Justin Huber, Steven Higbee, Christina Espinosa, Babak Bazrgari, Sharon Miller
Immersion experiences for undergraduate students in biomedical engineering are key contributors to their ability to identify medical needs. Despite this, as few as 25% of surveyed programs report providing such opportunities. Since 2010 when the National Institute of Health began its R25 grant mechanism to support curricular development toward team-based design, several institutions have established programs for immersion experiences, which provide precedent for their implementation. Published results from such immersion experiences highlight successes in structure and changes in student perspectives after these experiences. As more institutions expand their biomedical engineering curriculum with new immersion-focused programs, it is important to learn from these precedents while also considering opportunities to improve. For newly funded groups that are developing and implementing programs, they may find improved success by strategic use of unique partnerships. However, these partnerships may not be immediately evident to program organizers. Our objective is to discuss two institutions that recently established programs for immersion experience. In the comparison of our two immersion programs, we found five overlapping core features that include: immersion partner collaboration, team-based immersion experiences, needs-finding emphasis, team-based engineering design experiences, and immersion assessment and evaluation. Both programs developed collaborative partnerships with nearby medical schools. Additionally, one program partnered with a community resource (i.e., Human Development Institute). Despite nuanced program differences, we found that students at both programs self-reported increased knowledge or confidence in aspects of the design process (e.g., identifying and refining user needs, concept generation). Our results also highlight student gains unique to their programs - UK students self-reported gains on disability topics and IUPUI students self-reported gains on socioeconomic awareness. In summary, immersion partner collaboration, or partnership, surfaced as a core feature for both programs, and students in both immersion programs endorsed enhanced knowledge or confidence in engineering design.
对于生物医学工程专业的本科生来说，沉浸式体验是他们识别医疗需求能力的关键因素。尽管如此，只有25%的被调查项目报告提供了这样的机会。自2010年美国国立卫生研究院(National Institute of Health)启动R25资助机制，以支持面向团队设计的课程开发以来，一些机构已经建立了浸入式体验项目，这为它们的实施提供了先例。这种沉浸式体验的发表结果强调了这些体验后学生视角的结构和变化的成功。随着越来越多的机构将其生物医学工程课程扩展为新的浸入式课程，从这些先例中学习并考虑改进的机会是很重要的。对于正在开发和实施项目的新资助团体来说，通过战略性地利用独特的伙伴关系，他们可能会发现取得了更大的成功。然而，这些伙伴关系可能不会立即对项目组织者明显。我们的目标是讨论两所最近建立沉浸式体验项目的机构。通过比较我们的两个浸入式课程，我们发现了五个重叠的核心特征，包括:浸入式合作伙伴协作、基于团队的浸入式体验、需求发现重点、基于团队的工程设计体验以及浸入式评估和评估。两个项目都与附近的医学院建立了合作伙伴关系。此外，还有一个项目与社区资源(即人类发展研究所)合作。尽管有细微的程序差异，我们发现两个程序的学生自我报告在设计过程的各个方面(例如，识别和细化用户需求，概念生成)增加了知识或信心。我们的研究结果还突出了学生在他们的项目中获得的独特收益——英国学生自我报告的残疾主题收益，IUPUI学生自我报告的社会经济意识收益。总之，沉浸式合作伙伴合作或伙伴关系是两个项目的核心特征，两个浸入式项目的学生都认可提高了对工程设计的知识或信心。
{"title":"Immersion Experiences for Biomedical Engineering Undergraduates: Comparing Strategies and Local Partnerships at Two Institutions.","authors":"Justin Huber, Steven Higbee, Christina Espinosa, Babak Bazrgari, Sharon Miller","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Immersion experiences for undergraduate students in biomedical engineering are key contributors to their ability to identify medical needs. Despite this, as few as 25% of surveyed programs report providing such opportunities. Since 2010 when the National Institute of Health began its R25 grant mechanism to support curricular development toward team-based design, several institutions have established programs for immersion experiences, which provide precedent for their implementation. Published results from such immersion experiences highlight successes in structure and changes in student perspectives after these experiences. As more institutions expand their biomedical engineering curriculum with new immersion-focused programs, it is important to learn from these precedents while also considering opportunities to improve. For newly funded groups that are developing and implementing programs, they may find improved success by strategic use of unique partnerships. However, these partnerships may not be immediately evident to program organizers. Our objective is to discuss two institutions that recently established programs for immersion experience. In the comparison of our two immersion programs, we found five overlapping core features that include: immersion partner collaboration, team-based immersion experiences, needs-finding emphasis, team-based engineering design experiences, and immersion assessment and evaluation. Both programs developed collaborative partnerships with nearby medical schools. Additionally, one program partnered with a community resource (i.e., Human Development Institute). Despite nuanced program differences, we found that students at both programs self-reported increased knowledge or confidence in aspects of the design process (e.g., identifying and refining user needs, concept generation). Our results also highlight student gains unique to their programs - UK students self-reported gains on disability topics and IUPUI students self-reported gains on socioeconomic awareness. In summary, immersion partner collaboration, or partnership, surfaced as a core feature for both programs, and students in both immersion programs endorsed enhanced knowledge or confidence in engineering design.</p>","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10353772/pdf/nihms-1916000.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9903827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As science and engineering projects are becoming increasingly more complex, sophisticated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary, there is a growing need for systems thinking skills to ensure successful project management. Systems thinking plays a major role in the initiation, effective management, and in facilitating inter-organizational tasks. This research assesses the capacity for engineering systems thinking and its contribution in carrying out a multidisciplinary project. The research also reviews the cognitive process through which systems thinking skill is acquired. The study focused on a group of students who have completed their senior design projects in high-tech industry, while their plans were being integrated into existing larger projects in the respective industrial sites. The systems thinking skill of the students was examined according to a questionnaire for assessing the Capacity for Engineering Systems Thinking (CEST). Statistical analysis shows significant differences in the students capacity for systems thinking at the beginning and end of the work (p<0.001). This research demonstrates that systems thinking skills can be improved through awareness and involvement in multidisciplinary projects.
{"title":"Developing systems thinking in a Project-Based Learning environment","authors":"S. Kordova","doi":"10.14710/IJEE.2.1.63-81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14710/IJEE.2.1.63-81","url":null,"abstract":"As science and engineering projects are becoming increasingly more complex, sophisticated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary, there is a growing need for systems thinking skills to ensure successful project management. Systems thinking plays a major role in the initiation, effective management, and in facilitating inter-organizational tasks. This research assesses the capacity for engineering systems thinking and its contribution in carrying out a multidisciplinary project. The research also reviews the cognitive process through which systems thinking skill is acquired. The study focused on a group of students who have completed their senior design projects in high-tech industry, while their plans were being integrated into existing larger projects in the respective industrial sites. The systems thinking skill of the students was examined according to a questionnaire for assessing the Capacity for Engineering Systems Thinking (CEST). Statistical analysis shows significant differences in the students capacity for systems thinking at the beginning and end of the work (p<0.001). This research demonstrates that systems thinking skills can be improved through awareness and involvement in multidisciplinary projects.","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45999531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shu-Hung Yang, Yu-Ying Wang, A. Lai, Yi-Nan Lin, Gwo-Jen Chiou, Ming-Kuen Chen, V. Shen, Chi-Yen Hsiung
Currently, the school children usually spend a lot of time on the games in their recreational activities and some of them are even addicted to the games. Compared with other extracurricular activities, the e-Learning system reflects the fact that school children are very interested in the games. As a result, educators have lately craved to develop effective teaching activities that allow the school children to learn some subjects and to play the games simultaneously. Therefore, this study is based on an e-Learning system which combines the serious game by Unity3D Game Engine with augmented reality (AR). Students are able to acquire their knowledge and to foster logical skills via this game-based e-Learning system. According to its efficacy and utilities, this study has assessed and compared the game-based e-Learning system with the traditional learning and other e-Learning systems. The experimental results have indicated that the proposed game-based e-Learning system can outperform other existing systems.
{"title":"Development of a Game-Based e-Learning System with Augmented Reality for Improving Students’ Learning Performance","authors":"Shu-Hung Yang, Yu-Ying Wang, A. Lai, Yi-Nan Lin, Gwo-Jen Chiou, Ming-Kuen Chen, V. Shen, Chi-Yen Hsiung","doi":"10.14710/IJEE.V2I1.5052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14710/IJEE.V2I1.5052","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, the school children usually spend a lot of time on the games in their recreational activities and some of them are even addicted to the games. Compared with other extracurricular activities, the e-Learning system reflects the fact that school children are very interested in the games. As a result, educators have lately craved to develop effective teaching activities that allow the school children to learn some subjects and to play the games simultaneously. Therefore, this study is based on an e-Learning system which combines the serious game by Unity3D Game Engine with augmented reality (AR). Students are able to acquire their knowledge and to foster logical skills via this game-based e-Learning system. According to its efficacy and utilities, this study has assessed and compared the game-based e-Learning system with the traditional learning and other e-Learning systems. The experimental results have indicated that the proposed game-based e-Learning system can outperform other existing systems.","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48607862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educational Data Mining (EDM) is a very vigorous area of Data Mining, and it is helpful in predicting the performance of students. Student performance prediction is not only important for students, but also helpful for academic organization to detect the causes of success and failures of students. Furthermore, the features selected through the students’ performance prediction models helps in developing action plans for academic welfare. Feature selection can increase the prediction accuracy of the prediction model. In student performance prediction model, where every feature is very important, as neglection of any important feature can causes wrong development of academic action plans. Moreover, the feature selection is very important step in the development of student performance prediction models. There are different types of feature selection algorithms. In this paper FCBF is selected as a feature selection algorithm. This paper is a step on the way to identifying the factors affecting the academic performance of the students. In this paper performance of FCBF is being evaluated on three different student’s datasets. The performance of FCBF is detected well on a student dataset with greater no of features.
{"title":"Role of FCBF Feature Selection Algorithm in Educational Data Mining","authors":"Maryam Zaffar","doi":"10.14710/IJEE.V2I1.4466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14710/IJEE.V2I1.4466","url":null,"abstract":"Educational Data Mining (EDM) is a very vigorous area of Data Mining, and it is helpful in predicting the performance of students. Student performance prediction is not only important for students, but also helpful for academic organization to detect the causes of success and failures of students. Furthermore, the features selected through the students’ performance prediction models helps in developing action plans for academic welfare. Feature selection can increase the prediction accuracy of the prediction model. In student performance prediction model, where every feature is very important, as neglection of any important feature can causes wrong development of academic action plans. Moreover, the feature selection is very important step in the development of student performance prediction models. There are different types of feature selection algorithms. In this paper FCBF is selected as a feature selection algorithm. This paper is a step on the way to identifying the factors affecting the academic performance of the students. In this paper performance of FCBF is being evaluated on three different student’s datasets. The performance of FCBF is detected well on a student dataset with greater no of features.","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46096245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Background: The main factors to influence on the stroking performance of club head are alloy and spring-like effect. Design the structure of new club face to create the fairway wood which can show best stroking feeling and let driving distance become longer. Purpose: The club face of fairway wood is processed through the iron alloy heating procedure and CNC to innovate the club head with high spring-like effect (characteristic time). Method: (1) Use 455 stainless steel processed by heating and aging treatment, to do the analysis on microstructure and mechanical properties. (2) Through CNC to design seven different patterns for the back of club face, each pattern for three club head. The total amount is twenty-one. (3) Make finished product be test the characteristic time and the ability of strike by the practical measurement. (4) To analyze after the compare between three-way ANOVA and LSD. Results: After 455 stainless steel was heated in procedure S850℃-A550℃, mechanical properties became superior and had the better malleability, it is suitable for developing the club face of high spring-like effect. Before and after grinding among three-way ANOVA (pattern*thickness*place), did not achieve the significant level on the figure of characteristic time. Through two-way ANOVA (pattern*place and thickness*place), showed the significant deviation before and after grinding. After doing the crash test by 45m/s, all the results can reach the higher limited standard. Summary: 455 stainless steel was designed with the different club face’s thicknesses of fairway wood can make spring-like effect achieve high characteristic time. The much thinner club face let the characteristic time perform highly. But there was no obvious effects from the patterns of the back club face.
{"title":"THE ANALYSIS IS FOR THE DESIGN OF DIFFERENT CLUB FACE’S THICKNESSES OF FAIRWAY WOOD TO THE CHARACTERISTIC TIME","authors":"Kuei-Pin Kuo, C. Chao, Ching-Yi Lin","doi":"10.14710/IJEE.2.1.11-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14710/IJEE.2.1.11-19","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The main factors to influence on the stroking performance of club head are alloy and spring-like effect. Design the structure of new club face to create the fairway wood which can show best stroking feeling and let driving distance become longer. Purpose: The club face of fairway wood is processed through the iron alloy heating procedure and CNC to innovate the club head with high spring-like effect (characteristic time). Method: (1) Use 455 stainless steel processed by heating and aging treatment, to do the analysis on microstructure and mechanical properties. (2) Through CNC to design seven different patterns for the back of club face, each pattern for three club head. The total amount is twenty-one. (3) Make finished product be test the characteristic time and the ability of strike by the practical measurement. (4) To analyze after the compare between three-way ANOVA and LSD. Results: After 455 stainless steel was heated in procedure S850℃-A550℃, mechanical properties became superior and had the better malleability, it is suitable for developing the club face of high spring-like effect. Before and after grinding among three-way ANOVA (pattern*thickness*place), did not achieve the significant level on the figure of characteristic time. Through two-way ANOVA (pattern*place and thickness*place), showed the significant deviation before and after grinding. After doing the crash test by 45m/s, all the results can reach the higher limited standard. Summary: 455 stainless steel was designed with the different club face’s thicknesses of fairway wood can make spring-like effect achieve high characteristic time. The much thinner club face let the characteristic time perform highly. But there was no obvious effects from the patterns of the back club face.","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49131422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Students’ interest in science declines substantially in the transition from elementary to secondary education. Using students’ ratings of their instruction on the topic of oxidation-reduction reaction, we examined if changes in instructional practices accounted for differences in situational interest in science imagination instruction and enduring individual interest in science imagination between elementary and secondary school classrooms. Multilevel regression analyses were conducted for a sample of 162 sixth - and 161 seventh-grade gifted classrooms. The use of student experiments, the elicitation of student explanations, and lack of clarity accounted to varying degrees for disparities in science interest between grade levels. The impact of instructional practices on individual interest was mediated by situational interest.
{"title":"Predictive analysis of instruction in science to students’ declining in-terest in science-An analysis of gifted students of sixth - and seventh-grade in Taiwan","authors":"Chia-Yen Hsieh","doi":"10.14710/IJEE.2.1.33-51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14710/IJEE.2.1.33-51","url":null,"abstract":"Students’ interest in science declines substantially in the transition from elementary to secondary education. Using students’ ratings of their instruction on the topic of oxidation-reduction reaction, we examined if changes in instructional practices accounted for differences in situational interest in science imagination instruction and enduring individual interest in science imagination between elementary and secondary school classrooms. Multilevel regression analyses were conducted for a sample of 162 sixth - and 161 seventh-grade gifted classrooms. The use of student experiments, the elicitation of student explanations, and lack of clarity accounted to varying degrees for disparities in science interest between grade levels. The impact of instructional practices on individual interest was mediated by situational interest.","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48097658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-15DOI: 10.14710/IJEE.1.2.114-121
Geraldine G. Nerona
This study focused on determining the effectiveness of collaborative learning strategies in improving students' performance in three general engineering courses. The pretest-posttest control group experimental design was used in the study. From the results of the Z-test, there were no significant differences in the pretest scores of the experimental and control groups. However there were significant differences in the posttest scores of the respondents, with the experimental groups engagedin collaborative learning obtaining significantly higher achievement scores than their control group counterparts,who were exposed to the traditional lecture-discussion and individual learning methods. Effect sizes were also positive for the experimental groups, meaning, they were able to perform better in class compared to their control group counterparts.
{"title":"Effect of Collaborative Learning Strategies on Student Achievement in Various Engineering Courses","authors":"Geraldine G. Nerona","doi":"10.14710/IJEE.1.2.114-121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14710/IJEE.1.2.114-121","url":null,"abstract":"This study focused on determining the effectiveness of collaborative learning strategies in improving students' performance in three general engineering courses. The pretest-posttest control group experimental design was used in the study. From the results of the Z-test, there were no significant differences in the pretest scores of the experimental and control groups. However there were significant differences in the posttest scores of the respondents, with the experimental groups engagedin collaborative learning obtaining significantly higher achievement scores than their control group counterparts,who were exposed to the traditional lecture-discussion and individual learning methods. Effect sizes were also positive for the experimental groups, meaning, they were able to perform better in class compared to their control group counterparts.","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44177767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-12-15DOI: 10.14710/IJEE.1.2.99-105
Raymond Akuh, C. Atombo
Road safety has become a major concern to both developed and developing countries due to its negative economic impacts. Although, numerous approaches of accident analysis have been conducted, there seem to be an increase in road crashes every year. The main aim of this study is to analyse a driving school accident using a system-based accident analysis approach. The data for the study was collected using an interview. A Swiss Cheese Accident Causation Model was used to identify the factors that contributed to the accident. The study identified four weaknesses in the system defences of the driving school that created a possible accident trajectory. It is concluded that adopting system-based accident analysis approach in analysing road transport accidents, could lead to a greater understanding of latent conditions and road user error, which in turn could inform the development of intervention strategies within a road transport domain as suggested by other studies. Finally, the short falls of using only person approach of accident analysis in road transport domain are also highlighted.
{"title":"Road Transport Accident Analysis from A System-Based Accident Analysis Approach Using Swiss Cheese Model","authors":"Raymond Akuh, C. Atombo","doi":"10.14710/IJEE.1.2.99-105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14710/IJEE.1.2.99-105","url":null,"abstract":"Road safety has become a major concern to both developed and developing countries due to its negative economic impacts. Although, numerous approaches of accident analysis have been conducted, there seem to be an increase in road crashes every year. The main aim of this study is to analyse a driving school accident using a system-based accident analysis approach. The data for the study was collected using an interview. A Swiss Cheese Accident Causation Model was used to identify the factors that contributed to the accident. The study identified four weaknesses in the system defences of the driving school that created a possible accident trajectory. It is concluded that adopting system-based accident analysis approach in analysing road transport accidents, could lead to a greater understanding of latent conditions and road user error, which in turn could inform the development of intervention strategies within a road transport domain as suggested by other studies. Finally, the short falls of using only person approach of accident analysis in road transport domain are also highlighted.","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41580559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Previous research has provided a review of the literature on the state of research on mobile learning, but the use of m-learning and MALL to formal and informal learning of foreign languages needs further study. The need to review the language learning assisted by mobile devices emerges from a globalized context, in which pedagogy must question itself to plan and design research drawings in which mobile learning assumes a fundamental importance in teaching practice aimed above all at new generations of students. This study adopts a meta-analysis approach to systematically review the literature, thus providing a more complete analysis and synthesis of 83 studies from 2009 to 2018. Previous studies focus on the effectiveness and design of the mobile learning system. The search for databases and citations was performed by limiting the keywords referring to m-learning and to MALL. Compared to existing reviews, the results confirm revealing a skill-based approach to language learning with an emphasis on vocabulary, learning factors that influence students' perceptions and availability to use new cellular technologies.
{"title":"CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN STUDIES ON MOBILE LEARNING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES: A META-ANALYSIS.","authors":"G. Toto, P. Limone","doi":"10.14710/IJEE.1.2.85-90","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14710/IJEE.1.2.85-90","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has provided a review of the literature on the state of research on mobile learning, but the use of m-learning and MALL to formal and informal learning of foreign languages needs further study. The need to review the language learning assisted by mobile devices emerges from a globalized context, in which pedagogy must question itself to plan and design research drawings in which mobile learning assumes a fundamental importance in teaching practice aimed above all at new generations of students. This study adopts a meta-analysis approach to systematically review the literature, thus providing a more complete analysis and synthesis of 83 studies from 2009 to 2018. Previous studies focus on the effectiveness and design of the mobile learning system. The search for databases and citations was performed by limiting the keywords referring to m-learning and to MALL. Compared to existing reviews, the results confirm revealing a skill-based approach to language learning with an emphasis on vocabulary, learning factors that influence students' perceptions and availability to use new cellular technologies.","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45532071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Answers to the questions of which instructional methods are suitable for school, what instructional methods should be applied in teaching individual subjects and how instructional methods support the act of learning represent challenges to general education and education in individual subjects. This study focuses on the empirical examination of learning outcome in engineering educationwith respect to two instructional methods: direct instruction and computer simulation. A CRF 2x2 design is used to control instructional method and class context. Learning outcome on bridge construction is assessed with reference to the optics of bridge and the material usage for the bridge. The empirical findings show that learning with direct instruction was superior to computer simulation.
{"title":"Direct Instruction vs. Computer Simulation and their Learning Outcome in Engineering Education","authors":"A. Zendler, Manuel Gohl","doi":"10.14710/IJEE.1.2.91-98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14710/IJEE.1.2.91-98","url":null,"abstract":"Answers to the questions of which instructional methods are suitable for school, what instructional methods should be applied in teaching individual subjects and how instructional methods support the act of learning represent challenges to general education and education in individual subjects. This study focuses on the empirical examination of learning outcome in engineering educationwith respect to two instructional methods: direct instruction and computer simulation. A CRF 2x2 design is used to control instructional method and class context. Learning outcome on bridge construction is assessed with reference to the optics of bridge and the material usage for the bridge. The empirical findings show that learning with direct instruction was superior to computer simulation.","PeriodicalId":54960,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45731708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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