In the context of the national debate over the advantages and disadvantages of honors education, we developed a two-semester honors curriculum designed to draw upon the benefits of integrating teaching and research through student participation in an ethnographic research project. This paper recounts the process of the pedagogy and curriculum and discusses some key findings and outcomes of the ...

In this paper, we investigate how the students think of their experience in a junior (300 level) computer science course that uses blackboard as the underlying course management system. Blackboard’s discussion boards are heavily used for programming project support and to foster cooperation among students to answer their questions/concerns. A survey is conducted through blackboard as a voluntar...

This meta-analysis employs a theoretical framework in quantitatively synthesizing empirical studies that investigate the effects of distance education (DE) versus classroom instruction on undergraduate student achievement. Analyses of 218 findings from 103 studies were conducted according to how media were used to support DE pedagogy. The results indicate that the effect sizes for synchronous i...

The authors discuss elements that potentially impact student satisfaction with asynchronous learning: the media culture, digital, personal and mobile technologies, student learning preferences, pedagogy, complexities of measurement, and the digital generation. They describe a pilot study to identify the underlying dimensions of student satisfaction with online learning and present examples of t...

We are interested in understanding how mobile devices can enhance lecture based pedagogy by allowing the instructor and students to interact electronically and in real time by exchanging lecture materials and in-class student work. We have deployed a Tablet PC based classroom interaction system in undergraduate courses, and developed a pedagogy which incorporates mediated student contributions ...

One goal of the VaNTH Engineering Research Center is to estimate the effects of the “value added” to bioengineering student learning as a result of “How People Learn” (HPL) framework interventions. A necessary step in that process is to assess pedagogical differences in both lecture-based and HPL-oriented courses. Data from 28 bioengineering courses, over five semesters, were analyzed using a n...

Nowadays, Information and Communication Technologies change the way students learn. Many researches are centered on the developing of new forms of pedagogy and software for student learning. But ICT also involve changes in teachers roles, which are not yet well defined in particular for on-line tutors. In this article, we develop new ways for tutors to define themselves their “professional iden...

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is an important knowledge component for graduate IS and E-Commerce (IS/EC) programs. HCI topics, such as user-centered design and usability testing, are particularly critical to the development of Internet-based solutions, but have not yet gained enough attention in graduate IS/ECT programs. In this paper, we discuss HCI-related learning objectives and alternati...

This article reports the outcomes of a kinesthetic learning strategy used during a cardiac lecture to engage students and to improve the use of classroom-acquired knowledge in today's challenging clinical settings. Nurse educators are constantly faced with finding new ways to engage students, stimulate critical thinking, and improve clinical application in a rapidly changing and complex health ...

The biology of the 21(st) century requires a revolution in teaching that corresponds to the revolution that the discipline experienced in the last decades of the 20(th) century. Consensus is not a tradition in the many disparate subdisciplines that constitute modern biology, but the demands of effective instruction prompted an unprecedented series of conversations among all the stakeholders of ...