To better prepare students for the innovative digital workplace of the future, educators should strive to improve students’ critical thinking and collaboration skills. One of the many ways to do so is ...

A large, international study shows that problem-based learning is more effective than standard instruction in math and science, and a national survey confirms that students, parents and teachers all ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can project-based learning be used in math class? Project-based learning is a popular instructional strategy for many subjects, though it is not used as much in ...

The return to project-based learning, paired with today's AI tools, has created a new learning paradigm. Here, Mark Frydenberg, distinguished lecturer of Computer Information Systems and director of ...

Pre-med students in a Biology course measure urban air quality in collaboration with citizen-scientists from the local community; students in a 300-level Business seminar design improvements to a ...

Education experts are encouraging schools to consider problem-based learning (PBL) in a move to improve engagement and creativity among high school students. New research demonstrates how hands-on, ...

The days of hands-on projects left college students’ minds years ago, replaced with sleep deprivation and cramming for midterms. But that’s not how it should be. With the school’s outstanding rankings ...

Top 10 of 2021: Tools for project-based learning can augment impactful lessons that help students develop key life skills Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this ...

The basic premise of the flipped classroom is that class time is best spent on active learning and higher order thinking, while content delivery can successfully take place outside of the classroom. A ...

Janet B. Walton is Senior Research Scholar at North Carolina State University’s College of Education. She is a co-editor of the STEM Road Map curriculum series, a series of books that provides project ...