The Adoption of MOOC to Improve Engineering Design Skill in a Capstone Project

Abstract

One of the efforts to improve the quality of Engineering education is to implement Outcome-based education (OBE). OBE emphasizes how every educational process produces outcomes that can help students achieve the competencies listed in student outcomes (SO). In engineering education, one of the aspects that become the competence of Engineering students is the ability to do Engineering Design (ED). Engineering design is a summative ability to identify problems, analyze problems, design solutions, and measure the success of solutions. One way to achieve this capability is to apply the Capstone Project (CP) in the learning delivery. The capstone project provides a multifaceted project that serves as a culminating academic and intellectual experience for students. However, the limitation of credit hours and the uniqueness of each course in a study program implement the Capstone Project challenge. Therefore, the quality of the capstone project will be different between one student to others. This research sees the opportunity of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) to accelerate the engineering design skill by implementing the capstone project in blended learning delivery or as enrichment material. The article proposes an instructional report that shows how to implement a capstone project with the help of MOOC. As a result, it is shown that the xMOOC model can be applied to enriching engineering design skill. It shows that the assessment model that conducted in MOOC provides an effective way to measure the student skill that planned in course outcome.