Innovative Processes in Education: Scientific Approaches

Innovative Approaches to Engineering Education

Innovation is about doing useful things differently: converting novel ideas and methods into solutions that meet new needs, or adding significant value to established products and services. In engineering education, new technological and practice requirements necessitate curriculum innovation, while innovation in educational practice can improve students’ learning and faculty productivity. Most...

E-Education Applications: Human Factors and Innovative Approaches

The text's 20 articles vary significantly in the nature of their utility. Certain articles provide a broad, but not deep, survey of their topic's historical development. Others provide a tightly focused and penetrating analysis of their topic's developmental vanguard. The first category is most useful to the novice or beginner, while the latter is most helpful to the experienced professional. I...

Body Matters – Innovative Epistemological Approaches to Scientific and Practical Knowledge in Pedagogy

Innovative Simulation Strategies in Education

The use of simulation in the undergraduate nursing curriculum is gaining popularity and is becoming a foundation of many nursing programs. The purpose of this paper is to highlight a new simulation teaching strategy, virtual reality (VR) simulation, which capitalizes on the technological skills of the new generation student. This small-scale pilot study focused on improving interpersonal skills...

Tinkering in Scientific Education

In recent years in arts, technology and science there appears an increasing push to use technology and design in a more personal and autonomous context, integrated with the physical world. Creative platforms are developed that open up personal digital/physical technology to larger groups of novice tinkerers, allowing people to take control of technology and prototype solutions to personal probl...