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Problem Based Learning approach (PBL) is an instructive constructivist method which promotes, as its main feature, the use of real life problems to initiate and motivate the comprehension of new concepts, stimulating the abilities and actions that are needed for the solutions of such problems. PBL is strongly fundamented in well defined principles. Thus, it is fundamentally important that teachers...
New times demand new teaching and learning methodologies. A partial flipped classroom methodology was tested in a modelling and feedback control course for undergraduate biomedical engineering. A semester course was divided in two parts: the first half using a flipped approach and the second one using a classical approach. The experience results are reported, presenting the methodology ups and downs...
The purpose of this study was to explore the college students as subjects in an experiment with the lotus blossom technique in teaching in terms of the students' potentiality of creative problem solving and performance of creative problem solving competency after creative works were accomplished. The creative problem solving competences were analyzed by means of Potentiality Questionnaire for Creative...
Ensuring satisfactory results by using problem-based learning in education in the Computing area is challenging. Faithfully maintaining the philosophy of PBL requires not only full compliance with its principles but also that its processes are managed efficiently. To facilitate the adoption of PBL, especially as to managing its processes, this article puts forward a framework based on Demig's PDCA...
The capstone design course is a senior level course in large number of civil engineering and construction programs. This course bridges the gap between education and industry by emphasizing project-based learning, asking students to accomplish open-ended project planning and system design. This study aims to investigate the potential of incorporating service learning into capstone courses in Civil...
This paper describes the course on Advanced Computer Structure given in the Computer Engineering Degree at the University of Murcia. The subject carries six ECTS credits and students have 150 hours during which they attend theory classes and practicals, and carry out their personal work along with the corresponding evaluation. This article analyzes the teaching methodology, the timing, the coordination,...
This article reports a survey study (N=1044) exploring the relationship between five metacognitive variables measured in Vandergrift et al. And the participants' listening performance on two listening tests. Results showed that Chinese undergraduates had a fairly high degree of metacognitive awareness of listening in directed attention, problem-solving, and planning and evaluation, but not in person...
This study aims to analyze the programming examples of commercial vocational high school textbooks in Taiwan. Five programming textbooks widely adopted by schools were reviewed to examine the presentation of programming examples' problem-solving steps: problem analysis, solution planning, coding and testing/debugging. It is found that the examples lack abundant guidance of problem-solving steps for...
Advances on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have influenced education, and transformed the teaching-learning processes, among others aspects. It has been established that teachers' knowledge on digital media, their design and pedagogical application, is extremely relevant to improve their teaching activities. As Salinas (1997) says "teachers are essential at the time of initiating...
More than 30 years ago came the birth of a new discipline; called organizational development … It is in fact the subject of change management, which is of profound interest to management scholars as well as to consultants who see organizational performance as the sum of individual performance [1]. The focus of this paper is on the role of Organization Development (OD) the large changing environment...
The management of Bi-cultural teleworking team has now been developing into a hot topic for human resource management. From the perspective of cross-culture, this paper makes a comparative study on the management mechanism between Chinese-led bi-cultural teleworking teams and the Norwegian-led bi-cultural teleworking teams. The results show that there exists obvious difference in leadership mechanisms,...
This project is designed to build on theories of team composition and proposes an innovative way of assigning students to teams. Currently, professors are using a variety of team assignment techniques to form software engineering teams. This research believes that a contributing factor to the undesired outcomes (i.e., low performing teams and high levels of conflict) of software engineering teams...
Formulating and delineating a problem and presenting a solid proposal for follow-up research is a challenge for any strategy or policy analyst. This paper describes how at TU Delft students in policy analysis and engineering management learn how to use a systems approach for exploring and analyzing complex problem situations. Their analysis should result in a clear and consistent problem framing,...
The dynamics of business and software engineering in the flattened world poses both challenges and opportunities in terms of pedagogical exploration and innovative experiments. A generic pedagogical scenario is to serve the purpose by incorporating two empiricist approaches in management education to emphasize situated authentic experiences in context. A case contextualized game for software project...
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