Engaging engineering faculty in transformative practices in course design and teaching is critical to student success, especially in fields like engineering where there are challenges with attrition and retention. Thi...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9781538678978
Engaging engineering faculty in transformative practices in course design and teaching is critical to student success, especially in fields like engineering where there are challenges with attrition and retention. This paper presents a current course transformation program in which engineering faculty transform the design of their courses and teaching practices to improve learning supported by embedded experts. In this program, embedded experts are education experts who work with engineering faculty in transforming courses to address the needs of their students. This evaluation study investigates the outcomes of course transformations on engineering student achievement and teaching practices. The results show an overall improvement in student achievement outcomes and indicate that it has helped participating faculty become more successful engineering educators.
This paper describes the design of a professional development workshop on integrating robotics at the elementary and secondary school curriculum. The workshop was designed to support STEM education through teacher edu...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9781479999675
This paper describes the design of a professional development workshop on integrating robotics at the elementary and secondary school curriculum. The workshop was designed to support STEM education through teacher education at the university and post-university level. Moreover, the workshop leveraged the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and an interdisciplinary approach to engage teachers with robotics. The workshop's design and implementation highlights the affordances of an interdisciplinary approach for attracting a greater diversity of teachers across all content areas to provide students with educational robotics activities.
A supportive environment is one of the key factors that contribute to an effective learning process. This study aims to determine the factors that help build a supportive learning environment in order to keep the stud...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9781509025046
A supportive environment is one of the key factors that contribute to an effective learning process. This study aims to determine the factors that help build a supportive learning environment in order to keep the student engaged in academic and other activities of the institute/university. The paper reviews various criteria that help in the creation of such an environment for students. Based on the readings, the author has developed a framework encompassing the main elements of a supportive learning environment. A questionnaire was administered to students from six institutes. It was found that instructional, peer, institutional, and technical support play a key role in the creation of a supportive environment for the student. The results of this study can be used by educationists and management committees of universities/institutes to provide an effective learning environment for the students.
A person's facial expression is a great window into their emotional state. Around half of what we say to one another is conveyed nonverbally, while the other half is expressed vocally. One of the biggest challenge...
详细信息
In this paper, we discussed an approach towards integrating both the contents and cognitive level information extracted from LOs of a course into the domain ontology. We call this as LO annotated ontology (LAO). This ...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9781509025046
In this paper, we discussed an approach towards integrating both the contents and cognitive level information extracted from LOs of a course into the domain ontology. We call this as LO annotated ontology (LAO). This can form a first step towards building an automated system to measure the alignment of assessment instrument (AI) to course LOs. The effectiveness of this approach can be tested by comparing the manually generated results by the experienced teachers to the system generated results.
Object detection in remote sensing imagery is crucial for numerous applications such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster response. This paper investigates the effectiveness of transfer learning u...
详细信息
Phenomenography is a well-known empirical research approach that is often used to investigate students' ways of learning programming. Phenomenographic pedagogy is an instructional approach to plan learning and tea...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9781479935918
Phenomenography is a well-known empirical research approach that is often used to investigate students' ways of learning programming. Phenomenographic pedagogy is an instructional approach to plan learning and teaching activities. This theoretical paper gives an overview of prior research in phenomenographic studies of programming and shows how the results from these research studies can be applied to course design. Pedagogic principles grounded in the phenomenographic perspective on teaching and learning are then presented that consider how to tie students' experiences to the course goals ( relevance structure) and how to apply variation theory to focus on the desired critical aspects of learning. Building on this, an introductory object-oriented programming course is described as an example of research-based course design. The insights gained from the experience of running the course are shared with the community of computer science educators, as also the benefits and responsibilities for those who wish to adopt the phenomenographic perspective on learning to plan their teaching. The development of an increased awareness of the variation in students' ways of experiencing programming and the need to broaden the context of the programming course are discussed.
The increased use of social media platforms, which provide user-generated data in real-time, has significantly impacted the disaster response and recovery field. The application of artificial intelligence (AI) techniq...
详细信息
Acetylcholinesterase enzyme, which is responsible for the breakdown of acetylcholine, is a key therapeutic target to cure the Alzheimer Disease(AD). Whenever this enzyme is blocked, there is more acetylcholine accessi...
详细信息
We have conducted a survey of computing education at Japanese universities in 2016. Purpose of the survey is to understand current status of college level computing education in order to develop reasonable computing c...
详细信息
ISBN:
(纸本)9781538665220
We have conducted a survey of computing education at Japanese universities in 2016. Purpose of the survey is to understand current status of college level computing education in order to develop reasonable computing curriculum standard considering international recognition. The questions were about program organization, enrolled students, teaching staff, computing environment, and other topics relating to organizing and operating computing education. For the purpose, we investigated computing education at 7 universities and 5 academic communities in USA, Australia and EU counties in this paper. We also compare the survey result and discuss the reason of the difference.
暂无评论