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Handle With Care, Ellen Hazelkorn
Handle With Care, Ellen Hazelkorn
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This article discusses the impact of rankings on higher education.
Assessment Formats: Student Preferences And Perceptions, Mairéad Seymour, Shannon Chance
Assessment Formats: Student Preferences And Perceptions, Mairéad Seymour, Shannon Chance
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This paper provides a student perspective on the variety of forms of design critique available to educators. In architecture and landscape architecture, the design jury remains the dominant format for providing feedback to students. In recent years this format has come under scrutiny and its effectiveness called into question. However, little research has been done into the variety of alternative or supplemental formats available to educators. This paper explores an array of techniques that the authors have employed in design studio courses (which include techniques suggested by students in Webster’s 2007 article in the Journal of Architectural Education). These include …
Harmonizing Technology With Interaftion In Blended Problem-Based Learning, Roisin Donnelly
Harmonizing Technology With Interaftion In Blended Problem-Based Learning, Roisin Donnelly
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This paper discusses the harmonizing role of technology and interaction in a qualitative study on blended 22 problem-based learning within the context of academic development in higher education. Within this 23 setting, and as both designers and tutors in blended PBL, it is important to seek best practices for how 24 to combine instructional strategies in face-to-face and computer-mediated environments that take 25 advantage of the strengths of each and avoid their weaknesses. A qualitative study of the lived experi- 26 ences of 17 academic staff participants in a blended problem-based learning module was considered 27 likely to provide a …
Learning By Doing: An Experience With Outcomes Assessment, Mary Crossley, Lu-In Wang
Learning By Doing: An Experience With Outcomes Assessment, Mary Crossley, Lu-In Wang
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An emphasis on assessment and outcomes measures is a drum beat that is growing louder in American legal education. Prompted initially by the demands of regional university accreditation bodies, the attention paid to outcomes assessment is now growing with the forecast that the ABA will revise its accreditation standards to incorporate outcomes measures. For the past three years, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law has been developing a system for assessing the learning outcomes of its students. By describing our experience here at Pitt Law, with both its high and low points, we hope to suggest some helpful pointers …