Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773188
Katja Hoffmann, Cindy Mayas, Heidi Kromker
The nationwide joint research project “ZEITLast” aims to analyze the workload of students. Within this project the Ilmenau University of Technology will conduct a case study in three engineering courses of study. The focus is to identify possible temporal and teaching-based factors of stress and find methods of rearranging teaching methods and lesson plans to decrease the study workload. Particularly, the project is characterized by its method of detailed temporal data.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773144
Manuel Blázquez, M. Castro, E. Tovar, M. Llamas, I. Plaza, R. Meier
There is an idea that engineering degrees are experiencing a decrease in number of students. This is a fact that has concerned many worldwide engineering societies. The reasons may be based in a loss of motivation among students to begin a difficult career, in spite of great expectations jobs proposed from the society. However, this paper offers some data that could change this thought, particularly in Spain. Figures, demographical statistics, students' opinions and university data can give an answer to the question of enrollment and provide some conclusions why engineering careers are less demanded from students. Is it real or just myth?
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773152
Jorge Fontenla, R. Perez, M. Caeiro
The Game×Tel project has arisen as a way take advantage of the possibilities of gaming in collaborative learning environments. In this paper we study the platform developed for Game×Tel on the basics of recently published specification IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability. An analysis on the functionalities of Game×Tel brings up some requirements that cannot be fulfilled by IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability (IMS Basic LTI) in its current form. The paper suggests some proposals of solution to the problems identified.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773137
Sadia Nawaz, P. Rajan, J. H. Yu, Yi Luo, Jea H. Choi, D. Radcliffe, Johannes Strobel
In the last three decades, engineering education research (EER) has made remarkable progress towards a field of interdisciplinary scholarship. This paper defines EER by developing a keyword-based scheme for exploring EER-related scientific publications and collaboration. The keyword-based scheme refers to a conceptual framework we have developed for generating a parsimonious list of keywords which are salient in EER. The generated keywords were used to collect bibliographic records from ISI Web of Science® (WoS), a citation index providing access to the world's leading citation databases and journals. To perform a comprehensive search for EER-related literature by employing the range of truncation rules and the advanced search options available in WoS, the project makes following contributions to the current knowledge base on interdisciplinary research in EE: (1) engineering education research is operationalized as a sophisticated and systematically derived set of keywords and (2) the method of the current study may serve as a significant step towards quantitative analysis of new scientific field.
在过去的三十年中，工程教育研究(EER)朝着跨学科学术领域取得了显著的进展。本文通过开发一个基于关键字的方案来探索与EER相关的科学出版物和合作，从而定义了EER。基于关键字的方案是指我们开发的一个概念框架，用于生成一个简洁的关键字列表，这些关键字在EER中很突出。生成的关键词被用于从ISI Web of Science®(WoS)收集书目记录，这是一个提供访问世界领先引文数据库和期刊的引文索引。为了利用WoS提供的截断规则范围和高级搜索选项对eer相关文献进行全面搜索，该项目对当前的EE跨学科研究知识库做出了以下贡献:(1)工程教育研究作为一套复杂而系统的关键字进行操作;(2)当前研究的方法可以作为对新科学领域进行定量分析的重要一步。
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773111
S. Nusir, I. Alsmadi, M. Al-Kabi, Fatima Shardqah
With the introduction of the Internet, and several new inventions and technologies especially in the communication and computer systems' field, there is a need to enhance teaching and educational methods through the utilization of those technologies which may improve the abilities of educators to present information in an interactive and media enhanced formats relative to traditional methods. This may help students or learners through offering them the information in channels and methods that can be easier to understand, deal with, and retrieve.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773170
I. AlKamal, Salah Afaghani
High tech development companies are extremely scarce in the Pan-Arab region and students do not get a chance to gain industry experience in embedded systems development through internships. This paper illustrates Nawatt Lab's experiment to fill that gap by transferring the role of industry internships to local universities and technology incubators. This is accomplished by providing product driven embedded systems labs and taking into account several critical concepts in engineering education.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773185
Daniela Freitag, A. Thaler
Recent trends in the numbers of engineering students in education suggest that there is a need for change in engineering study programs. One attempt to gain more students is to address a more diverse students' population. This paper draws on current studies on good practice in engineering education in Europe. Based on empirical data, two major trends will be discussed: first, the role of interdisciplinary courses attracting not only more women but generally more ‘non-typical’ engineering students. Second, women only engineering degree courses as an apparently paradox intervention to reach gender equality in the long run by winning more female students will be analyzed.
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773160
R. Dravid, A. Duncan
Engineering and technology sectors have long recognised the importance of soft skills for successful career progression. Research suggests that soft skills are better developed when acquired and practiced than taught. The research describes initial reflections on the potential of discipline-oriented, web-based resource for Personal Development Planning (PDP) to promote and support learner's engagement with personal development and their increased employability awareness. The research further seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of the PDP resource in ‘engineering - developing, fostering and practicing’ engagement with PDP processes such as skills articulation, reflection on learning, and action-planning, within students' learning experiences. Outcomes from initial evaluation are suggestive of resource's success in elucidating links between personal development and employability to learners. The future runs of the research, which is a work in progress, would clarify resource's influence on learner's engagement with personal development and ongoing employability.
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The analysis of the scientific literature available on the types of general competences and their classification caused the authors to conclude that it is necessary to implement interdisciplinary approach in engineering education to develop competences necessary for engineers to make them competitive in the labour market. The attention should be paid to a professional foreign language, computer literacy and educational psychology recommendations. To improve professional foreign language skills, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) method should be integrated in the study process of engineering education. In order to develop information literacy competence, it is important to create a single e-study environment. The academic staff, developing study subjects for engineering programmes, should focus on the study content and study methods. As regards the content, the compromise should be sought between fundamental acquisition of the knowledge of the subject matter, the know-how of the application of this knowledge as well as the use of brand new software in the calculations. The paper presents the examples of the application of the interdisciplinary approach in the universities, where the authors of the paper are affiliated: the LUA (Latvia University of Agriculture) and the RTU (Riga Technical University), respectively.
对一般能力类型及其分类的现有科学文献的分析使作者得出结论，有必要在工程教育中实施跨学科方法，以发展工程师在劳动力市场上具有竞争力所需的能力。应注意对专业外语、计算机素养和教育心理学的建议。为了提高专业外语技能，应在工程教育的学习过程中融入CLIL (Content and language Integrated Learning)方法。为了培养学生的信息素养能力，创建一个统一的电子学习环境是非常重要的。教学人员在制定工程专业研究课题时，应注重研究内容和研究方法。关于内容，应在基本获得有关主题的知识、应用这些知识的专有技术以及在计算中使用全新的软件之间寻求折衷。本文介绍了跨学科方法在大学中的应用实例，本文的作者分别隶属于LUA(拉脱维亚农业大学)和RTU(里加技术大学)。
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Pub Date : 2011-04-04DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773212
Ana A Vilas Boas, Gustavo Henrique Nogueira de Andrade, Thair M. Hamtini, Simone Aparecida de Sousa
This paper aims to describe the perception of tutors and university teachers about quality assurance in a distance undergraduate management course in Minas Gerais Brazil. The results provided a useful amount of information to improve the quality of the course and even the platform used.
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