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The Social Construction of a Teacher Support Team: An Experience of University Lecturers' Professional Development in STEM
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Castro-Félix, Elvia; Daniels, Harry – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2018
This paper focuses on understanding and exploring how a group of university engineering and science tutor educators learn and assimilate new conceptions about their role in the face of the forces of globalisation that are transforming the system of higher education. This research paper adopts the notion of the Teacher Support Team (TST) as…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, STEM Education, Tutors, Teaching Methods
Videogame Construction by Engineering Students for Understanding Modelling Processes: The Case of Simulating Water Behaviour
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Pretelín-Ricárdez, Angel; Sacristán, Ana Isabel – Informatics in Education, 2015
We present some results of an ongoing research project where university engineering students were asked to construct videogames involving the use of physical systems models. The objective is to help them identify and understand the elements and concepts involved in the modelling process. That is, we use game design as a constructionist approach…
Descriptors: Video Games, Engineering Education, College Students, Design
A Study on the Attitudes and Opinions of Engineering Students from the University of Baja California, Mexico, on Science, Technology, and Society
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Oliveros Ruiz, Maria Amparo; Sevilla Garcia, Juan Jose; Schorr, Michael – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2010
A proposal is presented for the incorporation of the concepts of STS into the teaching of science and technology at the Faculty of Engineering, Mexicali Campus, of the University of Baja California. The method outlined for the development of research and the application of the "Opinions Questionnaire on Science, Technology and Society"…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Opinions, Science and Society, Engineering
Cultural Connections: A Model for Eliminating Boundaries and Crossing Borders.
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Cifuentes, Lauren; Murphy, Karen L. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2000
Explains Cultural Connections, a model for implementing constructivist, intercultural distance learning partnerships. Highlights include a theoretical framework; social constructivist pedagogy; intercultural communication; telecommunications; Web pages; and examples of a middle school partnership in Texas, a fourth-grade connection between Texas…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Distance Education, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Learning (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013)
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Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Prague, Czech Republic, July 23-26, 2013). The e-Learning 2013 conference aims to…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education