Conference Session

The 2017 Zone Best Paper Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Easton, Kansas State University

Tagged Topics

Council of Sections

issues. A leader is frequentlyselected for each group. The leader’s primary responsibility is to report the group’s findings tothe class. In project based learning, students are given a fairly complex problem and told to solve ittypically in groups. The groups work to solve the problem and the instructor oversees theprogress that the groups make. The instructor may also provide ideas to assure that the group ispursuing the project in the correct manner. There are strengths and weaknesses in every teaching method. The primary strength ofthese active learning techniques is the students participation in the class. In this fashion thestudents feel an ownership in the material and are more likely to learn and retain knowledge. A