Conference Session

Maker Communities and Authentic Problem Solving

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Scott Sheppard Jr., Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Educational Research and Methods

• Provide guidance for improving the quality of courses • Certify the quality of online and blended college courses across institutionsMethodsWe utilized a case study approach15 of three mezzanine engineering courses at Arizona StateUniversity. These courses were selected to reflect three distinct required subject areas that fallwithin the mezzanine: statistics, robotics, and statics and dynamics. This institution uses a projectspine curricular approach, meaning that students are required to complete a project-based class inevery semester of the program. Mezzanine courses can be described as courses that align withand intellectually support the students’ current and future project courses. Our interview protocolincluded prompts to explore

Conference Session

Practice II: Curricular Innovations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Behbahanian, Utah State University; Erin L. Davis, Utah State University; Nick A. Roberts, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Educational Resources (OER) are freely accessible, open licensed materials that can includetext, media, or other digital formats and are created for teaching, learning, and supporting research[1–4]. OER and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are changing the ways in which peoplelearn all over the world [5, 6]. These new approaches to education are a response to the lack ofaccess to and the increasing cost of education throughout the developing and developed world.Overcoming the disparity in educational access worldwide, and even just within the United States,is a long-term goal of OER and MOOCs, but to be successful will require the support of gov-ernments and agencies that regulate education [7]. Another benefit to OER is a reduced cost tostudents

Conference Session

Institutional Change

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sam Spiegel, Colorado School of Mines; Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines; Jennifer Zoltners Sherer, University of Pittsburgh

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Educational Research and Methods

includes experiences as both a middle school and high school science teacher, teaching science at elementary through graduate level, developing formative as- sessment instruments, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in science and science education, working with high-risk youth in alternative education centers, working in science museums, designing and facilitating online courses, multimedia curriculum development, and leading and researching profes- sional learning for educators. The Association for the Education of Teachers of Science (AETS) honored Dr. Spiegel for his efforts in teacher education with the Innovation in Teaching Science Teachers award (1997). Dr. Spiegel’s current efforts focus on

Conference Session

Active Learning Methods in Action

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sourajeet Roy, Colorado State University; Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University; Ali Pezeshki, Colorado State University; Tom Chen, Colorado State University; Thomas J. Siller, Colorado State University; Anthony A. Maciejewski, Colorado State University; Laura B. Sample McMeeking, Colorado State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Electromagnetic Fields I. In the spring semester, they are required to take thefollow-on courses: Electronic Principles II, Linear System Analysis II, and ElectromagneticFields II. In each of these courses, the syllabus was broken down into the basic concepts by thevery instructors who have been teaching these courses for many years. In so doing, concepts thatmay be important but not fundamental to a course was packaged into other appropriate courses.The concepts that remained behind were considered to be the very fundamental concepts, alsoreferred to as the anchoring concepts. Typically, each course has five designated anchoringconcepts. The content material relevant to each anchoring concept was cast into a learning studiomodule (LSM). Thus, there are

Conference Session

Institutional Change

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashish Agrawal, Virginia Tech; Cassandra J. Groen, Virginia Tech; Amy L. Hermundstad Nave, Virginia Tech; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Thomas Martin, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Educational Research and Methods

, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring communication, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Paper ID #21645design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development,her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication, effective teaching practices indesign education, the effects of differing design pedagogies on retention and