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Direct linkArchie Holmes, Editor; Kerry Brenner, Editor; Janet Gao, Editor; Committee on Equitable and Effective Teaching in Undergraduate STEM Education: A Framework for Institutions Educators and Disciplines, Contributor; Board on Science Education, Contributor; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2025
Society will not fully benefit from development and use of future discoveries and innovations if we do not provide full access and opportunity to engage in effective STEM education -- and we may lack the information, tools, and resources needed to address future challenges facing our planet. Commonly used methods of teaching undergraduate STEM…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Teaching Methods, STEM Careers
Chemosit, Caroline; Rugutt, John; Rugutt, Joseph K. – IGI Global, 2017
Keeping students engaged and receptive to learning can, at times, be a challenge. However, by the implementation of new methods and pedagogies, instructors can strengthen the drive to learn among their students. "Fostering Sustained Learning Among Undergraduate Students: Emerging Research and Opportunities" is an essential publication…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, Educational Policy
Download full textWatson, Lucy – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The 'Global Student Collective' is a telecollaboration project on the International Foundation Year (IFY) programme at the University of Southampton. IFY students were connected with volunteers in Brazil, India, Hungary, and Italy online in order to find out more about their countries. The project required the students to exercise multiple…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning
Peer reviewedNoss, Richard – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1999
Starts from the premise that simultaneous study of design and learning together may throw light on epistemological and psychological issues in learning mathematics. Studies undergraduate science students who take mathematics classes and reveals a complex relationship between design and learning with implications for the design of instructional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedUnwin, David – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1980
Suggests methods for teaching research skills at the university level. A variety of ways exist to add creativity and student centered activities to the curriculum. Students may have choices in their input data or in defining the problem then using a constrained method of analysis. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Skills, Student Projects, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedBrennan, Moya; Miller, Janet Woodbury – English Language Teaching Journal, 1982
Discusses step-by-step approach for teachers to make their own videotapes including planning the format of the program, organizing the students, how to teach with it, exercises to accompany it, and follow-up activities. Illustrates procedure with examples from language teaching videotape made with university students in China. (Author/BK)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
Mains, Susan P. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2004
Undergraduate geography courses provide a significant entry way into representing and challenging dominant images of places and identities. Teaching geography in the Caribbean raises significant issues in terms of providing materials that explore representations of places and topics that are grounded in the region, while also moving beyond…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction
LePeau, Lucy – College Student Affairs Journal, 2007
This article describes a student affairs practitioner's experience with co-instructing a course entitled, "Queer(y)ing Religion and Spirituality". The ways practitioners can facilitate difficult dialogues with students about the intersection of spirituality and GLBT issues are explored.
Descriptors: Religion, Homosexuality, Religious Factors, Student Personnel Workers
Peer reviewedStauffenberg, Henry J. – English Quarterly, 1980
Techniques for teaching letter writing in a composition class are given, using actual employment ads for which letters of application are written. (HTH)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Higher Education, Job Application, Secondary Education
Gregory, Donald D.; Claunch, Ronald G. – Teaching Political Science, 1981
Describes how faculty-produced 35 mm slides can be used to enhance student interest in political science in undergraduate college level courses. Emphasis is placed on copying existing photos and on fieldwork where political events are photographed. Information is presented on copyright law, photographic equipment, and slide program technique.…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Photography
Adkins, Gary A. – 1983
To aid undergraduate students in their initial study of Piaget's theory of intellectual development, students enrolled in a sophomore child development course administered selected tasks to individual subjects in order to verify or disprove results predicted in the theory. Prior to replicating the Piagetian experiments, students were introduced to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Conservation (Concept), Experiential Learning, Guidelines
Peer reviewedOlzak, Susan – Teaching Sociology, 1981
Assesses the discipline of sociology with regard to student needs, student objectives, vocational v career emphases, research needs, and possible instructional improvements. Suggests that instructors of sociology courses for college undergraduates should concentrate on changing employment demands and students' job market needs. Ways of directing…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Higher Education
Cahalan, James M., Ed.; Downing, David B., Ed. – 1991
Connecting the separate worlds of literary theorists and literature teachers in higher education, this collection of essays by 20 college teachers shares their ideas about using theorists' concepts to turn undergraduates from passive receivers of information into active thinkers about meaning in literature. Following an introduction by James M.…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Feminism, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Peer reviewedCollett, John – Modern Language Journal, 1982
Describes use of computer aided instruction and designing of computer programs to teach verb tenses to students of French at the University of Waikato. Basic limitation of present program is lack of variety in sentences it produces. (BK)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Foreign Countries, French, Higher Education
Zeidler, Dana Lewis; McIntosh, William J. – 1989
Contemporary researchers often refer to the information processing paradigm to exlain the relative ineffectiveness of contemporary instructional techniques for modifying incorrect scientific concepts that students often bring to a learning situation. As a result of this research, instructional procedures have been developed that maximize the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Science, Interactive Video, Misconceptions
