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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Loukas Lazos; Elmer Grubbs

track of the students’ progress on a set of interactive exerciseslisted at the end of each section and of the number of each student’s attempts until an exercise iscorrectly completed. We use the results of these exercises to give a participation grade to thestudents. In addition to the online book, the course has a main website where the syllabus,lectures, etc. are stored (see Figure 2) and an enhanced discussion board website called Piazza(see Figure 3) that implements a class discussion forum between students, instructors, TAs, andULAs. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Mary Cardenas

designed tofacilitate the delivery of on-line course content; support the electronic interaction betweeninstructors and students; serve as a repository (a dropbox) for student work; and providegradebook functions which allows instructors to enter grades, and students to receive the gradesand instructor comments. Chat, blog, and forum functions are usually a part of a CMS. Woernerused a combination of common academic software and the Blackboard online coursemanagement system as an ELN in an advanced undergraduate Chemistry lab at DukeUniversity6. The students used Microsoft Word and graphing software to ‘create’ their labnotebook components. Once their work was written, the students submitted their electronic filesinto the dropbox of Blackboard

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

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.................................................................................................................................................................................... 10High Impact Learning Practice through Group Research on Thermoelectric Energy ConversionNanomaterials ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11Improving Student Learning of Basic Electric Circuits Concepts Using Current Technology ................ 17Teaching and Learning of Database Concepts Using Multimode Teaching Methodologies .................... 24Translating Best Practices for Student Engagement to Online STEAM Courses ......................................... 32Teaching Pattern Recognition: A Multidisciplinary Experience ........................................................................ 44Research and