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Christopher V. H.-H. Chen; Scott Banta – Chemical Engineering Education, 2023
As more chemical engineering students enter careers beyond the field, students need more guidance in applying their problem solving skills to a challenges beyond the plant or refinery. Since Fall 2019, we have implemented case-based learning across our Material and Energy Balances course to help students practice chemical engineering thinking as a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Chemical Engineering, Engineering Education, Problem Solving
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Connolly, Amy; Lampe, Michael – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
This article describes how our university built a unique classroom environment specifically for active learning. This classroom changed students' experience in the undergraduate executive information technology (IT) management class. Every college graduate should learn to think critically, solve problems, and communicate solutions, but 90% of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Information Technology, Program Administration, Undergraduate Students
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Arthurs, Seán – Social Education, 2015
How can educators immerse high school students in a real murder case investigation that will require them to draw upon and practice the critical thinking, literacy, and reasoning skill sets so highly valued under the Common Core, the C3 Framework and the 21st Century skills rubric? As an attorney and former high school teacher, the author knew…
Descriptors: High School Students, Social Studies, Learner Engagement, Inquiry
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Snodgrass, Suzanne – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Health professionals use critical thinking, a key problem solving skill, for clinical reasoning which is defined as the use of knowledge and reflective inquiry to diagnose a clinical problem. Teaching these skills in traditional settings with growing class sizes is challenging, and students increasingly expect learning that is flexible and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperation, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Brandt, Barbara F.; Lubawy, William C. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1998
Microsituations teaching is a case-based, active learning tool developed from cognitive learning theory to teach problem-solving skills to large classes while conserving faculty and other resources. Since implementing this method in an endocrine pharmacology course at the University of Kentucky, student performance on problem-solving examinations…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Allied Health Occupations Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Class Activities
Diamantes, Thomas – 1996
This paper describes why the use of a modified case method is useful in teaching concepts of school administration to educators entering public school administration. The paper defines the case method and differentiates it from other techniques and purposes; offers a history of case-study methodology that explains why the method caught on in law…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Class Activities