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Integration of Discord Application as a Communication Tool in Undergraduate Engineering Courses

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Conference

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Location

Arlington, Virginia

Publication Date

March 12, 2023

Start Date

March 12, 2023

End Date

March 14, 2023

Conference Session

Communications and Ethics

Tagged Topic

Professional Engineering Education Papers

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45019

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/45019

Download Count

143

Paper Authors

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Morgan Green Mississippi State University

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Morgan Green is an Instructor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Mississippi State University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education, where her research is focused on the development and assessment of professional skills in engineering students. Other areas of interest and research are engineering education outreach and the application of hands-on learning in engineering students. She is the founder and Director of Project ENspire, an engineering outreach event for 4th-6th grade girls now in its eight year.

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Abstract

A significant portion of teaching an undergraduate lecture course is answering student questions. Besides attending office hours, the next method students typically use to contact the instructor outside of class is email. An instructor’s inbox then becomes full of student emails, and many times more than one student asks the same question, leading the instructor to spend time completing essentially duplicate tasks. Then there is the opposite issue – students are not emailing the instructor due to reasons such as lack of approachability, confusion, etc. This study evaluates the use of an additional communication tool in a large undergraduate engineering course. An instructor at a regional university created a Discord server with categories containing various channels for each of their two courses taught in the Fall 2022 semester. This study will explore the pros and cons of using Discord for both disseminating course information, answer student questions, and receiving student feedback.

Green, M. (2023, March), Integration of Discord Application as a Communication Tool in Undergraduate Engineering Courses Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--45019

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