During October 2014, I spent a week at Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) for a workshop sponsored by the German Ministry of Education & Research on modeling and measuring competencies in higher education. (KoKoHS) With my colleagues, Leigh Graves Wolf and Jon Good from Michigan State University we collaborated with two…
Yadav, A., Vinh, M., Shaver, G., Meckl, P., & Rose, S. (2014). Case-based Instruction: Improving students’ conceptual understanding through cases in a mechanical engineering course. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 51 (5), 659-677, doi: 10.1002/tea.21149 Recently, there has been a push within engineering curricula to adopt more learner-centered pedagogies, such as case-based…
I am the PI on a newly funded project to develop an evidence-based professional development (PD) program for computer science teachers. The goal of this project is to improve teachers’ knowledge to teach computer science, with a special focus on the effective training of teachers having limited computer science background.…
Farahmand, F., Yadav, A., & Spafford, E. H. (2013) Characterizing risks in virtual worlds: A learning technology Application. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, doi: 10.1007/s12528-013-9067-5 Virtual worlds present tremendous advantages to cyberlearning. For example, in virtual worlds users can socialize with others, build objects and share them, customize parts…