Collaborative Parsons Problems in a Remote-learning First-year Engineering Classroom

GIFTS: Learning Theory Workshop Led to First-Year Classroom Innovations

“…Parson's problems [26] are one activity which give students completed lines of code and task them with arranging the lines into a working program. We have already increased the frequency of these activities to weekly [27], [28], but we are also brainstorming structural changes which would implement this idea on a more fundamental level. Functions are traditionally a more advanced topic presented later in the semester, but they also contain analogies to sentence structure.…”

Work in progress: Creating micromoments to develop a student’s entrepreneurial mindset

“…• We reviewed the published KEEN Card database to identify and modify activities to be implemented in 2-30 minutes [8]. A KEEN Card includes instructions and resources so that faculty and instructors who use the Engineering Unleashed platform can adapt this activity for their own courses [6]. Not all KEEN Cards were reviewed.…”

“…Faculty in our FLC were provided resources and coaching to implement EML [6]. However, with an emphasis on large-scale project-based activities, we were concerned about the sustainability of our approach.…”