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Dowdall, Shane; Hlobaz, Artur; Milczarski, Piotr; O'Reilly, Derek; Podlaski, Krzysztof; Stawska, Zofia – Informatics in Education, 2021
The development of communication and other soft skills among computer science students is not usually an easy task. Often, curricula focus on technical skills, with team projects being used for the improvement of communication skills. However, these teams usually comprise solely of computer science students. In this paper, we present a didactical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Soft Skills, Skill Development
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Collard, A.; Brédart, S.; Bourguignon, J.-P. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Since 2000, the faculty of Medicine at the University of Liège has integrated problem-based learning (PBL) seminars from year two to seven in its seven-year curriculum. The PBL approach has been developed to facilitate students' acquisition of reasoning capacity. This contextualized learning raises the question of the de- and re-contextualization…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Problem Based Learning, Transfer of Training, Medical Students
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De Witte, Kristof; Rogge, Nicky – Education Economics, 2016
The effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) in terms of increasing students' educational attainments has been extensively studied for higher education students and in nonexperimental settings. This paper tests the effectiveness of PBL as an alternative instruction method in secondary education. In a controlled experiment at the class level,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Secondary Education, Educational Attainment, Teaching Methods
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Mélard, François; Denayer, Dorothée; Semal, Nathalie – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2015
This article examines a 15 year-old master level seminar dedicated to the exploration of local and complex environmental issues marked by scientific or technological uncertainties. Following a pragmatic learning approach, we focus our discussion on a triadic relationship between supervisors, students and various concerned publics. A local flood…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Supervisors, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries
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Nonclercq, A.; Biest, A. V.; De Cuyper, K.; Leroy, E.; Martinez, D. L.; Robert, F. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
As part of an instrumentation course, a problem-based learning framework was selected for laboratory instruction. Two acquisition chains were designed to help students carry out realistic instrumentation problems. The first tool is a virtual (simulated) modular acquisition chain that allows rapid overall understanding of the main problems in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instrumentation, Laboratories, Science Instruction
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Zhu, Chang; Valcke, Martin; Schellens, Tammy; Li, Yifei – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
This study was set up in a Chinese university in Beijing by implementing a Flemish e-learning course in a Chinese setting. A main feature of the e-learning environment is the asynchronous "task-based" online group discussion. The purpose of the study is to understand Chinese students' perceptions of a collaborative e-learning environment…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Group Discussion, Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning