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Greg Placencia, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Pauline Salim Muljana, Old Dominion University

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Paper ID #27805The Effects of Online Course Design on Student Course SatisfactionProf. Greg Placencia, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Assistant professor Greg Placencia joined the IME department in 2016 and currently teaches Fundamen- tals of Human Factors Engineering lecture and lab, Fiscal Implications in Technical Decision Making, Advanced Human Factors in Engineering Design, and Human Systems Interaction. Dr. Placencia re- ceived his Ph.D. degree from University of Southern California in 2009. His research interests include human engineering, human–systems interaction, and adapting macro-ergonomics to

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Zhen Yu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Ha Thu Le, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

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syllabus would not suit all projects andall teams. Therefore, we developed a general framework for the course. Then, based on thegeneral framework, each instructor develops a customized syllabus for a particular project.The general framework is as follows: 1) The course is a 1-unit class that comprises a team-based technical project component and a service learning component. It is an activity course, i.e. it may include classroom meetings, lab-based design, service learning, and other appropriate activities to meet the course learning outcomes. 2) The course learning outcomes (CLO) are specific for each project but must satisfy both the technical and service learning requirements

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Xi Zhou, Northern Arizona University; Fang Lei, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Delbert D Willie, Northern Arizona University; Andrew Chrysler, Northern Arizona University; Liangbo Xie, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Phillip A Mlsna, Northern Arizona University; Jie Yang, Northern Arizona University

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methodologies and students learning styleFor most NAU faculty, teaching in a Chinese university is a very special experience. There arealso well-known differences between the Chinese and U.S. education systems10,11,12. It is ofinterest to illustrate some of these distinctions between higher education systems.First, to a certain degree, the CQUPT education is still very much final exam-oriented, and this isreflected by comparing the course syllabus from both universities. In most CQUPT courses, thestudent’s performance is evaluated through a mid-term exam and final exam. It is very commonthat the final exam grade accounts for at least 50% of a student’s total grade and in many casesas high as 70%. On the contrary, the NAU or U.S. teaching philosophy

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Farbod Khoshnoud; Dario Robinson; Bruno Marco Quadrelli; Clarence W De Silva

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objectives for the community and deeper understanding for themselves” ([13],[14]). “Students, Community Partners, and Instructors are key players in developing effectiveservice-learning activities. Service-learning is connected to course content and is organized aroundclear learning goals; service-learning provides meaningful service activities which address realcommunity needs as defined by the community; and service-learning provides studentsopportunities for critical reflection upon their service experiences” ([13], [14]). Service-Learningmay be considered as an Active learning activity [15] where students are fully engaged throughoutthe learning process. Another benefit of research-led activities is the inherent prevention of plagiarism

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Durul Ulutan, California State University, Northridge

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are used to receiving the syllabus and reading the grading scheme thatis prepared for them. Students were told that by the start of the second class, they have to let theinstructor know via email if they would like to change their grading scheme. If not contacted, theinstructor would assume they are keeping the original scheme. Many students (7 out of 17) optedto keep the original grading scheme for many reasons they have voiced in addition to reasonsthey potentially did not declare. Reasons they shared with the instructor included trusting theinstructor’s judgement, feeling anxious and not confident in changing their assessment since theyare not used to doing it, and not having sufficient information about assessment types. Theinstructor