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Jenny Sjöholm; Kristina Trygg – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
This article looks at a challenge-based learning (CBL) approach that aims to engage students in sustainable transitions within urban and regional planning. Drawing on CBL, we focus on how living labs -- the idea of using a city as a site for user-driven innovation and development -- can be used as a site and methodology in education and research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Planning, Regional Planning, Metropolitan Areas
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Broman, Karolina; Bernholt, Sascha; Christensson, Camilla – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2022
Background: To make students more interested and engaged in science, new teaching approaches have been developed aiming at higher order thinking. Context-based learning approaches emanate from an idea that science content knowledge should be presented in a relevant context for students to improve their learning outcomes as well as making them more…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Relevance (Education), Science Interests, Learner Engagement
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Gelot, Ludwig – Journal of Peace Education, 2019
Incomplete and insufficient university programmes in the field of Peace and Conflict Resolution have led to an important gap in knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA) among peacebuilders and peacekeepers. In theory, experiential learning through problem-based learning (PBL) and simulations should be able to address this gap. This article explores…
Descriptors: Peace, Teaching Methods, Conflict Resolution, Experiential Learning
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Englund, Claire – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how teachers' approaches to teaching and conceptions of teaching and learning with educational technology influence the implementation of three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVWs) in health care education. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected through thematic interviews with eight…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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Annerstedt, Claes; Garza, Dan; Huang-DeVoss, Cammy; Lindh, Jacob; Rydmark, Martin – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2010
This research project describes an attempt to move towards a more student centered and participatory approach on learning through problem-based storyboards (themes/scenarios) and a unique opportunity for students to have an academic cross-cultural exchange. The purpose of the study was to analyze students' conceptions of this approach on learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Problem Based Learning, Cultural Influences, Teaching Methods
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Jungert, Tomas; Rosander, Michael – Studies in Higher Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between student influence, students' strategic approaches to studying and academic achievement, and to examine differences between students in a Master's programme in Engineering with conventional teaching and one based on problem-based learning in a sample of 268 students. A version of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Problem Based Learning, Study Skills, Teaching Methods
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Tovote, Christina – 2001
This paper discusses customer services in academic libraries. The first section addresses the concept of the "customer." Thereafter, the paper applies the metaphor of the producer and its consumers to the relationship between a university and its students. The second section looks at education as a process of refinement. Next, the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Nulden, Urban; Ward, Bodil – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2002
Multimedia as an educational technology tool is used throughout the educational system. In this article we present a research project where multimedia scenario was used to initiate a discussion about Internet use among students and teachers at a primary school. Multimedia scenario is the use of large screen multimedia to initiate and facilitate…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Problem Based Learning, Experiential Learning, Educational Technology