Investigating graduate and non-graduate teachers’ views about educational

Graduate and Undergraduate Educational Methods for Microelectronics

Methods applicable to teaching microelectronics at the undergraduate and graduate level in conjunction with an industrial fabrication capability are presented. Results of three semesters of teaching microelectronics at the graduate level with emphasis on both digital and analog circuits are summarized. Plans for teaching an undergraduate course utilizing the fabrication of integrated circuits a...

Investigating Non-Native English Speaking Graduate Students’ Pragmatic Development in Requestive Emails

The present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. Most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native English speaking students’ (NNESs) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native English speaking students (NESs) and compared learners ...

How can the design of educational technologies affect graduate students' epistemologies about learning?

This paper describes a course in which graduate students learn practical and theoretical aspects of educational-design. The course was enacted with 14 students in education. Outcomes illustrate tensions between students' professed beliefs about learning and their actual design practices in four dimensions that characterize the technologies they designed: Learner-activity, Collaboration, Autonom...

Changing trends in residents-as-teachers across graduate medical education

BACKGROUND Teaching residents how to teach is a critical part of residents' training in graduate medical education (GME). The purpose of this study was to assess the change in resident-as-teacher (RaT) instruction in GME over the past 15 years in the US. METHODS We used a quantitative and qualitative survey of all program directors (PDs) across specialties. We compared our findings with a pre...

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