Location
Daytona Beach, Florida
Description
The ERAU Extended Campus has short academic terms, a multimodal delivery system, a highly mobile student body, and some 3,000 faculty teaching. They face a more challenging task of creating a positive classroom environment than most traditional universities and programs. The researchers sought to both assess the presence of a positive learning environment and to bridge the gap between the present EC classrooms and a "world class" learning environment. Five graduate and three undergraduate classes at six locations in three states in ERAU Southwest Region were sampled using a researcher-designed survey. Fifty-three respondents indicated that Embry-Riddle's Extended Campus is providing them a very positive learning environment, identified best-practices desired in the classroom environment, and offered constructive criticism. The researchers recommended that the ERAU EC Center for Teaching and Learning Effectiveness create a "positive learning environment" module based on this research for dissemination to all Extended Campus faculty.
Maximizing Student Learning Through the Creation of a Positive Classroom Environment
Daytona Beach, Florida
The ERAU Extended Campus has short academic terms, a multimodal delivery system, a highly mobile student body, and some 3,000 faculty teaching. They face a more challenging task of creating a positive classroom environment than most traditional universities and programs. The researchers sought to both assess the presence of a positive learning environment and to bridge the gap between the present EC classrooms and a "world class" learning environment. Five graduate and three undergraduate classes at six locations in three states in ERAU Southwest Region were sampled using a researcher-designed survey. Fifty-three respondents indicated that Embry-Riddle's Extended Campus is providing them a very positive learning environment, identified best-practices desired in the classroom environment, and offered constructive criticism. The researchers recommended that the ERAU EC Center for Teaching and Learning Effectiveness create a "positive learning environment" module based on this research for dissemination to all Extended Campus faculty.