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Tyler B. Becker; Vanessa N. Cardino; James Lucas; Jenifer I. Fenton – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Critical thinking is a common and important learning outcome in college curricula. Case-based and problem-based learning can be used to assess and foster critical thinking skills. HNF 250--Contemporary Issues in Human Nutrition is a critical thinking course developed during the redesign of a nutritional sciences major program. Course assignments…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Nutrition, Problem Based Learning, Course Content
Marcus D. Sherman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The education of bioinformatics, as an interdisciplinary science, can be negatively impacted by (1) incoming students attempting to negotiate complex concepts while lacking the educational scaffolding of the field's constituent disciplines while (2) taking breadth-first course requirements from (3) educators who may be lacking formal pedagogical…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Biology, Instructional Materials, Computer Software
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2021
In the discourse that swirled in the mid-1800s around the creation of new American public universities, three major and interrelated tensions became evident: the first related to the continued debate regarding the proper curricular balance between practical education and classical studies; the second focused on the appropriate autonomy of…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational History, College Curriculum, Role of Education