scholarly journals "Hyper Active Learning" In An Upper Level Engineering Classroom

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Parker
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Engineering Classroom

Beaches, Temples, and Flying Proas

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
Kirk Johnson ◽  
Heather Garrido ◽  
Alyssa Gordon ◽  
M. G. Remitera-Huavas ◽  
Artemia Perez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Learner Centered Pedagogy

Our mission at educators, teachers, professors, and yes, even guides and facilitators on the journey of knowledge and learning for students in higher education must be to strive each and every day to foster an environment within the classroom and even beyond its walls that seeks to empower the learners to take charge of their own learning and to endeavor to find approaches and strategies that most effectively contribute to the outcomes of stated learning objectives. In this chapter, the authors analyze five years of experience within the classroom setting in upper level sociology courses at the University of Guam. The experience centers around strategies and approaches in three broad areas of learner-centered pedagogy that include flipping the classroom, collaborative, and active learning approaches.

Student Responses to Active Learning Activities With Live and Virtual Rats in Psychology Teaching Laboratories

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maree J. Hunt ◽  
Anne C. Macaskill
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Alternative Teaching ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Psychology Courses ◽  
Upper Level

Taking an ethical approach to using nonhuman animals in teaching requires assessment of the learning benefits of using animals and how these compare to the benefits of alternative teaching practices. It is also important to consider whether students have ethical reservations about completing exercises with animals. We compared upper level undergraduate students’ evaluations of psychology laboratories using live rats with their evaluations of using a virtual rat (Sniffy). Students reported that the live-rat labs were ethically acceptable and that working with live rats enhanced their learning to a greater extent than working with Sniffy. These results support the retention of laboratories using live rats in psychology courses.

scholarly journals Learning Inside-Out: Turning the Outside World into Class with an Eye Towards Sustainability and Well-Being

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dann Sklarew ◽  
Andrew Wingfield ◽  
Allison Richards
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Pedagogical Tools ◽  
Classroom Techniques ◽  
Capstone Courses ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Inside Out

This session examines emerging "flipped classroom" techniques to promote active learning about sustainability and well-being. First, presenters share a few pedagogical tools for active, mobile learning among sustainability studies practitioners, including a few illustrations for each. These tools include social learning, living laboratories, service learning, and action research. Opportunities to enhance these activities through use of Mason's Patriot Green Fund will also be shared. Presenters will then explore how these tools could be adapted and used to foster learning and practice related to sustainability and well-being across the curricula of session participants.Faculty who desire to enhance their pedagogy through active learning and address real-world community challenges should discover several valuable methods, a few pitfalls, and lots of lessons learned. Applications may span single sessions or entire courses. Those teaching upper-level undergraduate synthesis or graduate capstone courses with a focus on practical scholarship may find this session particularly useful to their teaching.

scholarly journals Educational Escape Rooms as an Active Learning Tool for Teaching Telecommunications Engineering

Telecom ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-166
Author(s):  
Robert Ross ◽  
Anthony de Souza-Daw
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
University Level ◽  
Engineering Classroom

Traditional education, particularly at a university level is not necessarily very engaging. Educational escape rooms are a recent game based learning approach which combines team based problem solving with a story-line and cryptic clues. In this paper, we apply the concept of educational escape rooms to the telecommunications engineering classroom by creating a series of two separate scenarios, each containing three puzzles. Our evaluation is based on survey results from telecommunication experts which suggest that this will be an engaging and challenging tool for teaching telecommunications engineering. Although educational escape rooms are rapidly being deployed in education, these are the first educational escape rooms that specifically addresses the field of telecommunications engineering.

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