A recent Techtronics session might have been titled "Lights, Camera, Surgery!" The session, in which the middle-school students performed "laparoscopic surgery" on shoeboxes, exemplifies how immersed students can become in its projects, says Paul Klenk B.S.E.
As a young architecture student immersed in my studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, I was perhaps unable to fully grasp the importance of my education.
It may be possible, as one of many examples, to develop courses where students become immersed in reading and comparing significant journalistic pieces along with other materials about the same subject and then discuss what the authors tried to do, what alternative stories might have been written, and what this analysis reveals about the practice of journalism and about society.
The exchange allowed the students to become immersed in their counterpart's research environment firsthand.
The program provides an excellent opportunity for each of these students to become immersed in a research project using cutting-edge techniques to address an important health-related question.
Recent advances in virtual reality present opportunities for students to be immersed in complex, dynamic, and three-dimensional structures and relationships via sensory aids such as haptics (Bivall Persson et al., 2006; Minogue and Gail Jones, 2006, 2008).
Students and faculty are immersed in an intense and joyful process of experimenting, tinkering, investigating, and inventing.
I understand that A-levels could engage and encourage students to become more immersed in their subjects, but scrapping AS-levels and retakes is unprecedented.
Today's students have grown up immersed in the Internet and with the ability to adapt rapidly to new technologies, giving them a comfort level with things that newspapers are just discovering, like blogs, podcasts and video clips.
The Executive MBA Metro NY program will continue to offer its hallmark weekend residential component to foster collaboration across the cohorts, allowing students to remain fully immersed in coursework and team projects and take advantage of social and cultural events in NYC.
One is that they fear the loss of academic momentum, a fear that can be reduced with a well-structured program so the student enters college still fully immersed in that academic mode.
