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. (Contributor), Epstein, Ari W. (Contributor), Hodges, Kip Vernon (Contributor), Lipson, Alberta (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Teaching and Learning Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Office of Experiential Learning (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands, 2009-10-19T13:29:43Z.
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