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Lu Zhang, Qian Li, Wei Liu
With the development of world globalization, English plays an increasingly important role. English is the international language used in foreign communication, so English learning has become more and more important. Therefore, the innovation and research of College English teaching has become a hot spot in the field of…
Jingkuang Liu, Yanqing Yi, Xuetong Wang
Many factors affect the teaching of massively open online courses (MOOCs). In this study, to explore the factors that influence the effective teaching of MOOCs, a large number of relevant studies are analyzed. Based on grounded theory, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 students and teachers who used…
R.P. Love, Edith Law, Philip R. Cohen, Dana Kulić
—Conversational teachable agents offer a promising platform to support learning, both in the classroom and in remote settings. In this context, the agent takes the role of the novice, while the student takes on the role of teacher. This framing is significant for its ability to elicit the Protégé effect in the…
Angxuan Chen, Wei Y, Huixiao Le, Zhang Yan
on programming education Authors: ['Angxuan Chen' 'Wei Y' 'Huixiao Le' 'Zhang Yan'] This study investigates the potential of using ChatGPT as a teachable agent to support students' learning by teaching process, specifically in programming education. While learning by teaching is an effective pedagogical strategy for…
Shangmou Xu, Vicente Velasco, Mariah J. Hill, Elisa Tran + 31 more
We updated a recent meta-analysis of active learning’s impact on student achievement in undergraduate STEM courses by following the same protocol to evaluate studies published from 2010-2017. We screened 1659 papers, coded 1294, and found 210 that met five pre-established inclusion criteria and six pre-established…
Yu Xie, Yang Liu, Fengrui Zhang, Ping Zhou
Globalization and informatization are reshaping human life and social behaviors. The purpose is to explore the worldwide strategies to cultivate international talents with a global vision. As a global language with the largest population, English, and especially its learning effect, have always been the major concerns…
Hai-Long Sun, Ting Sun, Feng-Yi Sha, Xiao-Yu Gu + 3 more
'Fei-Yan Zhu' 'Pei-Tao Fang'] During the COVID-19 pandemic, online education has become an important approach to learning in the information era and an important research topic in the field of educational technology as well as that of education in general. Teacher-student interaction in online education is an important…
Carmen-María Fernández-García, Ridwan Maulana, Mercedes Inda-Caro, Michelle Helms-Lorenz + 1 more
'Michelle Helms-Lorenz' 'Omar García-Pérez'] The purpose of this study was to examine student perceptions of teaching behavior. Additionally the aim was to examine if teacher characteristics (educational level, gender, and teaching experience) could explain differences in student perceptions of their teachers. Teaching…
Carlos Frankl Sperber, Neucir Szinwelski, Frederico Fernandes Ferreira, Lucas Ferreira Paiva + 6 more
We evaluated the effectiveness of active learning for ecology teaching in a Brazilian university by comparing the perspective of students to their grades in exams. We estimated the perspective of the students through anonymous survey; we used students’ exam grades to estimate their ecology learning, and their effort…
Yanhui Feng, Luqing Wang
Preschool teachers’ ability and willingness to adopt scientific practice teaching are affected by internal and external factors. A question therefore arises: Do organizational incentives, as an external environmental factor (extrinsic motivation), strengthen or weaken the effect of science beliefs (internal factor) on…
Rebecca Brunk, Kriti Shukla, Bryant Hutson, Yue Wang + 7 more
Genomic sequencing and other big biological data is unquestionably of paramount value, however the success in recruiting highly skilled individuals with diverse backgrounds has been limited. A main reason for this deficiency could be due to the lack of educational resources and early exposure to the field. With the…
Jingmeiqi Ye, Xiaobo Liu, Jun Wei, Yu Zhang
Interest has always been an important research object in the field of education. Moreover, understanding the role of interest in students’ classroom learning is conducive to teaching practices. By constructing a theoretical model of interest based on relevant theories and prior empirical evidence, this study examined…
Ken Jen Lee, Apoorva Chauhan, Joslin Goh, Elizabeth S. Nilsen + 1 more
'Edith Law'] While learning by teaching is a popular pedagogical technique, it is a learning phenomenon that is difficult to study due to variability in the tutor-tutee pairings and learning environments. In this paper, we introduce the Curiosity Notebook, a web-based research infrastructure for studying learning by…
Ilia Sucholutsky, Katherine M. Collins, Maya Malaviya, Nori Jacoby + 10 more
'Weiyang Liu' 'Theodore R. Sumers' 'Michalis Korakakis' 'Umang Bhatt' 'Mark K. Ho' 'Joshua B. Tenenbaum' 'Brad Love' 'Zachary A. Pardos' 'Adrian Weller' 'Thomas L. Griffiths'] Ilia Sucholutsky∗ Princeton University Katherine M. Collins∗ University of Cambridge Maya Malaviya Stevens Institute of Technology Nori Jacoby…
Jiying Han, Chao Gao, Jing Yang
This study investigated the relationships between university EFL teachers' perceived teaching support, teacher innovation, and teaching satisfaction in online teaching environments, especially the mediating role of teaching efficacy. The results of an online questionnaire survey with 473 university EFL teachers…
Jindan Huang, Isaac Sheidlower, Reuben M. Aronson, Elaine Schaertl Short
'Elaine Schaertl Short'] Human-in-the-loop learning is gaining popularity, particularly in the field of robotics, because it leverages human knowledge about real-world tasks to facilitate agent learning. When people instruct robots, they naturally adapt their teaching behavior in response to changes in robot…
Xinjian Cen, Rachel J. Lee, Christopher Contreras, Melinda T. Owens + 1 more
Active learning, including student thinking and discussion in class, has been shown to increase student learning gains. However, it is less clear how variations in how instructors implement active learning affect student gains. Our study aims to investigate the extent to which the time spent on individual episodes of…
Gerda Hagenauer, Franziska Muehlbacher, Christoph Helm, Christoph Weber
Teacher cooperation takes many different forms, including team teaching, where teachers share the full responsibility for a class of students. Numerous advantages are attributed to teacher cooperation, including support for teacher professionalization, increased focus on students' needs and emotional relief. However…
Timothy Gould
This study examined factors influencing student confidence and their perception of learning in the context of undergraduate chemistry and biochemistry courses. Anonymous online surveys were used to measure the extent to which small group work influenced student confidence in solving problems compared to working…
Jordan C. Thompson, James H. Griffin, Renée Link
Multimedia approaches, including short instructional videos, are complementary to traditional modes of instruction such as in-person lecture and written procedures. We describe the creation and implementation of Quick Reference (QR) instructional videos in an undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory (OCL) setting for…
Lucie Denisart, Diana Zapata-Dominguez, Xavier David, Aubin Leclere + 5 more
The manufacturing process of batteries can be complex and time-consuming. We introduce a new version of the digital twin of our lithium ion battery pilot line, Simubat 4.0 Gen-2, based on a new combination of Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality. This digital twin is designed to deliver training on the lithium-ion battery…
Szu Szu Ling, Fabrice Saffre, Deborah L. Gater, Lilia Halim + 1 more
Computer quiz games are introduced to improve teaching and learning in a freshman engineering chemistry course in an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) environment. These quiz games are developed and implemented as a supplemental and augmentative tool to enhance traditionally delivered lectures. The paper shows an…
Jiao Liu, Ke Wang, Zilong Pan, Kathryn L. Fletcher
This meta-analysis reports on the effect of professional development (PD) on K-12 in-service STEM teachers’ self-efficacy. There were 18 selected empirical studies in this study. Overall, PD had a modest positive effect on self-efficacy (Hedges’g = 0.551, 95% CI [0.285, 0.704], SE = 0.107) under the random-effects…
Ronald Marquez, Laura Tolosa, Ruben Gomez, Cesar Izaguirre + 3 more
The teaching-learning process in traditional university education uses strategies that position the student as a recipient of information conveyed by the teacher and conceptualized as knowledge. The reality in which we live, including the characteristics of new generational groups, requires the generation of training…
Yuanqi Du, Chenru Duan, Andres Bran, Anna Sotnikova + 5 more
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated outstanding capabilities in general problem-solving and been shown to improve productivity in certain domains. Thanks to their flexibility, recent work has leveraged them for diverse scientific applications, ranging from predictive modeling, scientific Q&A, and even as…
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Reinvigoration of electrochemical education is important for the support of decarbonised economies and net zero climate change targets. Here, explicit instruction and fuel cell engineering are used to exemplify electrochemical science as a platform for teaching a variety of interdisciplinary concepts while addressing…