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  • Distance learning applied to control engineering education

    Creator:
    Aktan, Burçin
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    At the College of Engineering, Oregon State University, we have successfully developed and demonstrated a distance learning application utilizing emerging communications technologies in a new way to allow control engineering teaching laboratories to be accessed remotely. Second Best to Being There (SBBT) provides the remote user with all the capabilities...
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    Hall, "A multimedia pedagogues: Interactive systems for teaching and learning", IEEE Computer, pp. 74

  • Generalizing the Idea Garden : Principles and Contexts

    Creator:
    Jernigan, William
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    In previous work, the Idea Garden was created to help those relatively new to programming overcome their barriers in CoScripter. The goal of this thesis was to generalize the Idea Garden's success to other users and environments. We present a set of principles on how to help EUPs like this...
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    and empirically in- vestigate the principles in two studies: a formative think-aloud study and a pair

  • Utilizing emergent web-based software tools as an effective method for increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing in collocated student design teams

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    Koch, Michael D.
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    Over the last few decades, the methods and tools through which humans collaborate, share knowledge and generally communicate have been advancing at a rapid pace. Thanks mostly to advances in broadband internet, cheap data storage and fast microprocessors, humans now have the ability to work together in ways that even...
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    knowledge. This study was completed using students from Oregon State University and Humboldt State

  • Children's conceptions of nature as influenced by a residential environmental education program

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    Rebar, Bryan M.
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    The majority of research in environmental education (EE) has focused on measuring knowledge, attitudes, and behavior using quantitative tools and methods. Few studies have attempted to elicit and characterize children's conceptions of the environment or nature, particularly those resulting from a residential EE experience, which contextualize knowledge, attitudes, and may...
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    conceptual learning in the context of a guided outdoor program. This study begins to address this relative

  • A Study on the Effect of Non-Traditional Demographic Populations in an Undergraduate Computer Science Course

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    Kawell, Christopher L.
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    There is a significant amount of research analyzing the effect of race, gender, and other common demographical data on student interest and performance in computer science. However, there is relatively little research concerning less common demographic populations, such as introverts, artistic students, and visual learners. This study investigates if these...
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    computer science program is part of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the

  • Uses of microcomputers to enchance precalculus mathematics

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    Ivey, Kathy M. C.
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    Microcomputers are being used in teaching and learning mathematics. This paper examines ways that computers can be used to enhance teaching in precalculus mathematics. The advantages of computers discussed are: 1) instant access to graphs, 2) examples that are not oversimplified to make computations manageable, 3) encouragement of hypothesizing and...
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    and some problems of computer use in mathematics teaching. I will show that computers can be

  • Studies to inform a visual language for authoring interactive exercise prescriptions

    Creator:
    Dodge, Jonathan E.
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    Communicating dynamic motion content, such as exercise, with a static medium, such as paper, is difficult. The technology exists for presenting 3D animated exercise content to patients; however, the tools for allowing exercise domain experts to effectively author the content do not exist. We conducted two formative studies with exercise...
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    performed a think-aloud study to understand its strengths and weaknesses. The results of our studies have

  • The peer interview methodology : participatory qualitative interviewing and discussion in a youth garden project

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    Lile, Joy R.
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    The Producing for the Future project engaged thirty low-income youth in gardening and nutrition education, microenterprise activities, and participatory research during the 2011 and 2012 growing seasons. The intervention aimed to support community protective factors, build positive youth development, and enhance health outcomes through promoting skill-building and mentorship. The mixedmethods...
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    and mentorship. The mixed- methods approach to program evaluation included interviews, focus groups

  • Head start parent education to promote positive parent-child feeding relationships

    Creator:
    Huang, Yu-Chi
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    Studies have shown that parental feeding practice has an impact on the child's dietary intake, food preference and weight status. Our study focused on teaching parents the division of responsibility in parent-child feeding relationship as well as benefits of eating meals together, since feeding practice takes place during the mealtime....
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    preference and weight status. Our study focused on teaching parents the division of responsibility in

  • TekBots : a platform for learning to revitalize undergraduate engineering education

    Creator:
    Heer, Donald
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    In 2000 the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Oregon State University began a new and innovative program named TekBots[superscript TM]. This program was created to solve the problems of students in existing undergraduate engineering education not having sufficient skill when graduating in six program educational objectives; Depth, Breadth, Professionalism,...
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    Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Oregon State University began a new and innovative program