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Chantal Viscogliosi; Carmen Moliner; Véronique Foley; Benoit Côté; Janet O’Flynn; Carol Valois – Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
The cultural challenge of educating Haitian rehabilitation professionals was identified by a Canadian francophone university which collaborated in the implementation and organization of international internships. Ethical cross-border internationalization should ensure reciprocity for partners. With this as a central value and in a context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, Occupational Therapy
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Inada, Yuko – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) globally accelerated distance learning. Students who wish to create new businesses pursue collaborative learning in a cross-cultural environment. However, the research on the effect of collaborative learning on such courses is scant. This study investigated the changes in students' entrepreneurial competencies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Cooperative Learning, Online Courses
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Carroll, Heather; Chandrashekhar, Shwetha; Huang, Danny; Kim, David; Liu, Peter – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2015
In light of the enormous changes unfolding in the higher education landscape, we don't have to look too far to recognize evidence of the transformation and redefinition of the construct of both teaching and learning in the information age. With a growing focus on teaching and learning at all levels of post-secondary institutions, innovation is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Educational Change, Technology Uses in Education
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Shi, Yongchao; Frederiksen, Carl H.; Muis, Krista R. – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Self-regulated learning (SRL) actions of 30 Canadian and 30 Chinese university students were studied in a face-to-face problem-based learning environment. Participants were randomly assigned to work in dyads consisting of Chinese, Canadian, or mixed Chinese-Canadian pairs to learn Analysis of Variance collaboratively using a computer coach. Dialog…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Independent Study, Computer Uses in Education
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Kapralos, Bill; Fisher, Stephanie; Clarkson, Jessica; van Oostveen, Roland – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel undergraduate course on serious game design and development that integrates both game and instructional design, thus providing an effective approach to teaching serious game design and development. Very little effort has been dedicated to the teaching of proper serious game design and…
Descriptors: Design, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Video Technology
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Bédard, Denis; Lison, Christelle; Dalle, Daniel; Côté, Daniel; Boutin, Noël – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2012
This paper presents results of a study conducted with undergraduate students involved in either problem- or project-based curricula (Medicine and Engineering, respectively) at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. The objective of the present research was to measure the impact of these innovative curricula on students' engagement and persistence…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Student Projects, Engineering Education, Medical Education
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Willows, Noreen D.; Strawson-Fawcett, Cynthia; Downs, Shauna M. – Journal of Food Science Education, 2008
Problem-based learning (PBL) can provide an enhanced appreciation of the relationship between culture and food for students who aspire to become dietitians or nutrition educators; however, large university classes often inhibit the use of PBL. A professor who specializes in research documenting the relationships among food and culture took 17…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Foods Instruction, Dietetics, Nutrition
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Morton, Mavis – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2009
This paper will highlight an innovate practice in teaching and learning by reflecting on two fourth-year sociology seminar classes that participated in a community-based learning project at York University. Fifty students collaborated in three to six person teams to work on a problem/issue identified by one of five not-for-profit organizations who…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Service Learning, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
Murray, Jacqueline; Summerlee, Alastair – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2007
Canadian universities are struggling to address seemingly contradictory challenges pertaining to undergraduate education: high demand and underfunding. A number of instruments, including the National Survey of Student Engagement (National Survey of Student Engagement, n.d.), have led to greater priority being placed on the undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Spasov, Peter – College Quarterly, 2004
Applied Projects is a program where every technology student engages in an intensive team project full time during the final academic semester. A wide range of enterprises provide the real-world problems that form the basis of student projects. This article describes the program and how Fleming College uses this program for applied research. To…
Descriptors: Technical Support, Student Projects, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning
Bedard, Denis; And Others – 1996
A 2-year study at the University of Sherbrooke (Quebec) investigated the changes in six medical students' clinical reasoning processes as they participated in a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum. In each year, students performed a think-aloud protocol with two medical case problems to solve, one in cardiology and one in urology. In the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cardiology, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Baptista Nunes, Miguel, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Lisbon, Portugal July 15-19, 2014). The e-Learning 2014 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education