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How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

In addition, we found that problem-based learning, using specific real -world problems, did not work well in my classes as every semester had a different local problem supplied. The way I did this was to have each student submit a written weekly page minimum response showing how they applied that weeks concept.

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Problem-based learning helped boost my underserved students’ engagement

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With sports being canceled, I was searching for new avenues to engage my students when I came across the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest, a program encouraging problem-based learning.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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Real-World, Meaningful Problems This kind of scenario — linking the drama of mountaineering with work on percentages in middle school math — can effectively be used in a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in the classroom. And that's how people learn math. You may have heard a lot about PBL in recent years.

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Why we should be teaching students economic literacy

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Related : 3 reasons literacy is essential in child development How problem-based learning helped boost my underserved students’ engagement.

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How 3D printing is changing education

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Amid this technology-driven educational environment, 3D printing offers students the following: helping to facilitate differentiated instruction, increasing student engagement, expanding practice opportunities, and scaling up standardized instruction. No More One-Size-Fits-All Teaching. Increased Student Engagement.

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

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Unlike the end-of-semester feedback, when gathering formative feedback on what’s helping or hindering student learning might be too late, mid-term analysis of our teaching and student learning may help motivate students and enhance their learning. Case studies are a common teaching strategy.

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Recovering Student Engagement at Mid-course Time

Faculty Focus

Unlike the end-of-semester feedback, when gathering formative feedback on what’s helping or hindering student learning might be too late, mid-term analysis of our teaching and student learning may help motivate students and enhance their learning. Case studies are a common teaching strategy.