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Catherine T. Amelink; Dustin M. Grote; Matthew B. Norris; Jacob R. Grohs – Innovative Higher Education, 2024
As higher education institutions look to educate and graduate degree earners that have the skills and knowledge necessary to design, communicate, and collaborate in ways that allow for innovative solutions to complex socio-technical challenges, new approaches to educational efforts are being considered and implemented. Institutional responses have…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Skill Development, Thinking Skills, STEM Education
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Hui Zhang; Haihan Zhang; Qian Zhang – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Computer programming and municipal engineering (ME) students' specialised knowledge are still poorly integrated, leading to limited improvement of students' programming abilities. This paper describes an effective attempt in ME at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT). Students were divided into several teams and required to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Municipalities, Skill Development, Universities
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Rizwan Azam; Muhammad Umer Farooq; Muhammad Rizwan Riaz – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2024
An undergraduate degree in engineering requires students to not only be proficient in engineering knowledge but also acquire comprehensive skills such as independent learning ability, strong communication skills, social knowledge, and innovative thinking. Therefore, problem-based learning (PBL), which is a student-centered approach, is getting…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students
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English, Niall J. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2022
Molecular-, fluid- and field-dynamics simulation are becoming more mainstream tools for practicing process engineers; here, the academic community needs to pay close attention to "upskilling" demands from industry, where remote working/training emphasizes the need for sophisticated computational-engineering design tools with molecular…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Skill Development, Computation, Design
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Torbaghan, Mehran Eskandari; Sasidharan, Manu; Jefferson, Ian; Watkins, Jonathan – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Through this study, a vehicle to enhance existing education curricula was demonstrated, by exposing students to research-informed educational activities and to experience the key digital systems used in different industrial sectors. Digital skills are in high demand across the globe, with over a million digitally skilled people required by 2022 in…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Computer Literacy, Problem Based Learning, Skill Development
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Lalanthi De Silva; Chanaka Rabel; S. Samita; Nicola Smith; Lachlan McIntyre; Tim Parkinson; Nayana Wijayawardhane – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2023
The recent review of the Veterinary Science degree program of the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, emphasised student-centred learning. Towards this end, courses were introduced throughout the program to integrate concurrent discipline-based material, which were delivered via problem-based learning (PBL) methodology. As PBL was novel to the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Veterinary Medical Education, Problem Based Learning, Critical Thinking
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Lio Moscardini; Molly Cameron; Christopher Clark; Nicola San Gong McNeil; Carys Mitchell; Dorothee Nys; Angela Jaap – Support for Learning, 2024
This article, co-authored with a group of undergraduate secondary music student teachers, shares their experiences as they learned about additional support needs and inclusive practice through a series of 10 problem-based learning (PBL) sessions. Drawing from their reflections on the weekly sessions, the paper explores the students' learning…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Music Education, Student Teachers, Secondary Education
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Yasemin Kirkgöz; Burcu Turhan – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2024
This multiple case study aims to describe how Turkish students in English Language Teaching (ELT) and Electrical-Electronics Engineering Program (EEP) conceive of Problem-based Learning (PBL), and how they experience their studies within a PBL-oriented curriculum. With the inclusion of these two cases into the study, the rationale is to represent…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Teacher Education, Engineering Education, English (Second Language)
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Havenga, Marietjie; Swart, Athur James – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Problem-based learning is an active student-centred approach, which requires engineering students to work together in solving real-world problems. This study aims to review the incorporation of cooperative learning principles in an introductory first-year engineering course that aimed to develop students' group skills while working on…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects, Undergraduate Students
Kristin Rainey – Online Submission, 2024
This qualitative case study sought to understand what elements of a business leadership course are designed and delivered to help business students develop compassionate leadership skills. The researcher collected qualitative data from (a) 3 course observations (Observations 1, 2, and 3) of the 90 undergraduate business leadership students, (b)…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership Training, Business Administration Education, Skill Development
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Ernawati, M. Dwi Wiwik; Sudarmin; Asrial; Damris, Muhammad; Haryanto; Nevriansyah, Eko; Fitriani, Riska; Putri, Wita Ardina – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This study aimed to describe the differences in students' creative thinking skills in a problem-based learning model with scaffolding in the biochemistry course. This study was designed using a quantitative explanatory research design with a sample of 113 students of the Jambi University Chemistry Education Study Program. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Problem Based Learning
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Orji, Chibueze Tobias; Ogbuanya, Theresa Chinyere – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2022
The need to determine the mechanisms of change that explain why problem-based learning (PBL) interventions are effective necessitated this study. The current study draws on survey responses from 78 electrical/electronic technology education undergraduates at public universities in southeast Nigeria to test the hypotheses suggested. Hierarchical…
Descriptors: Ability, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Problem Based Learning
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Marra, Rose M.; Hacker, Douglas J.; Plumb, Carolyn – Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Background: Developing self-directed learning (SDL) skills in engineering students is critical to support life-long learning. This research was conducted at Iron Range Engineering (IRE), an innovative, problem-based learning (PBL) engineering program, which has suffused the concept of metacognition throughout its curriculum. Purpose/Hypotheses:…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Independent Study, Skill Development, Problem Based Learning
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Wynn, Charles – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2022
This case study presents a problem-based learning (PBL) model that guides general education history students to practice and acquire more advanced problem-solving skills -- those found in postformal thinking systems -- and to apply these thinking skills to develop and share solution alternatives both to periodized historical issues and to current…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills, History Instruction
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Tupe, Navnath – Journal of Education, 2021
The article emphasizes the effects of blended learning program for enhancing entrepreneurial skills among women in Maharashtra with special reference to Pune district. The present study results in the creation of the entrepreneurial skill matrix that explores the necessary skills for creative entrepreneurs. Performing the entrepreneurial skill…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, Synchronous Communication
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