Conference Session

ET Pedagogy II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, while all onlinestudents were assigned a partner through an open process that encouraged students’ input andfacilitated preferences, less than 70% of the online students frequently collaborated with theirpartner. This was determined via a post-course survey. Reasons stated for non-frequentcommunication were mainly personal and scheduling issues. Informal survey (questioning) bythe course instructor during the semester shed some light that the collaboration was not at thelevel he would have preferred. The instructor decided that the best approach might be simply toprovide the opportunity to collaborate and encourage the students to do so, rather than attemptingto enforce cooperation. Hence, while existing technology allowed real-time

Conference Session

ET Pedagogy I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rustin Webster, Purdue University, New Albany

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

method produces the highest learning in specific settings, or with specific kinds of students?” (p. 189). For this case study, the following were the research goals:  Explore the effect of a learning-centered educational paradigm on MET students’ engineering design, problem-solving, communication (written and verbal), and group skill development.  Access student perceptions of the course, instructor, and active learning elements via end- of-semester course evaluations (i.e., indirect assessment).  Answer the call by Streveler and Menekse (2017).DefinitionsAlthough there are no universally accepted definitions for many of the terms used in this paper,the following list is representative of commonly accepted