Students’ Perceptions of Terrascope, A Project-Based Freshman Learning Community

Students’ Perceptions of Terrascope, A Project-Based Freshman Learning Community

We present a descriptive case study of Terrascope, an innovative, year-long, project-based learning community at MIT. Each year, Terrascope students study a particular environmental or Earth-system problem from a multidisciplinary perspective. Terrascope includes both academic and non-academic compo...

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Main Authors: Bras, Rafael L., Epstein, Ari W., Hodges, Kip Vernon, Lipson, Alberta
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer Netherlands 2009
Subjects:
self-directed learning
environmental education
freshman
teamwork
interdisciplinary learning
project-based learning
experiential learning
assessment
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49458
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3843-0391
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0208-1935

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49458
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3843-0391
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0208-1935

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