As stakeholders clamor for alternative teaching and learning strategies, many options are worthy possibilities. Central to choosing among such alternatives are those that require little outlay of cash, can be used in practically any learning environment, and are proven to be beneficial to both students and educators. In order to accommodate a change from lecture as the primary format of education, choices are available for the educator who wants to expand into student-centered education. One such method is cooperative learning where interdependence becomes the integral element of learning. As a teaching tool, it provides many of the benefits necessary for efficient education, including improvements in group work, critical thinking, individual responsibility, communication, and interpersonal relationships. Additionally, ample research touts the effectiveness of cooperative learning as a proficient tool for education. In order to evaluate cooperative learning in the classroom, a number of reasons are presented in support of cooperative learning as are examples and results from a number of exercises used in both micro-and macroeconomics courses.
A critical component of the entrepreneurial mindset is the ability to be innovative and creative. Often seen as the top soft skill for entrepreneurs, innovation entails far more than brain storming. One of the most useful tools of innovation is the mind map, a simple tool that blends related and unrelated stimuli into generating new ideas. Given the increased emphasis on craft brewing as a major component of the beer industry, many facets of brewing have become quite popular in higher education. Within brewing education, one must consider the process by how students learn how to engage in multiple activities, including innovation. To address innovation in new flavors, a study of students' abilities to create new beer flavors by brainstorming was compared with the same students who used mind maps in a pre-and post-test format. The result of the statistical study is to look at the concept of mapping innovation and the truncated findings with an emphasis on generating new ideas on beer flavors for a market with an expanding number of taste connoisseurs. AbstractA critical component of the entrepreneurial mindset is the ability to be innovative and creative. Often seen as the top soft skill for entrepreneurs, innovation entails far more than brain storming. One of the most useful tools of innovation is the mind map, a simple tool that blends related and unrelated stimuli into generating new ideas. Given the increased emphasis on craft brewing as a major component of the beer industry, many facets of brewing have become quite popular in higher education. Within brewing education, one must consider the process by how students learn how to engage in multiple activities, including innovation. To address innovation in new flavors, a study of students' abilities to create new beer flavors by brainstorming was compared with the same students who used mind maps in a pre-and posttest format. The result of the statistical study is to look at the concept of mapping innovation and the truncated findings with an emphasis on generating new ideas on beer flavors for a market with an expanding number of taste connoisseurs.
With the heightened use of technology in most industries, disruptors serve to create extensive and (sometimes) permanent change to current models of operation. The textbook industry is no exception where factors such as digital technology, consolidation, open sourcing, and economics have resulted in, among other things, student-generated classroom materials. Discussing the strategies for implementing student-generated materials into the class will be an essential part of looking at how to harness new material in a fast-paced digital age.
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