Project title
THE CLEAR INITIATIVE: TO FOSTER DIGITAL CHANGES IN UNIVERSITY-LEVEL STEM EDUCATION AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT BY PROMOTING ACTIVE LEARNING
Funding
Host University
Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT), Japan
Research Goals and Significance
The goals of this project are to identify active learning strategies by high performance instructors in the online teaching environment, to test the effectiveness of a novel instruction model – CLEAR (create, learn, extend, apply, and remember), and to evaluate the active learning experience of students online. The research will provide guidance for promoting active learning in the online teaching environment, offer research evidence to prove or disapprove the CLEAR model as a new instruction model, and to test its potential to foster digital changes in undergraduate-level education and faculty development.
Japan is still under the strong influence of the pandemic and TUT in a while will continue to rely on online instruction to carry on with its educational activities. Therefore, to improve the online presentation of courses on the course management system and to integrate active learning into the online classrooms will increase the feasibility of self-regulated learning and raise the engagement level for at-home students. It will enable TUT to join the global conversation on the during-/post-pandemic education and contribute TUT experience and stories.
In short, the goals of this project are:
- Identify active learning strategies by high-performance instructors in the online teaching environment.
- Test the effectiveness of a novel instruction model – CLEAR.
- Evaluate the active learning experience of students online.
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