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Hu, Yuqi; Li, Chunli – Journal of Chemical Education, 2020
Relying on the National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory and National Chemical Design Competition for college students, a multidimensional education mode presented here combines the advantages of problem-based learning (PBL) and "Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate" (CDIO) approaches, while also overcoming the restrictions of PBL and…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Chemical Engineering
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Overton, Tina L.; Bradley, John S. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2010
In this paper we describe the development and evaluation of two activities for delivery in first year B.Sc. and M.Chem. degree courses, in which we introduced an international context representing either a linguistic or a cultural modification to the previously developed case studies. The case studies focus on an industrial and an environmental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Chemistry, Foreign Countries
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Chang, Pei-Fen; Wang, Dau-Chung – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
In May 2008, the worst earthquake in more than three decades struck southwest China, killing more than 80,000 people. The complexity of this earthquake makes it an ideal case study to clarify the intertwined issues of ethics in engineering and to help cultivate critical thinking skills. This paper first explores the need to encourage engineering…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Cultural Education, Problem Based Learning, Engineering
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Chen, Qin; Li, Hang; Zeng, Fancai; Zeng, Xiaorong; Zheng, Lige; Li, Xiang – International Education Studies, 2009
The instructional pattern of Problem-based Learning, which requires teachers to be "organizers, guides and cooperators" of their students' learning, is now becoming a trend in the development of medical education around the world. In order to be competent in all the above mentioned roles, teachers need to be equipped with corresponding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Schools, Higher Education, Problem Based Learning
Feng, Daming – Online Submission, 2005
In designing and implementing the pilot program of serving principal training, the author of this paper learned the experience from what E. Bridges and P. Hallinger did but didn't imitate fully, rather, created several new strategies because Chinese principals faced different situation from their American counterparts. The pilot program introduced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Local Government, Teaching Methods, Educational Policy