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Engineers, Figuring It Out: Collaborative Learning in Cultural Worlds
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Susan Bobbitt Nolen; Edward L. Michor; Milo D. Koretsky – Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Background: Although open-ended projects are common in the first and final years of US engineering programs, middle-year courses tend to utilize simpler highly constrained problems. Such problems can elicit knowledge and social practices typical of school activity ("School World"), with limited applicability in real engineering work…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Cooperative Learning, Undergraduate Students, Student Projects
Reflections on Problems of Educational Practice in a Project Course Design for Professional Authenticity, Cultural Relevance, and Sociotechnical Integration
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Stephen Secules – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
This paper examines specific problems of educational practice that I, an undergraduate engineering educator and education researcher, have encountered in creating an interdisciplinary engineering project course. I reveal my process of theorising about problems of practice to position engineering educators' pedagogical theorising as worthy of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Study, Interdisciplinary Approach, Problems
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (13th, Online, July 10-13, 2020)
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Rafferty, Anna N., Ed.; Whitehill, Jacob, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
The 13th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) was originally arranged to take place in Ifrane, Morocco. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) epidemic, EDM 2020, as well as most other academic conferences in 2020, had to be changed to a purely online format. To facilitate efficient transmission of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Information Retrieval, Data Processing
Curriculum & Instruction for All Learners: Blending Systematic and Constructivist Approaches in Inclusive Elementary Schools.
Rainforth, Beverly, Ed.; Kugelmass, Judy W., Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers shows how an integrated approach to classroom teaching can support and advance inclusion in elementary schools. There are 10 papers in three sections. Section 1, "Designing Elementary Education for All," includes: (1) "Searching for a Pedagogy of Success" (Judy W. Kugelmass and Beverly Rainforth); (2)…
Descriptors: Art, Behavior Problems, Constructivism (Learning), Cultural Differences