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Gelot, Ludwig – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
Scholars have developed original pedagogical approaches to impart the knowledge and skills required for professional life in the area of peace and development. Experience-based learning, simulations, games, and role-plays have been used with positive results. Yet most efforts tend to overly simplify and narrow down the learning experience in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peace, Experiential Learning, Simulation
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Saloranta, Tiina; Lo¨nnqvist, Jan-Erik; Eklund, Patrik C. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
In our upper-level undergraduate laboratory course in organic chemistry we focus on a research-oriented task in a context-based and problem-based learning approach. The course starts with a preliminary training period where the students learn how to safely and independently perform synthesis and purification procedures and to operate the most…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, College Science, Undergraduate Study, Student Research
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Ratinen, Ilkka; Keinonen, Tuula – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2011
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are adequate for analyzing complex scientific and spatial phenomena in geography education. "Google Earth" is a geographic information tool for GIS-based learning. It allows students to engage in the lesson, explore the Earth, explain what they identify and evaluate the implications of what they are…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Geography Instruction, Problem Based Learning, Geology
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Lappalainen, P. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2010
The changes facing industries are necessitating a concomitant change in university curriculum. Before instigating a reform, however, education providers need to acquire an understanding of the most pertinent development needs essential for filling industrial competence gaps. The Language Centre at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Problem Based Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Zenger, K. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
The principles, difficulties and challenges in control education are discussed and compared to the similar problems in the teaching of mathematics and systems science in general. The difficulties of today's students to appreciate the classical teaching of engineering disciplines, which are based on rigorous and scientifically sound grounds, are…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Teaching Methods, Systems Approach
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Virjo, Irma; Holmberg-Marttila, Doris; Mattila, Kari – Medical Teacher, 2001
Describes task-based learning (TBL), a study module for fourth-year medical students (n=85), and experiences with implementing it at the University of Tampere in Finland. Indicates that this method works and that it leads to learning. Students evaluate their skills connected with a general practitioner's work in health center hospitals as better…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Medical Education, Problem Based Learning
Helokunnas, Tuija; Herrala, Juha – Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2001
Describes searching and sharing of knowledge on virtual networks, based on experiences gained when hosting virtual knowledge networks at Tampere University of Technology in Finland. Discusses information and knowledge management studies; role of information technology in knowledge searching and sharing; implementation and experiences of the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Networks