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Preparing Career-Ready Students by Building Effective Virtual Teamwork Skills
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Sihui Ma; Amy Leman – NACTA Journal, 2023
As the food industry becomes globally connected, it is essential to provide Food Science students with experience working in virtual teams before they enter the workforce. Working in teams virtually brings extra challenges due to a lack of face-to-face interactions. FSHN 230, Professional Issues in Food Science (asynchronously online), allowed…
Descriptors: Food, Science Education, Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses
The Use of Role-Play in the Learning of Medical Terminology for Online and Face-to-Face Courses
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Brenda L. M. del Moral; Cinnamon L. VanPutte; Barbara A. McCracken – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Student engagement while learning a new, unfamiliar vocabulary is challenging in health science courses. A group role-play activity was created to teach students medical terminology and learn why its correct usage is important. This activity brought engagement and relevance to a topic traditionally taught through lecture and rote memorization and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, In Person Learning, Role Playing, Medicine
Effective Teamwork: Perceptions of School District Administrators
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Dail, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore how perceptions of team strengths and weaknesses present in school district leadership teams, as conceptualized by Patrick Lencioni: a team's ability to 1) trust, 2) commit, 3) handle conflict, 4) be accountable, and 5) be attentive to results. Additionally, this study sought to identify…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Teamwork, Group Dynamics, Leadership Qualities
Building Capacity for Community-Engaged Scholarship: Evaluation of the Faculty Development Component of the Faculty for the Engaged Campus Initiative
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Gelmon, Sherril; Blanchard, Lynn; Ryan, Katharine; Seifer, Sarena D. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2012
This article reports the findings of an evaluation of the faculty development component of the Faculty for the Engaged Campus initiative. For this component, the Community-Engaged Scholarship Faculty Development Charrette was attended by 20 university teams from across the United States, and six teams subsequently received 2 years of funding and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Faculty Development, Creative Thinking, Design
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
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Page, Scott E. – Princeton University Press, 2008
In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. "The Difference" is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions…
Descriptors: Democracy, Expertise, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism
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Redmann, Donna, Ed. – Louisiana Business Education Journal, 1994
This annual journal contains nine articles dealing with business education in Louisiana and elsewhere. The articles "Word Processing Competencies: Which Ones Are Really Necessary?" (Patricia Lynn Anderson, Mary Alice Griffin) and "English Basics Were Developed in Shorthand--Why Not in Keyboarding?" (Clora Mae Baker, Marcia A.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Business Communication, Business Education, Business Skills