include Politics of Hip Hop, From Beast Books toDinosaurs Resurrected, Race in the Humanities and in the Social Sciences, Psychology in theCinema and the Arts, and Scientific Controversies and Public Debate. These courses representinnovative approaches to teaching and learning that integrate multiple disciplines, promotecritical thinking, and engage students in active learning.The course development process culminated in the creation of a comprehensive set of materialsthat included a detailed syllabus outlining course objectives, weekly assignments, assessments,and a reading list, as well as a range of course materials and resources. Additionally, thematerials featured sample evaluation criteria that enabled the assessment of integrative
more severe. Onecurrent type of violation is contract cheating, first coined by Lancaster and Clarke in 2006, whichinvolves paying a third-party to complete an assignment instead of the student enrolled in theclass [4]. Some researchers have even discovered “ghost students,” in which a fee is paid foranother person or company to enroll in an online course for an entire semester on behalf ofsomeone else [5]. Even though contract cheating and ghost-students are extremely severeviolations because of the awareness of the deviousness of the act, the underlying motivations forthese types of violations often reflect the same causes as other forms of academic integrityviolations [4].Students have cited a variety of motivations for engaging in academic
and how to measure the quality of software and the development process itself (a, e)• To comprehend the software testing and quality assurance processes for both traditional and distributed projects (a, g)• To apply testing and quality assurance concepts to small-scale software projects (a, c, e, g, k)• To comprehend formal verification methods (a, e) The course was designed to include in-class learning through group problem-solving andtraditional lectures, out-of-class learning through online lectures and/or research literaturereading for selected topics, and a semester-long team project focused on application of testingtechniques as well as performing QA activities. Additionally, graduate students were required tocomplete a
least usedpractices also included classroom techniques that could encourage participation from all studentsmore often, which could also improve the in-classroom experience. Some of the most usedpractices from the menu included not judging student responses which directly contributes to theclassroom climate. However, some of the other highly used strategies focused on elements of thecourse outside of the classroom experience such as creating availability to meet with studentsand having explicit goals in the course syllabus. The open-ended responses from the facultysurvey expressed that faculty were grateful for the experience, but they also wanted moreinclusive teaching resources which could help them employ some of the practices that
Senior Design project model, it was an elective for the architecturestudents, and the civil engineering students enrolled in a separate Civil Engineering SeniorDesign course with a separate syllabus. The faculty leader had to navigate the varyingrequirements, values, and deliverables of each course. It was intended that each discipline withinthe team would have a faculty mentor within their department to answer more detailed questionsand to receive critiques, but for many teams that did not happen. To further complicate theprocess, due to students’ varying schedules, meeting times were set by the students just once aweek for one hour. Larger teams were not able to establish an overlapping hour within the week,so they were divided into sub-teams
students rated the environments forfavorability in the beginning of the semester and decided whether or not they would go tothe classroom during the course hours listed on the syllabus and how their learning wouldbe facilitated. The “soft classroom” was the students’ first choice, over the “hybridclassroom” and “hard classroom.” Therefore, they were not required to attend theclassroom physically. In addition, the students were responsible for their own pace oflearning, without their learning progress being regularly checked. The instructor andteaching assistants were still available in the classroom during the course hours to interactwith students. To understand how the “soft classroom” worked and helped students tolearn, the authors distributed a
is clicked, the video file is opened in a box ready for playing. Each file caneither be made available for the entire semester or it can be made available between any twodates. The Course Syllabus is also placed as a PDF file under contents. I have created modulesequivalent to the chapters in the text book. Under each module, I have multiple units (items).Under each item I place links to the specific files needed for that unit including video files.Quizzes: This module is used to administer tests of any kind. It is made available on thespecified date and time and for the given duration only. The testing material questions can be ina variety of forms such as multiple-choice, true and false, etc. and can be computer graded withthe grades being
quantitative results yet, the benefits of usingvLabs were capture by an external evaluator who conducted focus group interviews with students.This section summarizes information during the focus group with eight students, enrolled atNNMC. Participants were interviewed by the project evaluator using a focus group strategy. Aftera brief summary of the purpose of the focus group, participants introduced themselves andprovided their year in college. Six students were seniors, one student was a fifth year senior, andone student was a junior. The group included seven males and one female. The evaluator used thecourse syllabus to guide the discussion related to course content. Students agreed the coursecontent was relevant to their needs, met or exceeded
Iwondered how I was going to be able to use writing as one inclusive strategy. As it turned out,building community online has been an interesting challenge and one that the students seem tobe excited to help with.Prior to Covid, students would receive 3 points just for coming to class. There was norequirement that the students had to participate in class in order to receive those points. Myphilosophy is that every person in the class is valued and their presence simply serves to createand enhance our classroom community. On my course syllabus I had referred to these points asclass involvement points and made the argument that a student was involved in class simply bybeing present – regardless of whether they asked or answered a question, helped
identify what the studentsshould be able to do and know at the end of the course or class. These learning outcomes arestated in the course syllabus and are reviewed by the students at the beginning of the course.However, normally the students do not review them frequently during the semester.In 2022, a detailed list of learning outcomes was defined for the Introduction to Cyber Securitycourse for Majors. This list includes a granular set of outcomes that students should achieve aftereach class of the semester. Using the Learning Management System (LMS), these outcomes areincluded in each week’s module and are also reviewed at the beginning of each class. In thisway, students are constantly in contact with this information.This paper presents the
flipped classroom approach was easier. The courseware includes,professionally design and edited instructional videos, which include nice scripts, labs in theonline simulator, and review quizzes. As weekly take home assignments, students have to reviewcarefully selected sections of the courseware. To assess that they actually complete theassignments, we count as part of their final grade both, the average grades of online labs and theaverage grades of quizzes at the end of each section assigned. Students can take the quizzes andthe labs as many times as they need to pass them. However, the minimum passing grade is 80%.Thus, the course grading policy is as follows: Homework assignments: 50% Quizzes: 25% Labs: 25
-2015 Executed initial qualification and mission training in A/MH-6 series helicopters. Developed syllabus, lesson plans and course material. RELATED EXPERIENCE 2015 – 2018 Boeing Sikorsky Aircraft Support, Ft. Campbell, KY Flight Publications Manager Super- vised production and revisions of Operator’s Manuals, Crewmember Checklists, and Maintenance Test Flight Manuals for three U.S. Army Helicopters. 2001 – 2015 International Development and Resources, Ft. Campbell, KY Mission Flight Instruction AH-6 section Leader. Executed initial qualification and mission training in A/MH-6 series helicopters. Developed syllabi, lesson plans and course material. Conducted flight and academic instruction. 1978-2001 U.S
andfree online learning resources and textbooks.To reward motivation, risk-taking, and persistence, a claw-back incentive was established. Theclaw-back incentive provides an exception to the final exam, which is granted and explained onthe syllabus on the first day of class. The incentive for performing well on the roboticprogramming project will be revoked or 'clawed back' when the performance metrics are not met.Research by economist John A. List found it to be effective in motivating individuals [12], [13].To enhance inclusion, the first day of class was dedicated to establishing a sense of belongingand a learner-centered growth mindset. Students were informed of the risks associated withoffering the course and the opportunity it provided for
to theirinstructors in other courses. I trained colleagues at my department and college on how to usedigital means to connect with students and the community. I offered several opportunities fortraining on technology to aid in learning and teaching for students and faculty. My virtual face-to-face “Teaching and Learning Online” training sessions were attended by several of mypg. 10colleagues at the college of engineering. I also taught digital teaching and learning trainingsessions for the campus community. Further, students who lived in the engineering LivingLearning Community (LLC) had to leave campus in order to maintain social distancing. So thatstudents didn’t miss out on the living on campus experiences, I hosted digital social
of Brazil would have been helpful for the students toget a better cultural perspective and allow for better immersion into the current atmosphere ofBrazil.Improvements and Second Time TaughtA syllabus with a schedule of daily activities was an improvement made to the second iterationof this Brazilian culture course. The course description was:This course provides an interdisciplinary and critical examination of the Brazilian culture. Thecourse is designed for students who will participate in an educational trip to Brazil. The courseexamines major historical events from the colonial, imperial, and national periods, and their"legacies" or influences on current socio-economic, political, and cultural aspects of theBrazilian society. To better
, Morgan State University Dr. J. ’Kemi Ladeji-Osias is Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the De- partment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Morgan State University in Baltimore. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in computer engineering. Dr. Ladeji-Osias earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University. She is the Principal Investigator for Doctoral Scholars in Engineering. Dr. Ladeji-Osias’ involvement in engineering curricular innovations includes outcomes-based articulation and online delivery of undergraduate engineering degrees. In addition to conducting research on
members, lead to a greater understanding of student needs and how best to accommodate them while considering the unique approach to learning and teaching at Olin College. One of the initial difficulties in accommodating Ella’s needs in a course like this may spring up as the course begins. Ella’s challenges with executive functioning combined with her high anxiety and former reliance on a regular planning with instructors may not coincide well with a course that is individualistic and self-paced. Such a course may not typically have a syllabus with clearly defined deadlines. Also, because instructors and faculty members are responding in real time to student work, being able to anticipate or plan for long-term learning objectives becomes very
to the liftingof travel restrictions and the growing demand for in-person experiences from both students andeducational institutions. While the core structure remained unchanged, an 8-day onsite programin Indonesia was introduced for the social science learning component. Participants now had theoption to select either a fully online virtual course (VAx) or a hybrid model consisting of halfvirtual and half onsite courses (HAx). The onsite courses were designed to be affordable for allinterested participants, as out-of-pocket costs only included round-trip transportation to and fromSurabaya International Airport. Onsite accommodation, ground transportation, and regularlyscheduled meals were sponsored by ITS. This effective utilization of the
12engineering topic of self-healing infrastructure, explore contextually relevant knowledge,synthesize actual self-healing concrete samples, and synthesize online and offline findings topresent in front of a peer audience. They are also well-suited to project-based courses and“unconference” sessions that inculcate greater interaction and collaboration between participants.For instance, at the time of writing, Elsevier’s Engineering team has partnered with a series ofAiChE Regional Student Conferences to launch similar sessions having as many as 100participants, to provide a professional development experience around real industry corrosionmitigation and asset management challenges. The format is agnostic to the particular challengeor toolsets used and
, students are expected to create a display (poster, brochure, animations, or video)that visually communicates how an engineered system of their choice works. While the studentswork individually on the displays for each unit, they collaborate with peers in the class tobrainstorm ideas, improve drafts and evaluate the final projects. Engineered systems that studentshave selected to explain include clocks, LED lights, bicycle gears, stethoscopes, games,thermometers, wind turbines, photovoltaics, and more. The course syllabus is provided inAppendix A.In addition to the projects, each unit includes introductory lectures related to engineering,sketching lessons and exercises, hands-on building projects, and reverse engineering activities.The following
human-centered design approach, (2) the intersection of socialjustice and design thinking, and (3) the implications of design choices on historicallymarginalized groups. Course artifacts, student reflections, and instructional team reflections areused to understand the growth in mindset of the students and instructor through this course.Additionally, these resources are used to present key learnings for future implementation.This project focused on examining systems. Groups historically excluded from engineering,including people of color, disabled, LGBTQ+, and women, were recentered through the humancentered design process. Students evaluated engineering systems for exclusion and ideated on thesource of these design flaws. In doing so, they
reviews ofteaching options that are required for promotion and tenure: 1.) Observation of classroomteaching; 2.) Review of syllabus and other course materials.We coordinated with the Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning, which employsstaff trained in evidence-based faculty development, trainings on conducting evidence-basedobservations of classroom teaching, as well as using the forms we created to structure effectiveand useful conversations prior to and after the observation of teaching session occurred. We alsoconducted a second session on using the evidence from the observation of teaching report towrite effective letters of evaluation of teaching. Recently, we offered trainings on how toevaluate and review online courses, and
that the best time for the workshop would be at thebeginning of the fall semester. Some faculty deemed the workshop so relevant to their classesthat they decided to include it in their syllabus for the fall and make it mandatory for theirstudents to participate. One other very important idea suggested by faculty was that theworkshop be recorded and made available online so that it could be available to those notparticipating in the workshop and enabling its content be reused in future courses. This initialplanning step also helped secure the faculty speakers for the campus session.The faculty enthusiasm was so great that the news about the workshop reached multiple officeson campus that were interested in offering event support. The Division
have documented: elective face-to-face courses [3],[4], online courses [5], course concentrations [6], [7], capstone experiences [8], [9], and project-based courses embedded in the engineering curriculum [2], [10]–[12]. Most studies on entrepreneurship education have analyzed psychological outcomes, such asself-efficacy and entrepreneurial intent [13]. Few of them have explored short and long-termeffects on professional competencies and career goals [14]. Some of them have used classroomassessment techniques and academic records to understand students’ conceptions ofentrepreneurial learning [15], [16], but more efforts are needed to explore how students learn aboutentrepreneurship as they develop ownership of their ideas [17]. This article
videos were developed and recorded for the online module of the new course entitled “Solar PV Planning and Installation”. • Senior Design Project [6] (four students, completed): “Solar-Powered Speed Radar Measurement, Display, and Logging System”. In this project, a solar PV system was designed to power a speed control system including a radar sensor, camera, microprocessor, and data logging system (Figure 10). • Senior Design Project (five students, in progress): “Solar-Tracking PV System Design and Development”. In this project, a PV system is designed and developed with the capability to track the sun based on two degrees of Figure 10. Solar-powered speed radar
, andassignment descriptions online [link blinded for peer review]. The curricular materialsand insights from this paper are interdisciplinary and transferable to many courses inBME and related fields.In order to make our curriculum more accessible to engineering educators who do nothave backgrounds in critical theory (and because we are not experts in these fieldsourselves), in this paper we do not provide an extensive background of critical theorieson race, gender, sexuality, or disability. However, we do recommend the followingresources: Donna Riley’s book, Engineering and Social Justice [1], The Center forCritical Race and Digital Theories [2], “Critical Race Theory: An Introduction” [3], andLangdon Winner’s “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” [4]. As we
used toengage underprepared students while creating an inclusive whole-group discussion. Theassessment of the pre-class preparation on student engagement and learning has been shown tobe impactful [34]. This course included a total of eight assignments over the course of thesemester. Three assignments required students to work with peer-reviewed scientific articles onair pollution health impacts, hazardous waste, and ethical case studies. Two assignments taskedstudents to do mini research: personal water footprint and waste analysis of a fast foodrestaurant. In addition, three purely pedagogical homework tasks were assigned to develop self-regulation of learning, such as syllabus review, letter to future self, and mid semester evaluation[32
areavailable at no cost online. Understanding the IM selection practices of STEM college instructorswould assist librarians in selecting more relevant materials for student use, aid publishers andproducers of OER in the development of new textbooks and other materials, and lead toimprovements in curated online collections of OER and other IM. However, these practices arenot well documented in the literature [4], [5], [6].Our research questions are: ● What criteria do STEM college instructors use when choosing instructional materials for students in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical science (STEM) courses? ● Where do instructors get information/suggestions for instructional materials?Literature ReviewRecent
collaboration between UMass Amherst and Southern Illinois University Carbondale [8] and both universities offered the course as a one-credit seminar in the Spring of 2016. The UMass course was listed in the online course registration catalog in mid-January 2016 and enrollment reached the capacity limit of 25 students within three weeks, indicating that there is strong student interest in the course. The course ran for 10 weeks, from the second week of February until the end of April
) is the lead author and primary data collector and teaching coordinator. SeanFerguson (California State University Channel Islands, CSUCI) has worked with all threemembers of the team in various capacities. As the syllabus suggests, this course aims to“promote engineering humanities education across borders” for the engineering studentsacross the two universities. During the course period, for the purpose of fostering adialogue-based classroom, each NYCU student will be paired with a UST partner to conductinterviews, homework assignments and a collaborative research project. Four teachingformats were used to facilitate the course progress:1. Synchronous Lectures: Synchronous GC was hosted by two instructors from NYCU and UST