Preparing Students for Lifelong Learning

Preparing Students for Lifelong Learning: A Review of Instructional Methodologies

In a climate of rapid change, increasing innovation, and proliferating knowledge, lifelong learning is an important educational objective. Lifelong learning skills need to be developed if educators intend for their students to stay current in their fields. Staying abreast of new innovations, research, techniques, and information is a prerequisite for successful decision-making and problem-solvi...

Encouraging students to develop lifelong learning.

Lifelong Learning for Lifelong Employment

SOMEONE ASKED ME recently, “How do we keep 40-year-old software developers employed?” At rst I was puzzled. I had little clue this was a problem. Isn’t there more demand than supply for software developers? However, imagine a software developer who graduates from a good engineering school and gets a good job in a large high-tech company. He marries and raises a family, is good at barbecue, runs...

Preparing Students for Calculus

This quantitative study compared the implementation of a problem-based curriculum in precalculus and a modular-style implementation of traditional curriculum in precalculus to the historical instructional methods at a western Tier 2 public university. The goal of the study was to determine if either alternative approach improved student performance in precalculus and better prepared students fo...

Extracurricular Design-Based Learning: Preparing Students for Careers in Innovation*

Government and industry depend on educational institutions to play a pivotal role in preparing the future workforce for careers in innovation. Yet students learn how to innovate through practice, and opportunities for practice are limited in higher education. This paper addresses this challenge by presenting a new student-led approach to innovation education called Extracurricular Design-Based ...