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Flipped classroom is an emerging pedagogical model with potentials to support active engagement and improve student performance. This research empirically validate the impact of: 1) Flipped classroom on student performance; and 2) Preferred learning style on student performance in a flipped classroom. We designed an experiment to compare the performance of students in flipped classroom with traditional...
The abstract is the quintessential technical writing genre, because abstract writing involves judiciously selecting content and conveying such content in lean, focused writing. This study tested the efficacy of the structured abstract content framework, proposed by Hartley, in the teaching of abstract writing in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Subject-matter experts and a technical editor...
The document targets towards analysis current braille characters, emphasis it's insufficiencies at instructing approaches aimed at little kids with recommend apparent results. This document concentrates largely upon the practice of braille and typography collectively with the fundamental braille writing system and is essential for constructive progress in association for blind kids. The principal...
While assessing electric circuit homework assignments in an Electrical Engineering program at West Virginia University, it is sometimes difficult to follow students' logic and thinking process. When instructors grade homework assignments, they only see what is written down on paper. Most students neglect to write out their thoughts, which can cause difficulty in comprehending why they choose a particular...
The correcting process for strokes extracted from Chinese characters is the necessary step to extract the errors of writing errors automatically. Visualization of extracted strokes is the prerequisite for manual correction. Therefore, visualization and adaptive correction methods are proposed. To reduce the cognitive burden of correcting, color, brightness, saturation and order number is comprehensively...
The way research methods course has been taught across disciplines was a combination of hands-on experience and research activities. The applied activities came in different forms such as conducting literature review, applying peer review, writing papers, etc. In class activities, which are outside the silo of research methods, are not widely popular. The activity in mind is the “Marshmallow Challenge”...
Today the ability to monitor and evaluate the performance of team members and identify their strengths and weaknesses is highly crucial in any organizational role. Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) are adopting different strategies in their teaching curricula and assessment methods to encourage the development of team management skills among graduates, one of which is peer assessment. It is an important...
A child needs education to mold how it sees and learns the world. We have to cater their needs and help them learn, but 1 in 10 children suffer from a learning disability and 1 in 20 people are affected all over the world. Children suffering from a learning disability might face difficulties with reading, writing or mathematics but they excel in other areas of interests. It is in the interest of the...
Students' reflective writings are useful not only for students themselves but also teachers. It is important for teachers to know which concepts were understood well by students and which concepts were not, to continuously improve their classes. However, it is difficult for teachers to thoroughly read the journals of more than one hundred students. In this paper, we propose a novel method to extract...
Fake news—false stories that mimic real research or journalism and spread quickly online—and our awareness of it has proliferated in the months leading up to and following the 2016 presidential election. This workshop will help instructors of technical and professional writing define fake news for their students, identify the ways social media lends ethos to fake news, and give students a consistent...
Practitioner research in technical communication differs from general or academic research. Technical communication students need to develop abilities to conduct research into subject matter, audience, and communication approaches within workplace contexts to meet situated needs. This article explores differences between the two realms of research and discusses implications for teaching practitioner...
Research has provided strong evidence on the impact of extensive reading on foreign/second language acquisition in nearly all aspects. But simply providing students books to read does not tell much about how it actually happens. Blogging after reading serves to present clues to the inquiries: how readers interact with texts, how students grow during the course of self-paced reading, how students make...
This paper argues that the technical communication survey course occupies a unique position as a humanistic methods course obviously connected to the major disciplines of an institution's students. Humanistic technical communication pedagogy can thereby be used to organize or rationalize other humanistic interventions in the curriculum, especially with STEM majors. Examples are described for two approaches...
To solve the professional challenges they will face upon graduation, mechanical engineering (ME) graduates must be able to ask the right questions, think critically, and communicate their ideas effectively. Traditionally, the ME curriculum has relied on design courses, especially capstone design, to achieve these objectives. This brief paper will describe a new approach developed within a small public...
In professional communication service courses, students are often taught with textbooks or assignments that embody tensions between Shannon and Weaver's transmission model of communication versus more rhetorical concepts of purpose, audience, and context. I present three introductory business communication assignments designed to teach students to consider their writing choices and the functions of...
Undergraduate students struggle with how to tailor messages adequately for their intended audiences. The use and complexity of technology in healthcare continues to increase. However, little research has looked at tailoring messages in biomedical engineering technology communication contexts. In these contexts, communication about the effective use of technology is critical to patient health, and...
Mercer University's Department of Technical Communication has continuously moved away from established currents to create new ones that aid in making learning most effective. This paper presents three approaches to continuous innovation: innovations in teaching freshman writing as a general education course located in engineering, improving teaming strategies through strategic metacommunication, and...
In traditional teaching, teachers transmit knowledge, and students receive the information passively in the classroom. There are few opportunities as well as proper situations for students to apply the acquired knowledge, in other words, students do not know how to use what they have learned in their daily lives. In this study, we designed a system for learning by authoring scripts, setting stage,...
The research study and compare the effectiveness between Problem-Based Blended Learning (PBBL) and traditional learning method by focusing on academic writing skills of the undergraduate English major students at Chiang Rai Rajabhat University. The study was a descriptive and experimental research. The effectiveness was divided into two main parts. First, the scores from individual work and group...
The higher education through virtual environment is students centered oriented to the interactive learning, in situations to be closer to the real world; for that reason, teachers must have new communicative competences, nonverbal and with a learning innovative approach which allows to guide their students in the complex process of acquiring knowledge even more in a foreign language. In the same context,...
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