Owning Your Project-Based Learning: The College Student’s Guide to Design Thinking, Problem Selection,...

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Jacqueline Preston

Owning Your Project-Based Learning

The College Student’s Guide to Design Thinking, Problem Selection, and Self-Assessment

Jacqueline Preston

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Routledge
30 December 2024

Philosophy & theory of education; Educational psychology; Teacher training; Open learning, home learning, distance education; Teaching of a specific subject

Owning Your Project-Based Learning is a user-friendly, vividly illustrated guide designed to help undergraduate students and their instructors fully realize the power of project-based learning (PBL). This book complements a wide range of discipline-specific materials, guiding college students to identify topics of interest, conduct thorough research, and tackle real-world problems through thoughtfully designed projects. It is an indispensable resource for undergraduate instructors, enabling them to focus on content while providing students with the necessary tools to collaborate with community partners and effectively manage project development. Whether assigned by a professor or developed with teams or community partners, PBL offers enriching, hands-on educational experiences across various disciplines. As the demand for PBL at the undergraduate level increases, this essential guide addresses college-specific needs – from the academic research process to the critical roles of distribution, publication, and multimedia in career readiness – ensuring comprehensive support for both students and faculty.

By: Jacqueline Preston
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781032549415
ISBN 10: 1032549416
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 30 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction Part I: Topics 1. Situate: Understanding Context 2. Explore: Choosing Topics That Matter Part II: Problems 3. Organize: Getting Set For Research 4. Focus: Conducting Preliminary and Scholarly Research Part III: Designs 5. Design: Generating Big Ideas 6. Prototype: Testing Your Ideas 7. Interview: Gathering Insight from Users Part IV: Projects 8. Propose: Making It Official 9. Develop: Creating Deliverables 10. Assess: Measuring Success

Jacqueline Preston is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Utah Valley University, USA.

Reviews for Owning Your Project-Based Learning: The College Student’s Guide to Design Thinking, Problem Selection, and Self-Assessment

“Owning Your Project-Based Learning is a book that will help students to have a successful experience creating a major academic project. Its step-by-step flexible approach offers management systems for taking an initial idea from inception through development, research, and testing to completion. Students critically examine the factors contributing to real world problems as well as how to best address the needs of stakeholders. By learning design principles and rhetorical strategies, students craft proposals and develop digital presentation skills. The text includes several examples of how other students solved problems while working with teams, community partners, or prototype users. Effective design, writing, and presentation skills are valuable for professionals in any field.” —Nancy J. Mack, Professor of English at Wright State University, USA, and author of Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects: A Teacher's Guide