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Chuang, Chien-Pen; Jou, Min; Lin, Yen-Ting; Lu, Cheng-Tien – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
Electronic engineering industries require technical specialists to operate precision electronic instruments. However, limitations in course designs and equipment availability mean that only a few students are able to use the equipment in practical lessons within a limited timeframe. Also, instruction of techniques and skills are still mostly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Technical Education, Context Effect
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Cennamo, Katherine; Brandt, Carol; Scott, Brigitte; Douglas, Sarah; McGrath, Margarita; Reimer, Yolanda; Vernon, Mitzi – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2011
The ill-structured nature of design problems makes them particularly challenging for problem-based learning. Studio-based learning (SBL), however, has much in common with problem-based learning and indeed has a long history of use in teaching students to solve design problems. The purpose of this ethnographic study of an industrial design class,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Design, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
Cline, Hugh F. – 1989
The first report of an ongoing case study examining the impact of using a laboratory of microcomputers as a tool for teaching science and social science courses in a high school, this paper reports on a sociological investigation of the organizational change in the structure and functioning of the school brought about by the introduction of the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Critical Thinking, High Schools, Instructional Innovation
Koschmann, Timothy – 1995
Southern Illinois University developed an instructional approach for supporting collaborative, problem-based learning (PBL) in medical education. A succession of software tools were developed and refined to implement this approach, and a technology-enriched facility, the "Collaborative Learning Lab" (CLL) was designed. The paper…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Cooperation, Courseware
Best, Linda – 1997
In Spring 1996, the author sought and received funding for a multimedia interactive laboratory classroom that would serve English as a Second Language (ESL) students at Kean College (New Jersey) from their beginning level course work through their advanced studies in composition and research. Reasons for seeking funding were many, the most…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Design, Computer Assisted Instruction
Fleming, Delryn R., Ed. – 1983
Drawn from a conference that focused on the present state and future direction of college reading and learning skills instruction, the articles in this collection are arranged into three categories: reviews, investigations and evaluations, and prescriptions and descriptions. Among the topics discussed in the 19 articles are the following: (1) the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Content Area Reading