Effects of In-class Hands-On Laboratories in a Large Enrollment, Multiple Section Blended Linear Circuits Course.

Autor: FERRI, BONNI H., FERRI, ALDO A., MAJERICH, DAVID M., MADDEN, AMANDA G.
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Zdroj: Advances in Engineering Education; Fall2016, Vol. 5 Issue 3, p1-27, 27p
Abstrakt: This paper examines the effects of hands-on learning in an undergraduate circuits class that is taught to non-majors; i.e., students outside of electrical and computing engineering. The course, ECE3710, is taught in a blended format facilitated by the video lectures prepared for two Massive Open Online Courses developed for the Coursera Platform. Because of the video content covered outside of class, the face-to-face portion of the class is enhanced with a number of active and collaborative learning techniques, including the inclusion of small-scale, mobile, hands-on labs. The assessment results show that the laboratory experiences play a significant role in the enhancement of student performance. The labs also have the benefit of improving students' confidence in course topics that are related to lab exercises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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