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"How Am I Supposed to Tell My Mother What Happened in Today's Class?": At the Intersection between Blended Learning and Design (Thinking) Education
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Lehtonen, Miikka J. – Design and Technology Education, 2023
Since the beginning of the 21st century, design education has been gaining momentum across disciplines as a means to equip students with skills relevant in the job market as well as to tackle wicked problems. One of the core assumptions behind integrating design education to other disciplines focuses on the need for hands-on and experiential…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Design, Thinking Skills, Cooperative Learning
Matching International Business Teaching with the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Introducing Bi-Directional Reflective Learning
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Elo, Maria; Torkkeli, Lasse; Velt, Hannes – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2022
Transboundary challenges such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, energy transformation and the Covid-19 pandemic put vast pressures on generating solutions. They also call for updated teaching providing the required capabilities for international business (IB) and -entrepreneurship (IE) students. This paper presents a teaching initiative…
Descriptors: International Trade, Business Administration Education, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
Learning Mechanisms in Multidisciplinary Teamwork with Real Customers and Open-Ended Problems
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Heikkinen, Juho; Isomöttönen, Ville – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Recently, there has been a trend towards adding a multidisciplinary or multicultural element to traditional monodisciplinary project courses in computing and engineering. In this article, we examine the implications of multidisciplinarity for students' learning experiences during a one-semester project course for real customers. We use a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Active Learning, Student Projects
Creativity and Inspiration for Problem Solving in Engineering Education
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Nordstrom, Katrina; Korpelainen, Paivi – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Problem solving is a critical skill for engineering students and essential to development of creativity and innovativeness. Essential to such learning is an ease of communication and allowing students to address the issues at hand via the terminology, attitudes, humor and empathy, which is inherent to their frame of mind as novices, without the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Video Technology, Engineering Education, Creativity
Creativity-Supporting Learning Environment--CSLE
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Apiola, Mikko; Lattu, Matti; Pasanen, Tomi A. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2012
Despite much public discussion about the importance of creativity and innovation-friendly teaching in Finnish higher education, the impact of the general opinion on actual teaching practices has been limited. In the Finnish computer science education the teaching mostly follows a pattern of lectures, fixed exercise sets, and exams. With this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Robotics, College Instruction
Discussions on Some Educational Issues II. Research Report 54.
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Kansanen, Pertti, Ed. – 1987
This international research report consists of five papers discussing five different topics in education. "Views on the Implementation of the Curriculum--Experiences of the Finnish Practice" (P. Kansanen) analyzes research results regarding the national curriculum for the Finnish comprehensive school system and compares them with a…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Course Descriptions, Creative Thinking, Curriculum Development