first-year students a shared opportunity to successfully make the academic and socialtransition to university life. Seminar activities and programs are designed to prepare students fortheir first year and beyond. Students receive instruction in the course from a faculty/staffmember and an upper-level student instructor who both facilitate this unique universityexperience”14.Though an optional course, approximately 50% of first-year WMU students take either a generalor themed FYE 2100. The “classic” sections and the “themed” sections of FYE 2100 all share acommon syllabus and course objectives, including an introduction to college-level research,extra-curricular activities and assignments, and participation in the University Common Readproject
coding and statisticalanalysis), watched online lecture videos that facilitate a flipped-class teaching mode, completeddaily in-class quizzes to record their attendance while capturing their current understanding ofcourse topics, and took three required written exams. All of the assignments, lecture videos,quizzes, and exams were common across the sections. 4The course elements described above facilitate students’ achievement of four course goals. Thegoals, as stated on the syllabus, were to:1. Practice making evidence-based engineering decisions on diverse teams, guided by professional habits,2. Develop problem-solving, modeling, and design skills that you will use as an engineer,3. Learn how to
tasks outside of meetings.Uniform SyllabiA uniform format for course syllabi has been used for many years. The assessment committeeperiodically reviews and updates the syllabus template. The syllabus is divided into two majorparts. The part A consist of a uniform format that contains the same major elements for allcourses, regardless of the instructor teaching the course. Part B varies based on who is teachingthe course. Part B is used for information on office hours, grading policy, or any otherinformation provided by the instructor. A sample of part A of a course syllabus is included in theAppendix.Uniform Course AssessmentA uniform format for course assessment of SOs has been used for many years. The assessmentcommittee periodically reviews
CL. Theories of Group Processes. London : London ; 1975.13. Turns JA, Sattler B, Yasuhara K, Borgford-Parnell JL, Atman CJ. Integrating reflection into engineering education. 2014.14. Peuker S, Landis RB. Workshop A - Implementing the “ Design Your Process of Becoming a World Class Engineering Student ” Project. 2013:8-9.AppendixTable A.1: Typical Introduction to Engineering Careers Course ScheduleWeek Day One Day Two Reading Quiz Reflection Topic Assignment Topic Syllabus Overview Getting to Know 1 Introductions Newspaper Towers Newspaper Towers Highline
most content-heavy courses in a traditional Mechanical Engineeringcurriculum by including many Active Learning teaching and learning techniques. In this practice-based research project, the authors attempted to answer the following questions: 1) Could thestudents learn the breadth and depth of the content via Active Learning, 2) How do the studentsvalue the Active Learning experience as compared to a traditional approach and 3) Is the facultyexperience such that it would motivate them to use Active Learning techniques in the future? Inorder to answer these questions, the course was redesigned to eliminate traditional lecturing andthe solving of example problems by the instructor. Instead example problems are placed online tobe reviewed by the
“Tailored Instruction and EngineeringDelivery Using PROTOCOLs” (TIED UP). In ‘tailored instruction’, the course syllabus will bere-organized into an integrated modular concept format where complex engineering conceptswill be presented as networked sub concepts in a web interface, creating a virtual neural space.Each of these networked concepts and sub-concepts will be further linked to several learningtools such as animations, short concept lecture videos (4-6 minute duration) and mandatedstudent activities that are designed leveraging latest insights from established theories of neuroand cognitive science with the help of a number of PROTOCOLs. PROTOCOLs are systematicbrain based learning principles to be followed while delivering a new concept
their sensor system, which is fabricated forthe students to populate. There are two main motivations for this. First, having their system on aPCB instead of a regular solderless breadboard helps to meet the weight requirements for theballoon launch. Second, providing students with early exposure to the PCB design process willimprove their efficiency in later projects by minimizing the time required to get a custom PCBup and running. Currently, a student’s first attempt at completing a PCB may come in their 3rd or4th year project when a more complex design is required. In such cases, their projectdevelopment time is greatly increased. The ECE 110 course was offered for the second time inthe Spring 2016 session. The syllabus for ECE 110 is in
learningcontents and transferring knowledge to online students. An effective course management systemprovides an important foundation by serving as a tool that allows instructors to create coursecontent and conduct interactions with students7.Instructional DesignInstructional design defines how a course is structured and can influence the learningenvironment. There are many elements that affect instructional design such as objectivesclarification, quality of the contents, learning strategies, learning motivation, and learningassessment18. Researchers describe objectives clarification as including a syllabus and learningpathways that must be provided to online students for successful course delivery22. Otherresearchers believe that strong contents can
). These courses are often astudent’s first experience with math beyond what they learned in high school. They providecritical prerequisite skills for both Engineering and Computer Science students, and for many,they represent a barrier to not only success, but also entry into those programs. In January of2014, CTU had a 50% withdraw rate in Pre-calculus, and in the summer of that year, we sawsimilar results in Trigonometry. Although we could not determine exact numbers, we knew fromspeaking with faculty and advisors that students were leaving Engineering because they couldnot get past these two critical math courses. The university had seen improvement in studentmastery of course objectives in the prerequisite College Algebra course online, and
Mathematics, and a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a Registered Mechanical Engineer in California, and a Designated Engineering Representative (DER) for the FAA. He resides in California with his wife and three children. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Scaling-up a MOOC at a state university in a cost-effective mannerAbstractEducation in the world is changing rapidly. Online course offerings are increasing at anexponential rate as universities attempt to meet the needs of a diverse global community oflearners. Amidst this potpourri of online courses, massive open online courses (MOOCs) areemerging as an alternative way to educate a multifarious group of learners worldwide
SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SATFigure 3: Students accessed the Blackboard site over 32,000 times, an average of 232 views perstudent during one semester of Molecules and Cells.The Blackboard course site and syllabus links provide access to over 100 videos, animations, andsimulations. The videos are generally under five minutes and give the student a quick firstexposure to the terms and concepts which will be covered in more depth during the lecture.Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 8-9, 2016 GWUBased on survey data, 30% of the students took advantage of these online resources. Thesimulations on Blackboard allowed students to work through multiple scenarios, such as theeffect of varying concentrations of an enzyme inhibitor
platform.The relation between CDIO and these platforms are shown in Fig. 2. These platforms areillustrated below.1) Teaching integration platformThis platform can integrate, manage and adapt a variety of teaching resources withcustomization features including e-learning systems, virtual training or simulation systems,online to offline teaching laboratories, etc. The platform is employed for the management ofhandouts, simulation, courseware, practice, exams, and students, and it covers all teachingtasks of the required courses of related product projects. After learning all task-specificknowledge points involved in a CDIO product project, students can access and learn allneeded knowledge and skills to complete the project, for example, the application
the course was inconsistency across the various sections. Even when the same syllabus was used across sections, the fact that some students could not register in the section taught by their favorite instructor was a source of dissatisfaction. 3.2 approach # 2: several large lecture sections With this approach, classes were held in large auditoriums holding between 200 to 300 students in each session, with the same instructor teaching all lectures. The Advantages: This approach provided the much needed consistency in terms of syllabus, teaching style, exam difficulty, and workload across all class sections. Additionally, the staffing requirements
;V), they cite challenges such as the need for increasingcoverage of verification and validation while reducing costs, coping with complexity and scale ofsystems when performing verification and validation, and the inability to apply formal methodsat appropriate abstraction levels, especially for a typical engineer.The Embedded Systems Survey found that university professional development courses came in8th place with respect to the respondents’ self-assessment of effectiveness. Only 18 percentbelieved that such courses were effective compared to 43 percent for online training courses.The amount of self-reported training per year decreased almost 25 percent from 2012 to 2013from 11.7 days to 9 days. It would appear that University degree
and how to measure the quality of software and the development process itself (a, e)• To comprehend the software testing and quality assurance processes for both traditional and distributed projects (a, g)• To apply testing and quality assurance concepts to small-scale software projects (a, c, e, g, k)• To comprehend formal verification methods (a, e) The course was designed to include in-class learning through group problem-solving andtraditional lectures, out-of-class learning through online lectures and/or research literaturereading for selected topics, and a semester-long team project focused on application of testingtechniques as well as performing QA activities. Additionally, graduate students were required tocomplete a
students rated the environments forfavorability in the beginning of the semester and decided whether or not they would go tothe classroom during the course hours listed on the syllabus and how their learning wouldbe facilitated. The “soft classroom” was the students’ first choice, over the “hybridclassroom” and “hard classroom.” Therefore, they were not required to attend theclassroom physically. In addition, the students were responsible for their own pace oflearning, without their learning progress being regularly checked. The instructor andteaching assistants were still available in the classroom during the course hours to interactwith students. To understand how the “soft classroom” worked and helped students tolearn, the authors distributed a
in the semester (as reading assignments are due at8am preceding the 11am class time). After the second assignment where fewer studentsparticipated, the instructors reiterated the syllabus, which included 5% of the total course gradebeing awarded for participating in the zyBook. Next, the participation jumped to nearly thewhole class with ninety students completely finishing Sections 1.7 to 1.9, eleven studentspartially completing the assignment, and only 4 students not completing the reading. Overall,data from the entire semester will be included in the talk. 1.7to1.9 ZyBookSections 1.3to1.6 0
by an ethics professor,and a heuristics assignment. Each module contained the same underlying format, but differed inthe case studies analyzed. The second project team chose the complexity of the case studiesaccording to the class difficulty and picked case studies that were relevant to the class topic toencourage student interest. Modules were implemented into three engineering courses at thefreshman, sophomore, and senior level. The goal of the ethics modules was to be easy toincorporate into an already established engineering syllabus, peak student interest in ethics, andprovide some baseline exposure to ethics and give instruction as to how to analyze and handle anethical dilemma. Junior classes were not available for implementing the
together. Share your teaching philosophy and goals for the classwith your graduate teaching assistants. Tell them what inspires and motivates you to teach thecourse, and how you are seeking to improve it based on previous experiences. Ask them whythey are teaching this course, what they hope to get out of it, and what their previous teachingexperience has been. Invite them to set goals with you: personal goals for the own teaching, aswell as group goals for teaching the course.Share student learning objectives, ABET requirements, and your course syllabus with yourgraduate teaching assistants at this meeting. Communicate the key course deliverables orassignments, topics, and policies. Describe your typical approach to grading. Coordinate to setup a
that the best time for the workshop would be at thebeginning of the fall semester. Some faculty deemed the workshop so relevant to their classesthat they decided to include it in their syllabus for the fall and make it mandatory for theirstudents to participate. One other very important idea suggested by faculty was that theworkshop be recorded and made available online so that it could be available to those notparticipating in the workshop and enabling its content be reused in future courses. This initialplanning step also helped secure the faculty speakers for the campus session.The faculty enthusiasm was so great that the news about the workshop reached multiple officeson campus that were interested in offering event support. The Division
unfamiliarwith fantasy role-playing games.Much like GamerCard, the gamification in these classes included both quests and experiencepoints, but narrative was also a major factor for Toth and Kayler’s system. The need for anengaging narrative is grounded in the level of immersion needed to keep the role-playingmeaningful. Since GamerCard does not focus on role-playing, the quests are not ascontextualized. One might argue that such narrative is effective, but would make a system moredifficult to incorporate into a variety of courses, as extraneous effort would be demanded of theinstructor to come up with activities relevant to the existing syllabus.2.3 Gamification of Game DesignOther universities are trying out similar gamification strategies. O’Donovan
science education 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
timefor active learning tools so as to engage the students for further digestion of the knowledge in thecontext of industry practices. Students are expected to be prepared outside of the classroombeforehand, with assigned textbook readings or reviewing of online materials.For ease of dissemination and, more importantly delivery, an instructor packet consisting ofsample course syllabus, pre/post-tests, mid-term/final exam samples, and the active learningtools has been created. Each active learning tool module consists of the following components: a) Active learning tool description b) Instruction notes c) Student handout d) Assessment instrumentThe active learning tools are built on basic knowledge and engage the students in
course with formal laboratoryreports that is taught within our department. From having taught both the Introduction to Engineer-ing and Mechanics of Materials course for multiple semesters, my observations are consistent withthose of Roig. Some students are legitimately unclear as to what constitutes plagiarism and appro-priate citation, and that even among faculty, there is, again, a gray area, subject to interpretation ordiscussion. 21,22In response to this perceived need, I have added and adjusted components designed to both edu-cate students and enforce policies regarding academic integrity. From the outset, I have includeda succinct syllabus statement regarding academic integrity with links to the campus policy andprocedures. Realizing that
well-written justification for identifiable key assignments as reported in [4] is used. The idea is to setin place the process of “plan-teach-assess” in every core course. A well-constructed syllabus isthe planning stage. During teaching is when the course portfolio with supporting evidence iscollected. Finally, the FCAR is the assessment stage of the course. Figure 5 illustrates theassessment process that involves each faculty not only at the course level, but also to call themeeting for the SO that he/she is responsible for based on the courses listed in the PVT. Figure 5: SO assessment process using FCAR methodologyIn this case, we adopted EvalTools® [18], which is the only online tool that facilitates the FCARassessment
subset of therequired courses in the program.This analysis is performed and reported by the PAO and instructor of each course. Theyestablish the instruments to be used to assess each outcome. These are typically questionsembedded in student assignments, exams, interviews, questionnaires` or other evaluativemechanisms. PAO also supplies the relevant statistics for the course. These include thenumber of students, the grading scale and the average score for the embedded question, thepercentage of students who achieved the outcome. Finally, the course instructor makes anyrelevant comments regarding the achievement of the outcome. In addition, he prepares a set ofcourse materials, which includes the course syllabus, copies of the instruments used to
-long course, they could also be used as modules to incorporate societal orsustainable thinking in other courses on building design. To facilitate adaptation by others, thecomplete assignment sheets and grading criteria for the key assignments are provided online. Thefinal section of the paper assesses the curriculum in terms of student achievement of learningobjectives, and changes in student perceptions of building design and sustainability during thecourse. The assessment is based on the first offering of the course and examines (a) feedbackfrom students during university-administered course questionnaires, (b) examples of studentwork, and (c) a pre- and post-survey on student perceptions about buildings.Course overviewThis course aims to
’: Assessing the Value of Crowdsourced, User-Generated Metadata.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 9(1).[7] Frost, C. (2016). Art Criticism Online: A History. Gylphi Ltd. Press.[8] Sample, M. (N.D.). “Digital Studies at Davidson College.” Course Syllabus.[9] Sayers, J. (N.D.). “Kits for Cultural History.” Course Syllabus.[10] Douglas, E. P. (2015). “Engineering as a Space of White Privilege.” Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, 5(1).[11] Riley, D. M. (2013, June). “The Island of Other: Making Space for Embodiment of Difference in Engineering.” Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. https://peer.asee.org/22606.[12] Riley, D. M. (2014, June). “What’s Wrong with Evidence? Epistemological Roots and Pedagogical
pedagogicalcontent knowledge [13]; several examples of work created by faculty members from previousSFIP sessions to calibrate the participants’ expectations on deliverables; examples from EannPatterson’s use of Everyday Engineering Examples in the classroom and the use of the Five E’s:Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate [14, 15]; presentation of new textbooks andworkbooks that take into account innovative teaching techniques, for example, references [16]and [17]; innovation of grade distributions in engineering courses to include the“comprehension” cognitive level in Bloom’s taxonomy; discussion on how to prepare exams andhow to assist students in preparing for them; the use of innovative Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs) as a potential
statistically significantly increased across all constructs in our StudentEngagement survey, which included constructs such as computing confidence, computingenjoyment, computing perceived usefulness, motivation to succeed in computing, identity andbelonging in computing, and intention to persist. In addition, students showed statisticallysignificant gains from pre to post testing on a content knowledge assessment targeting computerprogramming (not specific to EarSketch). More results will be included in future publications.Claims about EarSketch and its effectiveness in various capacities will be strengthened as morehigh schools are added to the study over the next two years.MOOC: EarSketch has been offered as part of a massive open online course