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Leadership In Student Distance Education Teams, Leroy Cox, Susan L. Murray, David Spurlock
Leadership In Student Distance Education Teams, Leroy Cox, Susan L. Murray, David Spurlock
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
Interactive video technology has become a widely used medium for education. A prominent implementation of this technology, interactive distance learning, involves groups of students at local and remote sites connected by audio and video teleconferencing. This approach has made the task of delivering vital undergraduate and graduate engineering courses to distributed audiences much easier. As this approach has permeated more curricula, distance education instructors have increasingly assigned projects that require distance learners to work together as an element of the final course grade. This trend presents an interesting opportunity for researchers to understand the nature of interactions among course participants …
Applying Informal Cooperative Learning Groups Techniques In The Classroom, Susan L. Murray
Applying Informal Cooperative Learning Groups Techniques In The Classroom, Susan L. Murray
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
The application of informal cooperative learning (CL) groups techniques in the courses including operation research, and computer simulation, is discussed. The informal CL activities can be accomplished in small groups consisting of two or three students. It increases student participation and revitalizing passive lecturers. Students work example problems or homework problems in groups.