Fostering Collaborative Learning and Educational Mass Customization in a Graduate Level Engineering Design Course
| Autor: | Rippel, Markus, Schaefer, Dirk, Mistee, Farrokh, Panchal, Jitesh H. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Engineering Education Rippel, M, Schaefer, D, Mistee, F & Panchal, J H 2009, ' Fostering Collaborative Learning and Educational Mass Customization in a Graduate Level Engineering Design Course ', International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 729-744 . |
| Popis: | The rapid progress of globalization has lead to many unprecedented changes in the world in whichour students will practice. New product development paradigms such as mass collaboration areredefining the way in which products are realized. The authors believe that in the light of thesechanges, new approaches to educating the next generation of engineers are needed. Towards thisgoal, the authors present a pedagogical approach to allow students to experience mass collaborationand to improve their understanding of emerging trends in product development. The approachis designed to foster collective learning and to apply mass customization in education. It ispresented in the context of a graduate engineering design courseÐ`Designing Open EngineeringSystems'. Two of the main features of the approach are: (1) providing the students with theopportunity to define their own learning goals, and (2) posing a broad question to which thestudents are required to develop an answer by the end of the semester. All activities of the course are geared towards answering this questionÐboth individually and collectively. Collective learning isfacilitated through semester-long continuous development of a collaborative answer to the Q4S bythe entire class. Mass customization of education is achieved by having students define theirpersonal semester goals as well as personalizing their answer to the Q4S. A web-based collaborativelearning framework is developed for this course using social networking tools to facilitatecommunication, and to simulate a mass collaborative environment. The authors believe that suchpedagogical approaches are essential for developing a foundation for next generation educationalenvironments. |
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