scholarly journals Engineering Students as Co-creators in an Ethics of Technology Course

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunter Bombaerts ◽  
Karolina Doulougeri ◽  
Shelly Tsui ◽  
Erik Laes ◽  
Andreas Spahn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Ethics Of Technology ◽  
Challenge Based Learning

AbstractResearch on the effectiveness of case studies in teaching engineering ethics in higher education is underdeveloped. To add to our knowledge, we have systematically compared the outcomes of two case approaches to an undergraduate course on the ethics of technology: a detached approach using real-life cases and a challenge-based learning (CBL) approach with students and stakeholders acting as co-creators (CC). We first developed a practical typology of case-study approaches and subsequently tested an evaluation method to assess the students’ learning experiences (basic needs and motivation) and outcomes (competence development) and staff interpretations and operationalizations, seeking to answer three questions: (1) Do students in the CBL approach report higher basic needs, motivation and competence development compared to their peers in the detached approach? (2) What is the relationship between student-perceived co-creation and their basic needs, motivation and competence development? And (3) what are the implications of CBL/CC for engineering-ethics teaching and learning? Our mixed methods analysis favored CBL as it best supported teaching and research goals while satisfying the students’ basic needs and promoting intrinsic motivation and communication competences. Competence progress in other areas did not differ between approaches, and motivation in terms of identified regulation was lower for CBL, with staff perceiving a higher workload. We propose that our case typology model is useful and that as a method to engage students as co-creators, CBL certainly merits further development and evaluation, as does our effectiveness analysis for engineering ethics instruction in general and for case-study approaches in particular.

scholarly journals The Effective 21st-century Pedagogical Competence as Perceived by Pre-service English Teachers

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Renol Aprico Siregar
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
21St Century Education ◽  
Pedagogical Competence

As teaching is considered as a lifelong process, teachers should always intend to develop themselves to be able to effectively conduct the teaching and learning process. This study aimed at exploring the view of pre-service English teachers towards the effective 21st-century teachers’ pedagogical competence and how they develop their pedagogical competence for their future teaching. The data were obtained through interviews and questionnaires. The study was qualitatively conducted as a case study by involving 12 pre-service English teachers purposively chosen due to their familiarity with the study issue. The results indicated that in terms of 21st-century education, the participants perceived that the pedagogical competence focused on teachers’ capability of integrating the technology in classrooms and teachers’ ability to exploit adjusted methods and materials which furnish students with skills appropriate to their future real-life careers.  Further, there were eight very crucial traits of effective 21st-century pedagogical competence perceived by the participants. They were extended to; facilitating and inspiring students to learn creatively, utilizing, designin

scholarly journals ESP Needs Analysis at the Moroccan University: Renewable Energy Engineering Students at EST Fes as a Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Hanae AIT HATTANI
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Energy Engineering

<p>With English becoming the world’s lingua franca and the proliferating scientific and technological advances, English language education has been gradually shifting from its classical applications such as EFL (English as a foreign language) or ESL (English as a second language) toward new paradigms like English for specific purposes (ESP). The most important and problematic question in ESP teaching and learning is whether the course is effective or not. ESP is student-task oriented, thus, measuring its effectiveness is strongly related to measuring learners’ attitudes, needs, expectations, satisfaction, and achievement. For this purpose, this study attempted to investigate ESP needs analysis of Moroccan university students, case study of renewable energy engineering students at the Higher School of Technology (ESTF).  The research was conducted using quantitative surveys d. The data was gathered from 30 undergraduate renewable energy engineering students. The study findings confirmed that the participant students have highly favorable attitudes towards English language for both their personal and professional careers. However, the survey results indicated that these students have some difficulties with English language productive skills, namely speaking and writing, in addition to some other sub-skills. Therefore, this research suggests a reform at the level of ESP teaching and learning curricular, focusing on the incorporation of innovative approached and methods that aims at enhancing students’ language acquisition and competency.</p>

Using the Interaction-Combinations Integration Model to Explore Real-Life Learning in User-Created Virtual Worlds

2011 ◽  
pp. 47-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Antonacci ◽  
Nellie Modaress ◽  
Edward Lee Lamoureux ◽  
David Thomas ◽  
Timothy Allen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Integration Model

User-created virtual worlds are emerging technologies with rapidly growing acceptance in education. Of the various reported educational uses of these virtual worlds, the focus of this chapter is on virtual worlds for constructivist learning activities, because this use has application to many real-life courses and has the potential to transform teaching and learning. To assist educators with recognizing and understanding virtual world learning activities, Antonacci & Modaress (2005, 2008) developed the Interaction-Combinations Integration model. However, this model has not been studied in actual virtual-world learning practice. Using a case study method, this chapter examines the usefulness of this model to organize and describe actual virtual world learning activities, provides additional learning activity examples, and describes what was needed to implement and conduct these learning activities.

Teaching Engineering Ethics in the Classroom

2016 ◽  
pp. 1334-1349
Author(s):  
Josep M. Basart
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
Teaching Responsibilities ◽  
Ethics Courses ◽  
And Training ◽  
Insight Into

Engineering students are introduced to their profession's ethical and social responsibilities along with their education and training at university. This might be the only time and place where public welfare engagement may be promoted by the institution and acknowledged by students. Their future behavior as engineers heavily depends on the understanding and commitment they may develop during this process. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the main points related to the teaching and learning of Engineering Ethics at universities. In order to gain insight into this complex educational scene, a set of questions are formulated and explored. The discussion of these questions amounts to explain what Engineering Education consists of, how to integrate Engineering Ethics courses into the curriculum and develop instructional designs for classroom teaching, who should assume teaching responsibilities, and finally, what Engineering Ethics goals should be. For each query, the primal issues, controversies, and alternatives are discussed.

Experiences of a US-India Team in Developing a Case Study That Illustrates Technical and Global Issues in Weld Design

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pramod Rajan ◽  
P. K. Raju ◽  
Chetan S. Sankar
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Inspection Time ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
Auburn University ◽  
Institute Of Technology

Understanding the real-world issues in the global industry is one of the ways of enhancing the learning experience of engineering students. This paper describes such an experience. This was a collaborative weld design project between Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli, India. The main problems BHEL faced were (1) Inspection time of the welds, (2) Inaccessibility of the welds, and (3) Detection of kissing bond or pasty weld. Three possible solutions to these problems were identified by the practitioners. In order to bring this real-world issue into engineering classrooms, the authors developed a case study. The authors also developed a multimedia CD-ROM which brings the problem live into class rooms using video, audio and pictures. This case study has been tested with mechanical engineering students. The majority of the students found the use of case studies to be beneficial, particularly because of the group work and applicability to real life situations. The details of the case study and its implementation in an engineering class room at Auburn University are discussed in the paper.

Case study of enquiry-based learning designed for rotating magnetic fields in electric machinery course

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Huijuan ◽  
Zhang Zhenyang ◽  
Song Tengfei
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning Problem ◽  
Rotating Magnetic Fields ◽  
Electric Machinery ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Positive Support

This paper describes a case study of enquiry-based learning to teach problem solving, innovation, group working, and presentation skills for electrical engineering students in electric machinery course at Beijing Jiaotong University. The research project is designed by teachers and students go through three processes: project-based teaching and learning, problem-based derivation and simulation, and enquiry-based presentation. The multidiscipline project is innovated to meet the requirements of engineering education while keeping its traditional effectiveness in driving students to apply knowledge to practice and problem solving. The feedback from students shows positive support for the innovations.

scholarly journals A Case Study on Emerging Learning Pathways in SDG-Focused Engineering Studies through Applying CBL

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8495
Author(s):  
Daina Gudonienė ◽  
Agnė Paulauskaitė-Tarasevičienė ◽  
Asta Daunorienė ◽  
Vilma Sukackė
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Challenge Based Learning ◽  
Learning Pathways ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Community Of Researchers

Recently, a growing number of Higher Education institutions have started to implement challenge-based learning (CBL) in study processes. However, despite the growing Higher Education attention to challenge-based learning, research on the method, especially in Engineering education, has not been extensively conducted and made publicly available to the community of researchers and teaching practitioners. To bridge this gap, this paper provides a case analysis of implementing challenge-based learning in a Master’s degree program for engineering students, aiming to highlight the main aspects of combining challenge-based learning and Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11), namely sustainable cities and communities. The findings are consistent with previous CBL studies revealing positive benefits of implementing the method; however, the paper adds novelty by showcasing the learning pathways that emerge to learners and teachers when CBL is implemented in an SDG-11-focused course.

scholarly journals On the MUVE or in decline: Reflecting on the sustainability of the Virtual Birth Centre developed in Second Life

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stewart ◽  
Deborah Davis
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
Birth Centre ◽  
Clinical Scenarios ◽  
Life Education ◽  
Learning Projects

<span>Pressures in terms of the availability of quality, real-life clinical experiences for students have resulted in increased interest in the use of simulation in a variety of healthcare disciplines. </span><em>Te wahi whanau: The birth place</em><span> is a Virtual Birth Centre (VBC) that was created in </span><em>Second Life</em><span> in 2009 as part of the Second Life Education in New Zealand (SLENZ) initiative. It was introduced to midwifery students at two New Zealand polytechnics, with the aim of exposing the students to a birth centre environment and providing them with an opportunity to practise midwifery through immersion and engagement in a number of clinical scenarios. It has been just over two years since the development of the VBC, yet it is no longer used in the midwifery programs in which it was introduced. Using the VBC as a case study, we recount its development and critically reflect on the factors impacting on its ongoing utilisation. We believe our reflections offer useful insight into issues relating more broadly to the sustainability of MUVE-based teaching and learning projects and initiatives.</span>

scholarly journals Analyzing effectiveness of active learning through project-based learning approach in university level ICT courses

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Dhiraj Shrestha ◽  
Satyendra Nath Lohani ◽  
Roshan Manjushree Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
University Level ◽  
Teaching Learning

The concept of Active Learning (AL), which has journeyed through multiple research studies over the years, is an important part of the teaching learning process at academic institutions. The present study applies active learning via project-based approaches where students engage in real life projects and solve associated complications with their research, communication, and technical skills. As a case study of effectiveness of project-based learning (PBL), especially in engineering project contexts, the present research is conducted among students studying computer science and engineering at Kathmandu University (KU), Nepal. The key findings of the study suggest that PBL assignments have helped students in their active learning processes. This paper also compares teaching and learning approaches of KU with other IT institutions of Nepal.

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