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Clotilde Lechuga-Jimenez; María-Belén Barroso; Enrique Alastor; Juan-Carlos Tójar-Hurtado – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examines the presence of "Effective Communication" (EC) and "Teamwork/Cooperative Learning" (TW&CL) competencies in undergraduate university programmes using a blue entrepreneurship approach, within the framework of a social and sustainable economy. As seen in previous studies, these two competencies are highly…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, Skill Development, Communication Skills
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Lizeth Guadalupe Parra-Pérez; Angel Alberto Valdés-Cuervo; Maricela Urias-Murrieta; Reuben Addo – Cogent Education, 2024
Developing Critical Thinking Skills (CTS) has been a primary educational goal in developed countries for several decades. However, even though Mexico recently embraced this educational trend in higher education, there is uncertainty about CTS development occurring under current conditions. Despite the abundance of quantitative studies examining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Almulla, Mohammed Abdullatif – Cogent Education, 2023
This study looks at whether creativity and critical thinking help students solve problems and improve their grades by mediating the link between 21st century skills (learning motivation, cooperativity, and interaction with peers, engagement with peers, and a smart classroom environment). The mediating relationship between creativity and critical…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking, Creativity, Problem Solving
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Shantanu Tilak; Michael Glassman; Monica Lu; Ziye Wen; Logan Pelfrey; Irina Kuznetcova; Tzu-Jung Lin; Eric M. Anderman; Adriana Martinez Calvit; Kimiko Ching; Manisha Nagpal – Cogent Education, 2023
This qualitative study presents 27 students' insights about four teachers' implementation of an immersive Native American history curricular unit designed to equip students with digital skills to critically navigate complex, polarizing social issues. The Digital Civic Learning (DCL) curriculum used Google Suite and Google Classroom or Schoology to…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Curriculum Implementation, Technology Uses in Education, Units of Study
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Van Woezik, Tamara; Reuzel, Rob; Koksma, Jur – Cogent Education, 2019
Higher education tries to comply with a societal need for lifelong, self-directed learners, for which suitable learning formats are needed. Here, we consider Open Space Technology (OST) as a format for self-directed learning in medical education. It involves a voluntary meeting in which students explore topics of their own interest, related to the…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Higher Education, Medical Education, Personal Autonomy
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Crogman, Horace; Trebeau Crogman, Maryam – Cogent Education, 2016
The concept of learning styles in education is highly questionable when used to categorize students in particular ways and attempt to match them to corresponding forms of instruction. This paper argues that the various learning modalities called Learning Styles are only cognitive tools that all learners have access to and must use to process…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities, Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods