This paper reports on research that has been carried out into the use, process, and effectiveness of an asynchronous online seminar within an undergraduate sports studies degree programme. Contemporary sources are used to justify the use of technology supported learning (TSL) in higher education and to inform a reflective and critical account of the planning and delivery of an asynchronous onli...

introduction The Social Concerns Seminars represent one of the oldest traditions and yet one of the most dynamic programs of the Center for Social Concerns. Building on the model of the Urban Plunge (see Research Report 6) that flourished in the 1970s, students and staff—inspired by the Catholic social tradition—began in 1980 to serve in rural Appalachian communities over break periods. The App...

BACKGROUND Despite calls for the development and evaluation of pain education programs during early medical student training, little research has been dedicated to this initiative. OBJECTIVES To develop a pain management and palliative care seminar for medical students during their surgical clerkship and evaluate its impact on knowledge over time. METHODS A multidisciplinary team of palliat...

On 17 September 2022, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Uttar Pradesh Section Chapter hosted a seminar along with Bansal Institute of Engineering and Technology (BIET) Student Branch theme “About Membership Benefits.”

Many post-secondary academic institutions in the United States have a First-Year Seminar Program. These seminars are designed to support the success of new incoming first-year students by combining writing, research and active discussion among small groups of students. At Dickinson College, students are required to select six seminars they find interesting from a list of approximately 42 semina...

Although the use of clickers and peer discussion is becoming common in large-lecture undergraduate biology courses, their use is limited in small-enrollment seminar-style courses. To investigate whether facilitating peer discussion with clickers would add value to a small-enrollment seminar-style course, we evaluated their usefulness in an 11-student Embryology course at the University of Color...

Student engagement is of critical importance because it can help students gain more knowledge from the course. This paper investigates how to improve student graduate in seminar teaching, and results show that self-efficacy, classmate support, teacher support have significant positive effects on engagement. These findings highlight value support. Therefore, college should take measures promote

College student retention is a complex phenomenon influenced by myriad of factors and with wide-ranging implications for university functions. First-year seminar one approach to increase first-year through involvement, engagement, integration. This quantitative study examines the influence on first-year, full-time, four-year degree-seeking students who matriculated during fall 2016, 2017, 2018 ...

Over the past decade, iSchools have emerged to educate the next generation of information professionals and scholars. Claiming to be edgy and innovative, how can and should these scbools function in tbe spirit of assessment tbat now drives so much in the university? This essay, which explores how well we can assess iSchools, emerged from a doctoral seminar. Academic Culture and Practice, taugbt...