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The Malaysian Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) has stated that an undergraduate must undergo at least eight weeks of industrial training as part of their engineering program. Industrial training is very important for undergraduate students to provide an opportunity for the students to experience real working environments first hand, while at the same time, benefit them in terms of their personal...
Engineering education researchers focus on research, putting research into practice, and creating innovative practice. These foci require meaningful communication that elicits a desired response (e.g. adoption of innovation). Innovation advocates and change agents know that communication is critical to a project's success. Without expertise in rhetoric, communications present significant challenges,...
Changes in higher education are not only technology-driven but even more by societal changes. As generation Y and Z enter the universities, other requirements have to be met, because their learning expectations differ from requirements of former generations. Many scientists highlight the effectivity of new teaching methods especially for higher education. The question is if positive effects are noticeable...
To meet the global tourism market trend and educational need, English for Tourism Purposes (ETP) courses have been rapidly developed in Taiwan's universities for recent years. Investigation and evaluation of national-wide ETP curriculum, give directions to the educators whose learners are second language speakers of English and aspire to work in the international tourism and hospitality industry have...
The flipped classroom is one of the contemporary pedagogical methods and it commonly means an instructional model that students view video lectures and practice problems as homework prior to class, and engage student-centered activities in the classroom.
A case study on Colorado Technical University's development and release of its CTU Mobile app for students. This paper includes mobile user research findings, functionality objectives, KPIs underway to evaluate adoption and impact, and best practices for universities considering a mobile app.
The assessment, which is together with motivation, explanation, fixing and applying the new knowledge, an important part of the process of instruction, is not paid enough attention from the teachers' side as it definitely deserves. Teachers are making strong efforts to create the same conditions and apply identical criteria to all learners. This approach seems to be fair. However, in reality it is...
The current implementation of quality assurance system in higher education is guided through general documentation provided by quality assurance agency which might interpreted differently by different people. This will lead to misunderstanding during preparation of the quality assurance document and the audit process. Therefore, there is a need to establish a well-structured knowledge and shared concept...
With learning moving beyond time and space, beyond paper and pencil, beyond chalkboard and whiteboard; and into virtual learning space - it is imperative for educators to come together and be on the same page as to what e-Learning is all about. As new ways of learning and learners' need in the 21st century continues to grow and evolve, the perception and understanding of e-Learning as merely uploading...
Today, web-based education technologies such as e-learning, distance learning, online course, virtual classrooms and interactive learning are commonly used outside the traditional education systems. Massive Open Online Courses, which were adopted with the evolution of these systems in 2008, have become the most popular education systems of today and access to a very large audiences with many modules...
The aim of this paper is to present a collaborative social platform developed as a research project to enhance serious collaboration between the students of ESPRIT (School of Engineering, Tunis, Tunisia). The platform focuses on automating the creation of opportunistic collaboration between students, based on the type of the tasks conducted (content creation, project realization, problem resolution…),...
One of the main difficulty faced by students after their secondary education, is in taking critical decisions regarding their academic itinerary. As a preliminary approach a web based guidance system has been proposed to help the 10th standard students to select an appropriate stream of study.
A large number of higher education institutes are increasingly embracing online learning. Australia is fairly one of the primarily countries that attracts a large number of international students. A lot of delivery methods have been attempted in higher education to attract students from various environments. Many numbers of students are already taking different mode of online learning such as distance...
To prepare our interested graduate students for careers as engineering educators, a three year graduated teaching experience has been developed combining face-to-face teaching experience with a seminar and workshops to provide some formal training in STEM higher education instruction. The department's “Academic Careers” seminar provides an introduction to the three major aspects of the academic career...
A medium-sized Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) was hosted by Peking University in 2013. Altogether 192 Chinese students came to Peking University and learned face-to-face, another 311 Chinese students participated online. This study targeted one research question: Were there any significant differences between the learning experiences and outcomes of onsite and online students? Although onsite...
The Framework Programmes (FPs) for Research and Technological Development (R&TD) are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the European Research Area (ERA). International R&TD projects play an increasing part in many organizations' R&TD investments. Technology developers of all organizations (industrial companies, small and...
This paper explores the use of analytical rubrics as a form of assessment and feedback in Information Technology (IT) Higher Education. Rubrics are a tool for assessment, however, they can also be used to provide a mapping of learning outcomes and graduate attributes within minimum standards to allow students to evidence their skills beyond the assignment criteria. This paper will discuss how rubrics...
Due to the innovative interactive and collaborative features of Social Networking Sites (SNSs), several opportunities are available to support student engagement and student learning. Despite the pedagogical advantages of these social technologies to support educational use and the high level of use among students in higher education institutions, they often inefficiently used in education. As a result,...
This research paper develops a new method for assessing the effectiveness of learning and teaching technologies and selecting the most suitable learning and teaching technology for development in higher education. The relevant evaluation criteria are provided as a valuable reference for higher education institutions in establishing a standardized means of selecting the most suitable learning and teaching...
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