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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Why Students Leave Engineering and Built Environment Programmes When They Are Academically Eligible to Continue
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Ahmed, Nazeema; Kloot, Bruce; Collier-Reed, Brandon I. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
The retention of students to graduation is a concern for most higher education institutions. This article seeks to understand why engineering and built environment students fail to continue their degree programmes despite being academically eligible to do so. The sample comprised 275 students registered between 2006 and 2011 in a faculty of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Engineering, Engineering Education
The Influence of Podcasting on Student Learning: A Case Study across Two Courses
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Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Case, Jennifer M.; Stott, Angela – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2013
There is a growing literature on the educational benefits of using podcasting of lectures in higher education, but to date little research that interrogates closely its impact on student learning. The present study investigated how students used lecture podcasts produced in two engineering courses at a South African university. The findings…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Influence of Technology, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
The Experience of Interacting with Technological Artefacts
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Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Case, Jennifer M.; Linder, Cedric – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
This article reports on an investigation into the different ways that pupils interact with technological artefacts. The results are discussed in the context of the need for first-year "introduction to engineering" courses to develop ways to provide students with an environment that facilitates their meaningful interaction with technological…
Descriptors: Interaction, Interviews, Foreign Countries, Phenomenology
Learning as Acquiring a Discursive Identity through Participation in a Community: Improving Student Learning in Engineering Education
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Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
In this paper, we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities