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Hunsaker, Enoch; West, Richard E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
This design case documents the creation of open educational resources for preservice and inservice teachers at Brigham Young University (BYU). The purpose of this interdisciplinary project was to design and develop training, assessments and credentials to help the learners become competent in teaching computational thinking (CT) and coding in…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Coding, Computation, Thinking Skills
West, Richard E. – Educational Technology, 2016
This article describes initial success in developing an interdisciplinary studio for teaching collaborative creativity and design, with faculty from multiple departments co-teaching and co-mentoring interdisciplinary student groups engaged in social innovation. The rationale for developing this studio has been to prepare students for the kind of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Creativity, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teacher Collaboration
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Velasquez, Andrea; Graham, Charles R.; West, Richard E. – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
The ethic of care has been an important part of the dialogue related to learning in traditional K-12 learning environments particularly because emotional relationships and caring pedagogies have been shown to be particularly important for adolescent learners. However, as online learning has become increasingly popular, there are concerns about the…
Descriptors: Caring, Educational Practices, High Schools, Teacher Student Relationship
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West, Richard E.; Tateishi, Isaku; Wright, Geoffrey A.; Fonoimoana, Melia – Creativity Research Journal, 2012
Over the years, many training methods for creativity and innovation have been developed. Despite these programs and research, further improvement is necessary, particularly in schools of technology and engineering education, where previous efforts have focused on developing solutions to defined problems, not in identifying and defining the…
Descriptors: Innovation, Undergraduate Students, Training Methods, Creativity