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Lee, Sabrina Chia Jung – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2019
Taiwan's university-level vocational education is faced with a growing need to strengthen students' soft skills as a means to increase job market eligibility. Students in Taiwan are usually not equipped with group learning skills in junior and senior high school education. These learning skills, however, are an essential component of a successful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Problem Based Learning, Job Skills
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Grynova, Maryna; Khimchuk, Liliana; Shymczyk, Katarzyna – Advanced Education, 2020
The purpose of the article is to substantiate educational strategies of collaboration, research and mentoring skills development in preservice teachers facilitating older adults' learning of ICT with the use of problem-based practice-oriented adult learning activities. The study involved students of Ukrainian and Polish universities who were in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Information Technology, Technology Education
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Nørgaard, Bente – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
The development of employees' skills and competences has become a key driver of economic growth in the developed world. It is widely recognised that enhancing people's skills and competences will be a major cause of future competitive advantage. Consequently, companies need to be able to identify precise areas where they have, or can build,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Engineering Education, Corporations, Models
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Roessger, Kevin M. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2016
Despite the prevalence of adult skills-based learning, adult education researchers continue to ignore effective interdisciplinary skills-based methods. Prominent researchers dismiss empirically supported teaching guidelines, preferring situational, emancipatory methods with no demonstrable effect on skilled performance or reproducible expertise.…
Descriptors: Expertise, Skill Development, Adult Learning, Training
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Roberts, Lindsay – College & Research Libraries, 2017
How can we better engage adult learners during information literacy sessions? How do we increase students' perception of the relevance and importance of information literacy skills for academic work and life in the real world? To explore these questions, the ARCS Model of Motivational Design and Problem-Based Learning were used to develop…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Online Searching, Search Strategies, Information Skills
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Peters, Robert A. – Teaching Public Administration, 2015
Focus groups were convened in 2005 and 2013 as the first step in successive MPA curriculum review and revision processes. Although the criteria for selecting participants and the questions posed to the groups were similar, the focus groups generated dramatically different perspectives regarding the challenges confronting administrators. An…
Descriptors: Public Administration Education, Masters Programs, Curriculum Evaluation, Focus Groups
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Dimitris Alimisis; Emmanouil Zoulias – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this research is the development of a problem-based curriculum for robotic surgical training and its evaluation. Design/methodology/approach: First, the aim and objectives of the curriculum are defined and the background learning theories that guide our work are introduced. The methodology for designing the simulator-based…
Descriptors: Robotics, Surgery, Training, Skill Development
Romero, Liz; Orzechowski, Agnes; Rahatka, Ola – Educational Technology, 2014
The availability of technological tools is promoting a shift toward more student-centered online instruction. This article describes the implementation of a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) model and the technological tools used to meet the expectations of the model as well as the needs of the students. The end product is a hybrid course with eight…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Skill Development
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Bell, Stephanie – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2010
Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an innovative approach to learning that teaches a multitude of strategies critical for success in the twenty-first century. Students drive their own learning through inquiry, as well as work collaboratively to research and create projects that reflect their knowledge. From gleaning new, viable technology skills, to…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Problem Solving, Problem Based Learning
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Vogel-Walcutt, J. J.; Gebrim, J. B.; Bowers, C.; Carper, T. M.; Nicholson, D. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
Computer-assisted learning, in the form of simulation-based training, is heavily focused upon by the military. Because computer-based learning offers highly portable, reusable, and cost-efficient training options, the military has dedicated significant resources to the investigation of instructional strategies that improve learning efficiency…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
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Tsai, Chia-Wen; Lee, Tsang-Hsiung – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2012
Vocational education in Taiwan is highly competitive in that it must attract sufficient student enrollment in the environment with a rapidly increasing number of schools. Many students in this context tend to have lower levels of academic achievement, and do not adequately get involved in their schoolwork. Under such constraints but moving toward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Blended Learning, Problem Based Learning
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Badurdeen, Fazleena; Marksberry, Philip; Hall, Arlie; Gregory, Bob – Simulation & Gaming, 2010
Problem-based learning focuses on small groups using authentic problems as a means to help participants obtain knowledge and problem-solving skills. This approach makes problem-based learning ideal for teaching lean manufacturing, which is driven by a culture of problem solving that values learning as one key output of manufacturing production.…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Literature Reviews
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education