Collection

2012 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Brian Surgenor

role thatactive learning plays as the underlying pedagogical concept behind all such courses.Active LearningActive Learning is said to be the key to truly effective education. Goff paraphrased Piaget andsaid “… in order for a student to understand something, she must construct it herself, she mustre-invent it.”3. He went on to observe that students who are engaged in the learning processmaster the material. Students who are not engaged generally do not succeed. The best way toengage students is to create an exciting active learning environment. Active learning is a keyelement in the conceive, design, implement and operate approach of CDIO to engineeringeducation4. CDIO stands for Conceive Design Implement Operate, an international

Collection

2012 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Johanna Comanzo; Chris Normile

alsoprovides students with a free Online Writing Lab (OWL). OWL’s easily accessible andorganized content went live on the College’s website in December 2011 and is expected to be aninvaluable resource for students needing assistance with anything from basic grammar tocomplex research projects. Excelsior College Library is another free resource designed to helpstudents with research and study needs. Besides having access to the Library’s collections,students have dedicated librarians to help them identify, use, and evaluate information resources. Although not a free resource, Excelsior College offers Practice Exams as a useful tool forthose students that intend to “test-out” of certain degree requirements instead of taking a course.Preparing