In the realm of higher education, e-learning has emerged as a game-changer, reshaping the way students engage with their studies. The purpose of this study
Maria Dykema Erb, director of the Newbury Center at Boston University in Massachusetts, a resource for first-gen students, recommends that students apply for as many scholarships as possible. “I encourage students, even if they see just a $500 scholarship – the...
the university, which has about 29,000 undergraduates at its main Atlanta campus, according to U.S. News data, began using predictive analytics to identify students who were at risk of stalling academically and
Case in point: Undergraduates at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering first earn a bachelor of arts degree, with its foundation in the broader liberal arts, before going on to earn a bachelor’s degree in engineering. In 2016, Thayer was among the first undergraduate engineering programs in...
Active learning strategies: I'm struggling to engage all students in my lecture hall of [number] undergraduates. As an expert in active learning pedagogies for higher education, suggest [number] strategies for promoting active learning in this large classroom setting. Consider approaches that leverage...
device design For an early introduction to the method's use in both biomedical and engineering fields, reverse engineering is commonly taught to biomedical undergraduates at Vanderbilt University,...Jean Thilmany
(LEAP), a master’s degree program designed for adults in their twenties and thirties who have an undergraduate degree in a field other than engineering. These students take core classes alongside undergraduates to meet their pre-requisite requirements, and from there earn their master's degree ...
In one experiment, University of Louisville psychologist Keith Lyle taught the same statistics course to two groups of undergraduates. For the first group, Lyle asked the students to complete a four- to six-question quiz at the end of each lecture. The quiz was based on material he’d just...
“There are several organizations where medical students and undergraduates will partner with hospitals and clinics, and their job is to help identify resources that patients might need,” Goodell says. At Socially Responsible Surgery, an organization committed to health equ...
“There are several organizations where medical students and undergraduates will partner with hospitals and clinics, and their job is to help identify resources that patients might need,” Goodell says. At Socially Responsible Surgery, an organization committed to health equity, volunteer...