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Allison, Chris – Liberal Education, 2019
Chris Allison was working as a public relations executive, and had no formal business training when his father phoned and asked him to take over the reins of his Pittsburgh telecom equipment business. His father needed to focus his energies on his other business which was struggling. Because of his Liberal Arts background Allison knew exactly what…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Telecommunications, Administrator Role, Business Administration
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Bhuyan, Jay; Wu, Fan; Thomas, Cassandra; Koong, Kai; Hur, Jung Won; Wang, Chih-hsuan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
This paper describes the design, implementation, and results of an NSF funded Summer Academy from 2016 to 2018, which engaged, on an annual basis, 30 to 60 rising 10th and 11th grade high school science students in an innovative, technology-enriched Project Based Learning (PBL) environment. This Academy emphasized how tech gadgets work and the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 10, Grade 11, High School Students
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Duarte, Abel J.; Malheiro, Benedita; Arnó, Elisabet; Perat, Ignasi; Silva, Manuel F.; Fuentes-Durá, Pedro; Guedes, Pedro; Ferreira, Paulo – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020
Contribution: An analysis of the extent to which sustainability is present in the syllabi, project briefs, report templates, and student final reports of the three Iberian European project semester (EPS) providers, over a five-year period. Background: EPS is a one-semester capstone project framework that adopts project-based learning and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Sustainable Development, Problem Solving, Student Projects
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Cheruvelil, Kendra Spence; De Palma-Dow, Angela; Smith, Karl A. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Biology labs often make use of student teams. However, some students resist working in teams, often based on poor experiences. Although instructors sometimes struggle with student teams, effective teams in biology labs are achievable. We increased student learning and satisfaction when working in research teams by (1) including in the syllabus a…
Descriptors: Student Research, Teamwork, Biology, Science Laboratories
Care, Esther; Vista, Alvin; Kim, Helyn – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2020
This paper marks the second in a series of five reports detailing the work of the Optimizing Assessment for All (OAA) project at Brookings to strengthen education systems capacity to integrate 21st century skills into teaching and learning, using assessment as a lever for changing classroom practices. Twenty-first century skills (21CS) are now…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, 21st Century Skills, Teaching Methods, Student Evaluation
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Bolzani, Daniela; Luppi, Elena – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: While the number of entrepreneurship education programmes offered around the world is on the rise, research into the assessment of entrepreneurship education programmes is still lacking. The purpose of this paper is to take the stance that entrepreneurship education has to focus on a set of transversal competences aimed at teaching…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Program Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Guidelines
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Glover, Rebecca; Hammond, Nicholas B.; Smith, Justin; Guerra, Dalyana – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Peer-led team learning (PLTL), specifically the model known as 'Workshops', has been shown to contribute positively and significantly to student success in STEM courses across subjects (Gosser et al., 2001). Our research adds to the SOTL literature describing the effectiveness of Workshops by reporting on the changes in student leaders. We examine…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Workshops, Student Leadership, Skill Development
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Gruzdev, Mikhail V.; Kuznetsova, Irina V.; Tarkhanova, Irina Yu.; Kazakova, Elena I. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
The relevance of the issues addressed in the article is determined by the importance of organizing the dialogue between education and business to ensure the high quality of training specialists. Soft skills are considered from the standpoint of the unity of requirements for training, evaluation and development of human resources. The main focus is…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Job Skills, College Graduates, Labor Market
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Reed, Kelynne E.; Aiello, David P.; Barton, Lance F.; Gould, Stephanie L.; McCain, Karla S.; Richardson, John M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2016
This article discusses the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Teaching and Research (STAR) Leadership Program, developed at Austin College, which engages students in activities integrated into undergraduate STEM courses that promote the development of leadership behaviors. Students focus on interpersonal communication,…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Integrated Curriculum, Science Curriculum, Undergraduate Study
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Mohottala, H. E. – Physics Teacher, 2016
We report the combined use of Wikispaces (wikis) and collaborative group problem solving (CGPS) sessions conducted in introductory-level calculus-based physics classes. As a part of this new teaching tool, some essay-type problems were posted on the wiki page on a weekly basis and students were encouraged to participate in problem solving without…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Collaborative Writing, Teaching Methods
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Pereira Christopoulos, Tania; Wilner, Adriana; Trindade Bestetti, Maria Luisa – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This study aims to present improvisation training and experimentation as an alternative method to deal with unexpected events in which structured processes do not seem to work. Design/Methodology/Approach: Based on the literature of sensemaking and improvisation, the study designs a framework and process model of experimental learning…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Problem Solving
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Beard, Fred – Journal of Advertising Education, 2016
Most educators who teach the advertising campaigns course require students to work as groups. A review of cooperative learning and group dynamics literature, however, suggests that unless students are systematically prepared for group work instructional goals will be difficult to achieve. This article describes how pre-training activities in group…
Descriptors: Advertising, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics
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Sripradith, Raweewat – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
As a second-year English teacher at Nakhonphanom University, it has become important to put more emphasis on the student's ability to understand and speak the English language. The main objective as a teacher is to help the students learn the English language by utilizing the best methods. Thailand is rapidly becoming part of the global economy…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Routon, P. Wesley; Walker, Jay K. – Education Economics, 2019
College internships are popular and often promoted. Quantifying their impacts is difficult as students often take time away from classes to participate. We implement multiple-treatment propensity score matching to untangle the simultaneous effects of internships and discontinuous college tenure. Using a sample of over 442,000 students from 619 US…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Outcomes of Education, Academic Persistence, Student Satisfaction
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Zhang, Xiaoyan; Ye, Ruifang; Hu, Fengxian; Zheng, Yitao; Gao, Shuhong; Wang, Qiyao; Bai, Yunpeng – American Biology Teacher, 2019
In recent years, accreditation standards for international engineering education have led to a dramatic rise in the use of outcome-based education at universities. In this system, enticing new undergraduate students to science and engineering, although challenging, is the first important step toward building students' career competencies. An…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Undergraduate Students, Acceleration (Education), International Education
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