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Nazanin Adhami; Mahboubeh Taghizadeh – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
The objective of this study was twofold: (a) to determine the extent to which three types of instruction could improve writing performance of railway engineering students and (b) to explore students' perceptions of flipped classroom, Edmodo, and Google Docs for improving their academic writing performance. The participants were 61 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transportation, Engineering Education, Writing Instruction
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Affolderbach, Julia – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
The urgency of the current climate crisis emphasizes the need for university graduates equipped with relevant knowledge and skills to tackle environmental and social problems such as material consumption, environmental degradation and inequality at all spatial scales. Geographic and spatially sensitive concepts and approaches to sustainability and…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education, Sustainability, Climate
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Frandsen, Martin Severin; Andersen, John – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2019
This article presents experiences and reflections from two cases of problem-oriented project work working with action research in bottom-up urban planning and sustainable transition in Copenhagen. The first case concerns the involvement of local residents in the redesign of a public square through a series of aesthetic experiments. The second case…
Descriptors: Action Research, Student Projects, Sustainability, Ethics
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Pratiwi, Damar Isti; Ubaedillah, U.; Puspitasari, Armyta; Arifianto, Teguh – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
Since the teaching-learning process must go online, it is assumed that conducting a flipped classroom could promote students' active learning. Thus, this classroom-based research attempts to investigate the implementation of the flipped model in an online speaking class. It examines students' learning outcomes on speaking skills after studying in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Flipped Classroom, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Kaewunruen, Sakdirat – Education Sciences, 2019
Interactive learning technology is an emerging innovation for future communication-aided teaching and learning that could positively enhance students' engagement and intrinsic motivation. Due to the virtue of interactive communication, classrooms are now anticipated to enable a variety of interaction-based learning technologies with diverse…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Case Studies, Transportation, Educational Technology
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Fini, Elham H.; Awadallah, Faisal; Parast, Mahour M.; Abu-Lebdeh, Taher – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
This paper describes an intervention to enhance students' learning by involving students in brainstorming activities about sustainability concepts and their implications in transportation engineering. The paper discusses the process of incorporating the intervention into a transportation course, as well as the impact of this intervention on…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Intervention, Academic Achievement
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Hendry, Adam; Hays, Gavin; Challinor, Kurt; Lynch, Daniel – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2017
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the introduction, implementation, evolution, hybridization, and initial research into the constructivist instructional models deployed within a secondary (high) school in Australia. A concomitant aim is to relate some of the consequences of whole school pedagogical change, which have included the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Ahern, A. A. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2010
This paper describes two case studies where problem-based learning (PBL) has been introduced to undergraduate civil engineering students in University College Dublin. PBL has recently been put in place in the penultimate and final year transport engineering classes in the civil engineering degree in University College Dublin. In this case study,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Civil Engineering, Case Studies, Teaching Methods
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Lin, Shui-Chun; Tsai, Ching-Chih – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
Control systems education often needs to design interesting hands-on exercises that keep students interested in the control theory presented in lectures. These exercises include system modeling, system analyses, controller syntheses, implementation, experimentation, and performance evaluation of a control system. This paper presents an interesting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Experiential Learning, Theory Practice Relationship
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Morris, Ronald V. – Social Studies, 2003
Children in two first-grade classes and their teachers decided to take an imaginary trip to Washington D.C. For three weeks, the first graders spent their afternoons on the project, and their simulated flight was the culminating activity of a unit on Washington, D.C. In this article, the author discusses several details of the activity,…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Transportation, Teaching Methods, Role Playing
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Floerchinger, Josie – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2005
This article discusses a project about lunch undertaken by a class of 3- to 5-year-old children in a preschool in Iowa. Following a description of the school and the goals of the project, the article presents the three phases of the project. The teacher's reflections about the project are also included. Photographs taken to document the project…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Student Projects
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education