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Download full textAlomar, Majd – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
This paper explores the dynamics of teamwork in a team-based Massive Open Online Course. The purpose of the study is to discover patterns and characteristics of the students in teams that completed the course. Many studies have revealed that a very small percentage of students complete Massive Open Online Courses. The percentage is even smaller in…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Online Courses, Student Characteristics, Peer Evaluation
Hsu, Chia-ling – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This study adopts the Problem Based Learning (PBL) for pre-service teachers in teacher education program. The reasons to adopt PBL are the class scale is not a small class, the contents are too many to teach, and the technologies are ready to be used in classroom. This study used an intermediary, movie, for scenario to student to define the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Instructional Design, Preservice Teachers
Guerra, Cecília; Moreira, António; Vieira, Rui Marques – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2012
One of the challenges higher education institutions face is to effectively endow science primary teachers with competences on "how", "where", "when" and "whether" to use technological resources (software and hardware) in teaching contexts. Teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) requires…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Teacher Competencies, Science Teachers, Teacher Education
Bjorck, Ulric – 2001
Students' use of distributed Problem-Based Learning (dPBL) in university courses in social economy was studied. A sociocultural framework was used to analyze the actions of students focusing on their mastery of dPBL. The main data material consisted of messages written in an asynchronous conferencing system by 50 Swedish college students in 2…
Descriptors: College Students, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Van Berkel, Henk J. M.; Schmidt, Henk G. – 2001
The role lectures play in problem-based learning was studied. The hypothesis was that lecture quality would have a positive influence on the time students would spend in study, that it would increase intrinsic interest in subject matter and would have a positive influence on achievement. Lecture quality would add to the other factors that play a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Lecture Method, Problem Based Learning
Majewski, Stanislaw; Mayo, Roger; Mokrosz, Andrzej; Gorski, Marcin – 2000
Since the early nineties the Civil Engineering Faculty of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland has been involved in three Tempus projects, aimed at modernizing the Faculty educational system and its adjustment to European Union standards. The first and second projects were directed at creating new specialties: City Regeneration…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Industrial Training
Wilson, Stanley H.; Gallagher, Jo D.; Elbaum, Leonard; Smith, Douglas H. – 2001
This study examined the perspectives of three graduates of a problem-based learning (PBL) physical therapy (PT) program about their clinical practice. Researchers used qualitative methods of observation, interview, and journaling to gather the data. Three sessions of audiotaped interviews and two observation sessions were conducted with the three…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Graduates, Higher Education, Interviews
Rose, Linda P. – 2001
This paper reports the results of a 5-month study of 4, self-selected Problem-Based Learning (PBL) teams taking a leadership capacity-building course in the Educational Leadership Program in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Twenty-six students in the course were divided into five teams of five to eight members…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Leadership Training
van Berkel, Henk J. M.; van Til, Cita T. – 1998
In a problem-based curriculum, emphasis is placed on the groups in which students learn to analyze problems and to contribute to the solution of a problem. This paper describes an instrument that aims to measure individual group performing and presents some psychometric results. Reliability and validity were studied with 240 students in groups of…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Curriculum, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Shapiro, Elayne J. – 2002
This study reports on a pilot study of a public speaking class in which problem-based learning and service-learning were combined in a freshman engagement course. The paper describes how the two elements were combined and provides assessments that used the University of California-Berkeley Service-Learning Attitudinal Survey, narrative responses…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Introductory Courses
van Berkel, Henk J. M.; Schmidt, Henk G. – 1999
Problem-based learning is an approach to professional education that stresses the use of real life problems in education. This paper focuses attention to the commitment of students to engage in the problem-based learning process. Subjects, approximately 1,300 undergraduates in a health sciences curriculum, completed a questionnaire covering…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Health Services, Higher Education
Goodnough, Karen – 2003
This study examined issues that arose during the development and implementation of a modified form of traditional problem based learning (PBL) at one Canadian university. It explored PBL in the context of preservice education, investigating how it could be used to foster an inquiry based approach to preservice preparation and how preservice…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inquiry
McDonald, James T. – 2002
Teaching methodologies, such as Problem Based Learning (PBL), have arisen in response to educational research that has found evidence that even though lecturing may be the most prevalent teaching tool it is arguably the least effective way to facilitate student learning. It is important then, for methods instructors to give preservice teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Higher Education, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education
Copland, Michael Aaron – 2000
The ability to understand and frame problems encountered in practice is a critical skill for school leaders. This paper reports on a study that inquired about the teaching and learning of problem-framing skills in the Prospective Principals Program at Stanford University, a preparation program for school administrators that relies on problem-based…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Heuristics, Higher Education
Siegel, Marcelle A.; Lee, Julia A. C. – 2001
While increasing teachers' scientific knowledge base has been identified as a challenge for teacher education (e.g., NCES, 1996), the skills used to identify a need for knowledge and the skills necessary to search for that knowledge have been less discussed. Yet, the ability to learn for oneself is really the goal of lifelong teacher education. In…
Descriptors: Electricity, Higher Education, Physics, Preservice Teacher Education
