scholarly journals Initiatives to foster engineering student motivation: A case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Encarnación Reyes ◽  
Alejandro Enfedaque ◽  
Jaime C. Gálvez
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Alternative Teaching ◽  
Dynamic Methods ◽  
University Lecturers

There is little doubt that student motivation is essential in providing a beneficial learning experience. One way to provide such motivation is to stimulate it through the most suitable methods of assessment. This paper shares the experience acquired by the authors - university lecturers in Civil Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid – both through their assessment methods and the feedback received via the Moodle platform. Over the last eight years the authors have introduced increasingly dynamic methods in their teaching and assessment, with highly satisfactory results being obtained. Over the last three academic years a test through co-assessment has been added and during the two an assessment exercise implemented through the Moodle platform. Each test has a weight of 5% of the final mark for the module. After sitting the respective Moodle test, the students filled in a questionnaire that sought their views not only on the teaching methods but also on how motivational they found such methods. As expected, the results showed that the students considered the internet-based Moodle platform to be useful. However, the most notable finding was that the majority felt that alternative teaching and assessment methods such as, among others, cooperative learning, were those that were most beneficial to their learning experience.

scholarly journals WHAT IT TAKES TO INNOVATE: THE EXPERIENCE OF PRODUCING AN ONLINE, REAL-TIME CASE STUDY

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
James Theroux
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Recent Attempt ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Business Courses ◽  
New Type ◽  
The One ◽  
Instantaneous Distribution

The case method can be classified as a type of experiential learning because students treat the problem in the case as if it were real and immediate. Until the Internet there was no practical way for cases to actually be real and immediate. The Internet makes possible instantaneous distribution of cases, and it makes possible their creation in real time. This article describes a recent attempt to use the Internet to bring business reality to business courses, and to facilitate communication among instructors, students, and the case company. It explores the challenges and difficulties involved in producing a new type of case study, and it assesses the feasibility of doing so on a regular basis. The goal of the author is to stimulate a dialog about how the Internet can be used to move forward all of our teaching methods, but especially the one that is prominent in schools of business: the case method.

scholarly journals Teaching Research Method Using a Student-Centred Approach? Critical Reflections on Practice

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Jo Barraket ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Teaching Problem ◽  
Case Study Teaching ◽  
Positive Effect

This article presents a reflective case study analysis of an attempt to enhance student learning through the introduction of student-centred teaching methods in a masters-level social research methods subject. The introduction of a range of specific techniques, including case study teaching, problem based learning, groupwork, role-play and simulation, is reflected upon. The article concludes that the re-orientation of the curriculum toward student-centredness in this case had a positive effect on student performance, learning experience and subject evaluation. In particular, the use of student-centred techniques facilitated a strong social context for learning, and provided students with a common experiential framework from which to explore the technical aspects of the curriculum. However, the analysis also found that students continued to place value on more formal teaching methods, and that the value of student-centred techniques in this case rested in the way in which they were integrated with more didactic teaching practice.

Using a Case Study Competition as an Intense Learning Experience in Sport Management

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Johnson ◽  
Lawrence W. Judge ◽  
Elizabeth Wanless
Keyword(s):  
Sport Management ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Sport Administration ◽  
Alternative Teaching ◽  
Time Commitment ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Real World Application ◽  
National Competition

Incorporating a national competition with the traditional case teaching method offers a unique and intense learning experience beyond what can be achieved in a typical classroom format. This paper discusses a graduate Sport Administration experience from preparation to presentation for students and faculty in the case study competition annually sponsored by the College Sport Research Institute (CSRI). Included is a thorough review of the case method highlighting what to expect from adopting this alternative teaching technique. The role of the faculty advisor is explained from both a theoretical and functional perspective with particular attention given to advising in a competition format. Student learning experiences were assessed using open-ended survey questions designed to encourage student reflection. Although students reported an immense time commitment, they were overwhelmingly satisfied with their competition experience that included in-depth learning, essential skill building, and real-world application.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Students for Gamification Approach: Kahoot as a Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huseyin Bicen ◽  
Senay Kocakoyun
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Student Views ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

A novel learning experience that increases student motivation can be created in a learning environment that includes a gamification approach to assess competence. Student views on gamification were surveyed to determine the best application of this method, the environment necessary for its use, and the manner by which the application should proceed. The effect of a gamification approach on student achievement through intra-class competition was assessed using quantitative and qualitative methods. In this study, the Kahoot application was the preferred gamification method used. Participating students included 65 undergraduate students studying at the Department of Preschool Teaching. The findings showed that inclusion of a gamification method increased the interest of students in the class, and increased student ambitions for success. This method was also found to have a positive impact on student motivation. Furthermore, the results of this study indicate that the Kahoot application can be used effectively for gamification of lessons. In conclusion, the gamification method has an impact on students that renders them more ambitious and motivated to study.

scholarly journals PODCAST IMPACTS ON STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILL: A CASE STUDY BASED ON STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 891-900
Author(s):  
Sartika Dewi Harahap
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Information Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Recording ◽  
Alternative Teaching ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Learning English

Technology has produced prominent contribution on education in this information age. It is well known as Edu technology. The podcast is an alternative teaching media to support students’ Listening Skill. In development of ICT, Podcast is a digital recording which contains a recorded program from television, radio, and interviews by using the internet. The present study was aimed to explore podcast effects on Listening Skill for university students. This study involved fourteen students on second semester of Tadris Bahasa Inggris Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri Mandailing Natal as participants. Questionnaire and interview were the instruments used in this study to collect the data. In conclusion, students moderately engage themselves to sharpen their English namely listening with technology experiences. Most of the participants agreed that they like podcast because it helped them in learning English. Podcast provided tremendous topics and activities which make both teachers and students enrich their knowledge and develop their English skills in educational purposes.

The Internet is a Semicommons

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Grimmelmann
Keyword(s):  
Open Field ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Field System ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Dynamic Interplay ◽  
Enormous Success

78 Fordham Law Review 2799 (2010)The Internet is a semicommons. Private property in servers and network links coexists with a shared communications platform. This distinctive combination both explains the Internet's enormous success and illustrates some of its recurring problems.Building on Henry Smith's theory of the semicommons in the medieval open-field system, this essay explains how the dynamic interplay between private and common uses on the Internet enables it to facilitate worldwide sharing and collaboration without collapsing under the strain of misuse. It shows that key technical features of the Internet, such as its layering of protocols and the Web's division into distinct "sites," respond to the characteristic threats of strategic behavior in a semicommons. An extended case study of the Usenet distributed messaging system shows that not all semicommons on the Internet succeed; the continued success of the Internet depends on our ability to create strong online communities that can manage and defend the infrastructure on which they rely. Private and common both have essential roles to play in that task, a lesson recognized in David Post's and Jonathan Zittrain's recent books on the Internet.

scholarly journals Public Archaeology's Mammoth in the Room: Engaging Wikipedia as a Tool for Teaching and Outreach

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Grillo ◽  
Daniel A. Contreras
Keyword(s):  
Public Archaeology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
African Archaeology

AbstractAlthough archaeology has become increasingly concerned with engaging diverse publics, and has embraced the internet as a means of facilitating such engagement, attitudes towards Wikipedia have—understandably—been more ambivalent. Nevertheless, we argue here, Wikipedia's popularity and reach mean that archaeologists should actively engage with the website by adding and improving archaeological content. One way to do this is in the classroom: this paper provides a detailed how-to for instructors interested in having students create new Wikipedia content. We provide a case study in Wikipedia engagement from an advanced undergraduate course on African Archaeology, assess a program (Wiki Education) designed to help, and suggest further avenues for future outreach. We conclude that Wikipedia's utopian mission aligns with many of the goals of public archaeology, and argue that archaeology has much to gain by engaging with—rather than ignoring or even shunning—Wikipedia.

scholarly journals Videoteleconferencing Early Child Anxiety Treatment: A Case Study of the Internet-Delivered PCIT CALM (I-CALM) Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine E. Cooper-Vince ◽  
Tommy Chou ◽  
Jami M. Furr ◽  
Anthony C. Puliafico ◽  
Jonathan S. Comer
Keyword(s):  
Child Anxiety ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Early Child ◽  
Anxiety Treatment
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