PERCEIVED BENEFITS OF ONLINE LECTURES DURING THE PANDEMIC: A CASE STUDY IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
Prof. Ph.D. Valentina Iuliana MANEA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Time Saving ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Online Lectures ◽  
Online Lecture ◽  
Lecture Format

The educational process changed significantly in the context of the pandemic generated by the Coronavirus. University students had to move from the traditional classes and laboratories to the online platform. As extant research shows, this shift to online education has both advantages and drawbacks. The objective of this research is to analyze the advantages of online lectures as perceived by engineering students from a Romanian technical university in Bucharest. The analysis has been done on a sample of 109 university students. The results revealed two kinds of benefits: educational and personal. The most important educational benefits were the online participation and the possibility to record and review courses or seminars any time and from anywhere. The most important personal benefits were time-saving, comfort, and money-saving. Overall, the perceptions of engineering students are suggesting a relative acceptance of the online lecture format which contrasts with the results of similar studies in the literature

scholarly journals Business and Management Higher Education Quality: A Case Study of a Czech Private University

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Lucie Vnoučková ◽  
Hana Urbancová ◽  
Helena Smolová
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Private University ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Multidimensional Concept

Assessment of the business higher education quality is a multifaceted and multidimensional concept. Quality as a factor of performance of universities is currently an often-discussed topic. The aim of this article is to identify and evaluate factors of quality of business economics education by university students at a private Czech university. The results are based on a quantitative survey by questionnaire data collection from university students. The factor analysis was conducted to find significant groups of students regarding their perception of the educational process divided into three main areas. The quality perception was analyzed in this paper specifically by using focus on areas of subjects, lessons, and teachers. The analysis found groups of variables with significant appearance within the groups of students to reveal their main orientation and preferences. It is quality orientation (specified learning outcomes and its applicability), business orientation (tailoring to business needs) and expert orientation (skills and knowledge of teacher, his/her orientation on study group and tailoring lessons to their needs). Furthermore, identification of homogenous groups of students and their expectations helps with a design of subjects and lessons in the way of focusing on practice, addressing the needs and preferred teaching techniques. This is especially true when the students are already experienced in the taught subject. A limitation of the study is a narrow focus on one private university. It may be taken as a case study.

scholarly journals Students’ Attitudes to the Online University Course of Management in the Context of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-292
Author(s):  
Miglena Angelova
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
Empirical Survey ◽  
Online Lectures ◽  
Traditional Lectures ◽  
Analysis Of Results ◽  
Online Lecture ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
University Course

The present paper tracks the attitudes of the Bulgarian students towards online education provided by the universities during the quarantine period due to the pandemic situation caused by COVID-19. The study presents data and analysis of results from an empirical survey conducted in April 2020 among students in different stages of their tertiary education in Bachelor Degree. Our findings show that students define online lectures with the same quality as traditional lectures in auditoriums. In terms of intensity there is no clear expressed opinion of responders with slight predominance of people who claim that the intensity of online learning is less than the traditional lecture. Major part of responded students claims that they manage to focus better in online lecture. Students are convinced that in online environment they work easier in individual tasks, but not in team works.

Integrating Real Industrial Experiences Into the Curriculum Through Robotics Applications

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nael Barakat
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Robotic Manipulator ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Goals ◽  
Educational Benefits ◽  
Engineering Team ◽  
Engineering Organization ◽  
Functional Prototype ◽  
Industry Professional

Integrating real industrial applications and bringing actual engineering problems into the curriculum is always a win-win activity. The educational benefits of such activity are countless. In addition to industry, professional engineering organizations can be a great resource to support actual engineering projects and mentor engineering students. Partnering with industry, professional engineering organization, and any similar entity, allows the students a unique opportunity to gain exposure and practice real engineering before graduation. The challenge with this concept is to find and run the appropriate project or activity that will simultaneously meet the expectations of all parties and fulfill the educational objectives, while conforming to the time limitations of the course. This paper presents and evaluates such experience through two examples of projects utilizing robotics to achieve engineering educational goals through the design and build of functional industry-grade systems. The first project was performed by an interdisciplinary engineering team of students to solve an actual industrial problem. The project was sponsored by an industrial customer and produced a functional prototype that achieved the required goals and was ready to be duplicated at the customer’s site. The second project was also performed by a team of engineering students to design and build an industrial scale functional robotic manipulator in partnership with a professional engineering organization. The external organization sponsored the project and provided some professional engineers as mentors. The outcome of the project was a mobile 5-axis robotic manipulator that is used for many engineering demo and recruiting events. These projects are examples of ways in which real engineering exercises can be integrated into the curriculum to enhance the educational process and improve collaboration between academia and other engineering entities.

Developing Cultural Competency in Engineering through Transnational Distance Learning

2012 ◽  
pp. 210-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Moore ◽  
Dominik May ◽  
Kari Wold
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
International Experiences ◽  
Course Sequences

While cultural competency is a stated priority for engineering education in the United States, as emphasized by Outcome H in the ABET standards, it is often difficult to engage students in immersive international experiences that develop intercultural awareness. Undergraduate engineering students face packed curricula with little or no room for languages and an often unforgiving structure that puts them a year out of course sequences if they do travel for study abroad. In this case study, the authors examine how online education can be a transformational factor in this challenge. When designed to create interactive, engaging learning across nations, online education can support joint international experiences that develop cultural competency without requiring the time and expenses that are often a barrier for students. This online model could easily be scaled up to offer more students an international collaboration opportunity without institutional reliance on study abroad. This online transnational distance learning approach saves students and universities time and money, while accomplishing the intended professional competencies.

scholarly journals Cooperative Learning Environment in Teaching Mobile Application Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Antonio Márcio Albuquerque Almeida ◽  
Leonardo Pires De Sousa Silva ◽  
Francisco Heitor Vasconcelos ◽  
Rômulo Nunes De Carvalho Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

The evolution in the formation of techniques in technological vocational education constitutes a series of pedagogical strategies that allow the learning, exercise, incentive and practice of students. The projects of interdisciplinary in the university aims to assist in learning the individual with the incentive of activities directed for collaborating with students in undergraduate. These projects are important for undergraduate courses in electrical engineering and computing engineering at the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Sobral campus. With the main objectives of the project is to encourage the student to learn to academic growth. This article presents a case study developed by the project called the cooperative learning cell for the development of android applications, applied in groups of engineering students in the first and second semesters, using recent teaching methods aimed at learning, occurring in the period from September to December 2016. The main objective of the project was to promote the learning and sharing of knowledge about the programming content for mobile devices, aimed at the android operating system. In addition, it seeks to stimulate the student with more interactive content, applying examples and activities related to mobile programming that were related with the content of the engineering course or the labor market. After the group of students was created, nine meetings took place in each of them, the cooperative learning methodology was applied to the group, where the knowledge was generated through the interaction between two or more people, resulting in an active participation of the educational process. The classes were designed with a focus on content exposure, challenges and small projects to solve group tasks. In addition, professionals working in engineering companies in the northern region of Ceará were invited to give lectures to show the current situation of the labor market, focused on mobile applications. Evaluating the result over the course of the project. Keywords: Educational incentive, Cooperation, Engineering Teaching, Android.

scholarly journals An Analytical Evaluation of ESP Textbook for Engineering Students in Sudanese Universities A Case Study of Sudan International University SIU English Language Course, C

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Osama Wdidi
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
University Students ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
English Language ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Arabic Version ◽  
Analytical Evaluation ◽  
International University ◽  
The University

The current study is conducted to evaluate the English language textbook used for university students who specialized in engineering; the case study of this research is the textbook which is indorsed to teach English to the university students of engineering college at Sudan International University. The main objective of this evaluation is to analyze the textbook to recognize whether it suits the engineering students. The adopted method for this study was descriptive analytical method. The researcher used the questionnaire, (an Arabic version) for a sample of (90) engineering college students. The findings of the study have shown that an overwhelming majority of the students agreed that the layout of the textbook is perfect and its design is suitable. Besides, they acknowledged that textbook is quite satisfactory in terms of its activities. Based on the above findings, the researcher comes to the conclusion that the textbook which is taught in this university, with all these positive views is definitely a favorable and useful textbook for the engineering students and at Sudan International University.

scholarly journals The Views of International University Students About Online Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismail Karakus ◽  
◽  
Sena Karakus
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
International University ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Turkish Language ◽  
Education Process

Currently, international university students are working hard to cope with many problems in socio-cultural, psychological and economic terms. Particularly after Covid-19 epidemic experienced by the whole world in early 2020, they have started to face greater problems. Therefore, in this study, the aim is to examine the opinions of international university students taking Turkish online lessons about course practices and learning-teaching processes. Qualitative research design was used in this study, and the data were collected through focus group interviews. Participants of the study consist of 18 international university students enrolled in a state university in the academic year of 2020-2021 and receiving Turkish language education at B2 level. While some of the international university students expressed positive opinions regarding the economical and comfortable online education process, some of them expressed negative opinions; namely the lack of communication, the difficulties experienced in online exams and the language learning process and the inefficiency of education. Most of the students stated that the online education process has both positive and negative aspects. As the advantages of this educational process, students pointed out facilitating academic processes easily, managing time, being healthy and saving money. On the other hand, it was highlighted that there are technical, personal, educational, health and language difficulties in the online education process. As solution suggestions for these difficulties, the participants made suggestions on eliminating the problems in technical and physical conditions, including more motivational activities and improving the educational process.

Developing Cultural Competency in Engineering through Transnational Distance Learning

2014 ◽  
pp. 1571-1589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Moore ◽  
Dominik May ◽  
Kari Wold
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
International Experiences ◽  
Course Sequences

While cultural competency is a stated priority for engineering education in the United States, as emphasized by Outcome H in the ABET standards, it is often difficult to engage students in immersive international experiences that develop intercultural awareness. Undergraduate engineering students face packed curricula with little or no room for languages and an often unforgiving structure that puts them a year out of course sequences if they do travel for study abroad. In this case study, the authors examine how online education can be a transformational factor in this challenge. When designed to create interactive, engaging learning across nations, online education can support joint international experiences that develop cultural competency without requiring the time and expenses that are often a barrier for students. This online model could easily be scaled up to offer more students an international collaboration opportunity without institutional reliance on study abroad. This online transnational distance learning approach saves students and universities time and money, while accomplishing the intended professional competencies.

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