Paper ID #43908Learning from Experience: A Faculty-Led Collaborative Inquiry ExploringEvidence-Based Strategies for Embedding Communication Skills Across EngineeringCurriculaDr. Ashley R Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Dr. Ashley Taylor (she/her) is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. Her teaching and research focus on mobilizing engineering students to solve pressing real-world challenges through community-based participatory approaches. Taylor has partnered alongside communities in rural Appalachia, Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania
performancewas particularly prevalent among collaborative and cooperative learning, with several referencesto group challenges with students ‘slacking off’ and being ‘free riders’ as well as ‘one studentdoing all the work’ and ‘dominating’ teams. In other words, faculty participants expressedchallenges with managing group dynamics and student relationships that consumed timeotherwise needed for coursework and inconsistent outcomes for students based on their roles intheir assigned groups. According to one participant describing challenges to collaborativelearning: “Group dynamics are always challenging, and a significant amount of time is spent with "relationship" work, and managing the collaboration, rather than with the assigned
identification of burnout as an occupational risk for educators [13] is not a newdiscovery, however. Recognizing the negative impact exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy couldhave on teachers as well as their students, Maslach and Leiter [14],[15] have researched itextensively for more than 20 years. Unlike college professors who are motivated and energizedby students [16], Maslach and Leiter [15] described individuals suffering from exhaustion asbeing characterized as depleted, fatigued, and lacking energy. Not surprisingly, studies havereported negative correlations between emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction [11], [17], [18].While the impact that burnout and low levels of job satisfaction have on faculty includes avariety of subpar performance
creating inclusive learning environments that support all students success. Dr. Subi˜no Sullivan earned her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Indiana University in 2012 and had taught courses in anthropology, near peer mentoring and teaching and learning in higher education at multiple institutions in the US.Lance Matthew Crawford ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Rapid Change to Refined Teaching: lessons learned and lasting impacts the COVID-19 pandemic had on how we teach engineering.Authors: Boni F. Yraguen, Lance M. Crawford, Carol Subiño Sullivan, Adam M. SteinbergAbstract This research paper will assess the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on learningstrategies
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that utilize a WATPS are more competitive in the global workforce[3], [5], [6]. However, there is reluctance to adopt a WATPS due to a lack of class time, time toprepare, and incentives; student resistance; and the faculty researcher/teacher identity tension [7],[8], [9], [10].A forced change requires instructors to adapt their teaching practices. Forced changes comeabout as a result of pandemics and natural and humanitarian disasters as well as accreditationmodifications and department and university unilateral academic policy decisions. In all of theseexamples of forced change, the motivation for change is external and may be time sensitive. Oneexample of a forced change was the COVID-19 pandemic; it provided an external reason