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Raweewarn Rattanakha; Pinanta Chatwattana; Pallop Piriyasurawong – Higher Education Studies, 2025
This research is intended to study the outcomes of analytical thinking and curiosity derived from the virtual smart classroom using the cooperative problem-based learning; thereby the said virtual smart classroom is a research tool initiated from the integration of the problem-based learning and the cooperative learning coupled with the aid of…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Cooperative Learning, Technology Uses in Education
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Lewis, Stephanie N.; Velez, Anne-Lise K.; Ozkan, Desen S.; Thomas, Raymond C.; Carlson, Kimberly A. – Honors in Practice, 2021
This article describes one program's thoughtful and strategic transition to a college and subsequent innovations to its curricular framework. Acknowledging that such a change affords honors practitioners the opportunity to implement best practices established within the honors community, authors describe the unique evolution of the honors college…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Inquiry
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Yarnall, Louise; Fusco, Judi – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2014
If college science instructors are to use inquiry practices more in the classroom, they need both professional support to foster comfort with the pedagogy and practical ways to engage students in inquiry. Over a semester, we studied 13 community college biology instructors as they adopted bioinformatics problem-based learning (PBL) modules in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students
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Herron, Jean Foster; Major, Claire Howell – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2004
This article comprises the results of a qualitative study designed to examine community college leaders' attitudes toward problem-based learning as a method for teaching leadership. The respondents in the study participated in a year-long community college leadership academy, which used problem-based learning as the primary instructional method.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Leadership, Community Colleges, Problem Based Learning
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Bunch, John M. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2009
This paper presents a goal-based scenario approach to teaching introductory database concepts to undergraduates using two different scaffolding methods. One method, termed "worked-out examples," attempts to reduce extraneous cognitive load by requiring students to complete increasingly complex missing parts of worked out examples. The other…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Undergraduate Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Shen, Pei-Di; Lee, Tsang-Hsiung; Tsai, Chia-Wen – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2007
Contrary to conventional expectations, the reality of computing education in Taiwan's vocational schools is not so practically oriented, and thus reveals much room for improvement. In this context, we conducted a quasi-experiment to examine the effects of applying web-based problem-based learning (PBL), web-based self-regulated learning (SRL), and…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Computer Literacy, Web Based Instruction, Foreign Countries