Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 10

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 10
Author: Jules Janick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010-04-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0470650001

Part of a series which presents papers of topical interest relating to the breeding of plants important to agriculture and horticulture.

Teaching Engineering, Second Edition

Teaching Engineering, Second Edition
Author: Phillip C. Wankat
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1612493629

The majority of professors have never had a formal course in education, and the most common method for learning how to teach is on-the-job training. This represents a challenge for disciplines with ever more complex subject matter, and a lost opportunity when new active learning approaches to education are yielding dramatic improvements in student learning and retention. This book aims to cover all aspects of teaching engineering and other technical subjects. It presents both practical matters and educational theories in a format useful for both new and experienced teachers. It is organized to start with specific, practical teaching applications and then leads to psychological and educational theories. The "practical orientation" section explains how to develop objectives and then use them to enhance student learning, and the "theoretical orientation" section discusses the theoretical basis for learning/teaching and its impact on students. Written mainly for PhD students and professors in all areas of engineering, the book may be used as a text for graduate-level classes and professional workshops or by professionals who wish to read it on their own. Although the focus is engineering education, most of this book will be useful to teachers in other disciplines. Teaching is a complex human activity, so it is impossible to develop a formula that guarantees it will be excellent. However, the methods in this book will help all professors become good teachers while spending less time preparing for the classroom. This is a new edition of the well-received volume published by McGraw-Hill in 1993. It includes an entirely revised section on the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and new sections on the characteristics of great teachers, different active learning methods, the application of technology in the classroom (from clickers to intelligent tutorial systems), and how people learn.

Love Like Hate

Love Like Hate
Author: Linh Dinh
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609801296

Linh Dinh is already one of the secret masters of short fiction. Love Like Hate is something like a traditional cross-cultural novel that's been shocked into life by Dinh's uncanny ability to tell us stories we didn't even know we wanted to hear. -- Ed Park, editor of The Believer In Love Like Hate, Linh Dinh weaves a dysfunctional family saga that doubles as a portrait of Vietnam in the last half century. Protagonists Kim Lan and Hoang Long marry in Saigon during the Vietnam War, uniting in a setting that allows Dinh's dark, deadpan humor to flourish. Describing his mushrooming cast of characters in unsentimental and sometimes absurd ways, Dinh embraces contradictions with the surreal exuberance of Matthew Sharpe and the stylistic élan of Italo Calvino.

I Love Yous Are for White People

I Love Yous Are for White People
Author: Lac Su
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2009-05-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting, this stirring memoir chronicles one Asian-American immigrant's struggle to find himself--and to transcend the dangers of gang life in Los Angeles.

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 41

Plant Breeding Reviews, Volume 41
Author: Irwin Goldman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2018-03-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 111941427X

Plant Breeding Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on plant genetics and the breeding of all types of crops by both traditional means and molecular methods. Many of the crops widely grown today stem from a very narrow genetic base; understanding and preserving crop genetic resources is vital to the security of food systems worldwide. The emphasis of the series is on methodology, a fundamental understanding of crop genetics, and applications to major crops.

Research on PBL Practice in Engineering Education

Research on PBL Practice in Engineering Education
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9087909322

The success of Problem Based Learning and Project Organised learning (PBL) as an educational method in the field of Higher Engineering Education is clear and beyond any doubt.

Problem-Based Learning in Clinical Education

Problem-Based Learning in Clinical Education
Author: Susan Bridges
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-01-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9400725159

Developed in the context of health sciences education in the late 1960s, problem-based learning (PBL) is now widely deployed as an education methodology. Its problem-solving, collaborative, student-centred ethos is seen as a more appropriate system of pedagogy than earlier ‘chalk-and-talk’ modes. Focusing on its use in clinical education, this collection of recent scholarship on PBL examines the ways in which PBL is both conceived and implemented in clinical education. The work has a dual emphasis, research-driven on the one hand, while on the other assessing new methodologies to explore how problem-based curricula support the achievement of students’ learning outcomes in the context of clinical education. The chapters draw on studies that explore PBL both theoretically and empirically. The volume’s eclecticism capitalises on the growing body of empirical research into PBL evaluations. It balances this with studies analysing the relatively new area of discourse-based research on PBL-in-action, whose focus has been to interrogate the ‘how’ of student learning in curricula with PBL content.This publication will be of interest to clinical teachers, curriculum designers and those interested in innovations in the scholarship of teaching and learning in PBL curricula.