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Kim, J. B.; Zhong, Chen; Liu, Hong – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2023
Cybersecurity education is becoming increasingly important in modern society, and hands-on practice is an essential element. Although instructors provide hands-on labs in their cybersecurity courses, traditional lab exercises often fail to effectively motivate students. Hence, many instructors desire to incorporate gamification in hands-on…
Descriptors: Gamification, Information Security, Class Activities, Active Learning
John E. Parsons – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2025
In a series of three video-recorded assignments over a 6-week period, undergraduate music education students (N = 16) enrolled in an instrumental methods course described aloud what they were thinking about as they practiced a three-note melody on a secondary brass instrument. Later, I completed a content analysis of the students' practice…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Attention, Human Body
Lara Grow – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2025
This article describes an in-class exercise that can be used when teaching zoning law to a Real Estate Law or Legal Environment of Business undergraduate course. The exercise requires students to utilize Salt Lake City's zoning code to locate the best site for a restaurant chain given certain locational and operational requirements, and to…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Undergraduate Students, Zoning, Real Estate
Berik, Günseli; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
An undergraduate course in development economics presents an ideal opportunity to introduce students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. The authors of this article argue that a systematic integration of gender into development economics courses based on standard textbooks is feasible and desirable. They provide a…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Teaching Methods, Gender Differences, Economic Development
Walls, Jill K. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
In this paper we provide two concrete examples of class assignments, developed by the authors, which challenge students to think more critically about themselves, their cultural values and beliefs, and the "invisible forces" that shape their perspectives. We include samples from students' work and our reflections to demonstrate the types…
Descriptors: Assignments, Cultural Awareness, Diversity, Undergraduate Students
Violanti, Michelle T. – Communication Teacher, 2021
When we spend the first class period focusing on the syllabus and letting students leave early, we miss an opportunity to expose them to the course content. What happens to those who drop that day? By spending the first day illustrating expectancy violations theory, both instructors and students can explicate anticipated behaviors and use them to…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Content, Expectation, Classroom Communication
Batra, Madan M.; Klein, Andreas – Journal of Education for Business, 2021
We conducted a survey of about ten different pedagogical tools with students of seven different small undergraduate business classes with average class size of 27 students. We propose that the higher the students' agreement with specific pedagogical methods the higher their motivation as well as their learning outcomes. A statistical significance…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students, Small Classes, Teaching Methods
Whalen, D. Joel; Drehmer, Charles – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2023
This article presents a curated collection of 10 teaching innovations debued at the Association for Business Communication's 87th annual meeting held in Tampa, Florida, USA, and online October 2022. This "My Favorite Assignment" 27th edition introduces readers to classroom-ready ideas to help students gain personal and professional…
Descriptors: Assignments, Instructional Innovation, Business Administration Education, Anxiety
Rapke, Tina; Hall, Jennifer; Marynowski, Richelle – PRIMUS, 2021
We describe a method that instructors can use to grade tests and assignments that can be used in follow-up inquiry-based activities in class to review material. The grading process is essentially a sorting of student assignment/test responses based on the instructor's conception of what makes responses acceptable. The instructor can assign a grade…
Descriptors: Grading, Assignments, Tests, Inquiry
Law, Kristi L.; Rowe, Jeannine M. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2019
Self-awareness is important in social work education because it promotes knowledge, skill, and value development. However, little is written about the ways in which educators facilitate this process. A project was undertaken to design a new self-awareness assignment (SAA) and examine its value. The SAA's development, which relies on role-plays, is…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Undergraduate Students, Class Activities, Reflection
Hrebik, John Ryan – CEA Forum, 2019
In this article, the author discusses composition studies by examining how incorporating "songwriting" into a first-year writing course enables students to begin expressing their own ideas/perspectives, while also developing the ability to create the concise, detailed texts associated with academic writing. The discussion offers a…
Descriptors: Singing, Musical Composition, Writing Instruction, Introductory Courses
Brandon, Esther – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
This article describes a 6-week module course called Just Google It! that the author developed and teaches each fall semester. Students who take the course explore personal data collection by private companies, search algorithms, identify implicit bias in the results, and learn the best recommended privacy and security practices. At the end of the…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Course Descriptions, Data Collection, Corporations
Callahan, Cory – Social Studies, 2022
Here the author shares his attempt to add, without financial cost, substantive and dynamic international experiences to the secondary social studies teacher education program he facilitates. He provides thick descriptions of (1) the overarching goals of a collaborative, online, international learning project, (2) the curriculum materials he helped…
Descriptors: International Education, Video Technology, Social Studies, Secondary School Teachers
Jamieson, Lynn M.; Saunders, Mark V. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2020
The goal of most researchers is to establish competence in one's profession; however, the degree to which this is measured in a research course is undetermined. The assessment of research competency usually involves the distinct measures of statistical ability, writing ability, and other skills that are quantifiable. Soft skills in research, on…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Soft Skills, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Abu-Zahra, Majdi J.; Shayeb, Ahmad Sh. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
This research tries to investigate the importance of mobile translation apps when carrying out translation activities in the classroom. Specifically, this is a semester-long study which attempts to see how beneficial it is to allow translation students enrolled in the translation program at the Department of Languages and Translation at Birzeit…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Class Activities