Ashley Taylor – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
Amidst the dual challenges of an eight-month university closure from nationwide public university strikes in Nigeria and the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, we needed to innovate the delivery of BME graduate curriculum to ensure graduate students continued to progress in their studies. To ensure BME graduate students were engaging in…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Engineering Education, Video Technology, Lecture Method
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Martín, Carmen; Moreno Segarra, Ignacio; Ibáñez, Miguel A.; Mira, Sara; Fajardo, Carmen; González-Benito, Maria Elena – Education Sciences, 2021
The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of two learning methodologies in a Plant Tissue Culture course of a Biotechnology degree--lecture-based and hybrid project-based learning--in which a project assignment was included. The effectiveness of these two systems was compared based on the students' knowledge…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Lecture Method, Instructional Effectiveness
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Josephson, Anna; DeBoer, Larry; Nelson, Dave; Zissimopoulos, Angelika – Journal of Economic Education, 2019
Contemporary pedagogy encourages instructors to move away from memorization to teaching the ability to "do economics." In such an environment, students are taught to apply knowledge of economic measurement, the economic model, and economic policy to analyze current events and policies. In this article, the authors build on existing…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Introductory Courses, Macroeconomics, Class Activities
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Budner, Drew; Simpson, Brett – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
Students entering into a quantitative analysis course often struggle with connecting theoretical aspects of concepts from lecture to hands-on applications in the laboratory setting. A one-semester quantitative analysis course was redesigned to integrate active learning with a project-based curriculum that incorporated structured review of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Active Learning, Student Projects, Integrated Activities
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Clark, Renee M.; Wang, Mohan; Splain, Zachary A.; Chen, Kevin P. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020
Contribution: A hybrid approach involving reduced lecture content with project-based learning (PBL) was introduced to a standalone course in optics at an engineering school not specialized in this area, with promising results. Background: At most schools, optics is an elective "niche" area involving a single senior course. This presents…
Descriptors: Optics, Light, Lasers, Active Learning
Saputro, Ida Nugroho; Mahfud, Tuatul; Mulyani, Yogiana; Nurtanto, Muhammad – Online Submission, 2020
The study of entrepreneurial learning in schools has been widely reviewed, however, is limited to aspects of the theory. This study aims to find out how to teach entrepreneurship education in culinary schools. This study used a qualitative approach with case studies design. The result revealed that: (1) entrepreneurship education is considered…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Entrepreneurship, Cooking Instruction, Service Occupations
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Van Loon, Anne F. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
Hydrology teaching deals with processes happening outside the classroom, which calls for active-learning methods to complement lectures. In a geography undergraduate course, new teaching methods and assessment were designed, in which students investigated a river of their choice by completing homework tasks and presenting their results on a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Earth Science, Water, Lecture Method
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Gomez-Lanier, Lilia – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
The flipped classroom pedagogy offers opportunities for students by having the majority of class time spent on discussions and group work that enable students to take risks and make mistakes while gaining experience in collaboration and expertise in content. This research study explores students' perceptions of whether student collaboration in a…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, Time Management
Main, Sindy – ProQuest LLC, 2015
As schools continue to become more diverse, it is important to look at science teaching methods that will meet the needs of all students. In this study, 172 students in a middle school in Northwestern Illinois were taught using two methods of teaching science. Half of the students were taught using project-based science (PBS) and the other half of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Lecture Method, Middle School Students
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Pilcher, Spence C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
An upper-division undergraduate polymer chemistry course was developed as a blended/hybrid course. The students met face-to-face once a week for 75 min with all other components being available online. Face-to-face meetings were used for class discussions/problem-based lectures, student presentations, hands-on activities, and examinations. Online…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Blended Learning, Curriculum Design
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Marcketti, Sara B. – History Teacher, 2011
Learner-centered instruction is principally rooted in the constructivist learning theory. It has gained particular traction in education fields and is most often associated with the work of John Dewey. The purpose of the current study was to identify effective, learner-centered strategies in history of dress courses. This practice-driven study was…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Clothing, Learning Strategies, Active Learning
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