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Kerrigan, John; Aghekyan, Rosa – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2022
This paper explores the effective online teaching practices and activities used for an asynchronous online learning environment. During the 15-week semester, students had various opportunities to learn rigorous content while utilizing various technological tools. The course, called "How People Learn," offered diverse and exciting…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Asynchronous Communication, Learning Processes
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Chine, Danielle R. – Online Submission, 2022
This study discusses the effectiveness of a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) program spanning grades six through eight in a traditional, urban school district located in Northeastern Ohio. The history and expressed need for STEM education within post-steel producing and economically depressed regions are discussed. Important…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Middle School Students, Educational History, Program Effectiveness
Albright, Glenn; Fazel, Mina; Khalid, Nikita; McMillan, Jeremiah; Hilty, Don; Shockley, Kristen; Joshi, Shashank – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of an online virtual human role-play simulation in teaching high school educators and staff to identify, talk to, and if necessary, refer students in psychological distress to support services. High school educators (N = 31,144) from 43 US states and 5 American territories completed a baseline…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, High School Teachers, Faculty Development, Computer Simulation
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Chan, Selena, Ed.; Huntington, Nicholas, Ed. – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2022
This book contributes extensively to a better understanding of how vocational education and training (VET) and practice-based learning and teaching is developed and designed. It presents examples of vocational education as an ongoing dialogue, continually refreshed through engagement between educators and learners, Maori, employers, industry, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach
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Michelle L. Kovarik; Betty Cristina Galarreta; Peter J. Mahon; Daniel A. McCurry; Aren E. Gerdon; Steven M. Collier; Marjorie E. Squires – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
This article reports the results of a curriculum survey of 322 analytical chemistry instructors (92% U.S.-based) conducted during Spring 2021. This snapshot of current course formats, topics, and pedagogical methods will be useful to both seasoned and novice teachers of analytical chemistry. The majority of respondents reported that their major…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Active Learning, Evidence Based Practice
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Ji Kim – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Teaching chemistry to nonscience majors is challenging because most students come to class with negative beliefs about chemistry. Those mindsets stem from their inaccurate prior knowledge of how chemistry relates to their daily lives. To address the issues and promote students' engagement in chemistry courses, we implemented ubiquitous biodiesel…
Descriptors: Wastes, Food, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Huan Zhang; Bob Fisher – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2022
Blended Learning (BL), which is usually defined as a combination of face to face (F2F) and online instruction, has attracted considerable interest in recent years and has been increasingly adopted within the higher education sector. In this research, a thematic inductive analysis was conducted to explore how the practice of Active Blended Learning…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Higher Education, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Karasic, Victoria – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2016
Over the past two decades, academic library spaces have evolved to meet the changing teaching and learning needs of diverse campus communities. The Information Commons combines the physical and virtual in an informal library space, whereas the recent Active Learning Classroom creates a more formal setting for collaboration. As scholarship has…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, School Space, Classrooms, Active Learning
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Leslie, J. Michelle; Tzeel, Benjamin A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
A guided inquiry-based experiment exploring the regioselectivity of the hydration of phenylacetylene is described. The experiment uses an acidic gold(III) catalyst in a benign methanol/water solvent system to introduce students to alkyne chemistry and key principles of green chemistry. The experiment can be easily completed in approximately 2 h,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Science Experiments, Chemistry
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Tharayil, Sneha; Borrego, Maura; Prince, Michael; Nguyen, Kevin A.; Shekhar, Prateek; Finelli, Cynthia J.; Waters, Cynthia – International Journal of STEM Education, 2018
Background: Research has shown that active learning promotes student learning and increases retention rates of STEM undergraduates. Yet, instructors are reluctant to change their teaching approaches for several reasons, including a fear of student resistance to active learning. This paper addresses this issue by building on our prior work which…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Educational Strategies
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Ray, Anubha – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2018
Over the last few decades, researchers and teachers of English have never been so divided over the issue of grammar in English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL)-how it should be taught, its methods and approaches and to the extent whether it should be taught at all or not. After the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)…
Descriptors: Grammar, Active Learning, Student Projects, Second Language Instruction
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Rabidoux, Salena; Rottmann, Amy – International Journal on E-Learning, 2018
Flipped classrooms are often utilized in PK-12 classrooms; however, there is also a growing trend of flipped classrooms in higher education. This paper presents the benefits and limitations of implementing flipped classrooms in higher education as well as resources for integrating a flipped classroom design to instruction. The various technology…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Blended Learning, Educational Benefits
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Troftgruben, Troy M. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2018
The field of biblical studies lends itself well to decentered online learning--a kind that uses active learning to engage primary texts and their interpretations. Not only does such an approach work well in online and hybrid formats, it more readily welcomes readings that are more contextual, constructive, and collaborative. Three aspects best…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Online Courses, Biblical Literature, Electronic Learning
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McMahon, Joan M. – Management Teaching Review, 2018
This article describes an in-class, noncomputerized, bingo game to accompany coverage of the topic of organizational structure. The game allows students to be actively involved in learning, solidify recognition and understanding of organizational structure terminology, apply understanding of organizational structure to an analysis of…
Descriptors: Organizational Theories, Administrative Organization, Educational Games, Communication Skills
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Espey, Molly – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This study examines students' perceptions of the development of academic and critical thinking skills in college, with a specific focus on team-based learning (TBL), an active learning strategy designed to increase student interaction and engagement. Six hundred and fifty students in five different courses were surveyed at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning
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