andfree online learning resources and textbooks.To reward motivation, risk-taking, and persistence, a claw-back incentive was established. Theclaw-back incentive provides an exception to the final exam, which is granted and explained onthe syllabus on the first day of class. The incentive for performing well on the roboticprogramming project will be revoked or 'clawed back' when the performance metrics are not met.Research by economist John A. List found it to be effective in motivating individuals [12], [13].To enhance inclusion, the first day of class was dedicated to establishing a sense of belongingand a learner-centered growth mindset. Students were informed of the risks associated withoffering the course and the opportunity it provided for
. Students are often unaware of what constitutes a violation and of its potential consequences. To address this, we design a standalone, self-paced, online Academic Integrity course module targeted at CS students. Our module aims to increase student awareness about academic misconduct, inform students about the potential consequences of academic misconduct, and educate students about strategies and resources to avoid academic misconduct, incorporating scenarios and information specifically relevant to CS throughout. In this paper, we present the details of the module and report our experiences and analysis from deploying it in eight courses within the CS program at UNC Charlotte in the Spring and Fall of 2021
lab experiments.Table 2 describes how many quizzes and laboratory reports were required to earn a particulargrade [33]. Since grades with “+” or “-”, such as “B+”, could be assigned, a plus was added tothe base grade if a student earned “Pass” scores on at least 13 guided practice and on 7 pre-labassignments in the 2018 course. A minus was added to the base grade if a student earned “Pass”scores on fewer than 7 guided practice or on fewer than 4 pre-lab assignments in the 2018course. The 2019 course used the same requirements for number of quizzes and guided practiceassignments passed to earn a particular grade.Table 2. Course grade requirements from 2018 syllabus. To earn Accomplish the following: this grade: A Earn “Pass
. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/supplemental-learning-tools-for-statics-and-strength-of- materialsAppendix A – Fall 2022 course syllabus The Pennsylvania State University Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Fall 2022 E MCH 213 - Strength of Materials - Section 2 – Fall 2022 GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION Instructor: Dr. Christine B. Masters (she, her, hers) cbm100@psu.edu 208 Hammond Building Textbook: Mechanics of Materials 10th edition, R.C. Hibbeler, Prentice Hall Background: Engineering Mechanics is the
impact on the world.Students track their effort and learning via tokens in an online learning management system(LMS). More importantly, it provides them the opportunity to fail, and learn from their failures.A major problem with the traditional class structure of today is that it relies heavily on thepass/fail aspect of the course, putting pressure on undergraduate students. Most students have not been previously exposed to the material before coming into aclass, yet their final grade suffers if they make a mistake on assignments or tests. Whether theylearned from their mistake or not is irrelevant because their grades have suffered irreversibly.With IBL's structure, students can make mistakes as they learn while still being able to
relevant to consider that the COVID pandemic and abrupt transition to online / hybridlearning may have further eroded students’ math skills and/or left unusual gaps in theirknowledge.A number of studies have explored factors the impact students’ math performance. For example,Hieb et al. [3] found that the performance of engineering students on the exams in a calculus-based Engineering Analysis 1 course in the first semester was correlated with students’ algebrareadiness, time and study environment management, internal goal orientation, and test anxiety.Less related to the higher education context but also relevant may be the findings of Gjcali andLipnevich [10] who found that among 15 year olds their attitudes, subjective norms, andperceived
continuous learning, the first twoproject-based learning courses are intended to be team-taught. The team established guidelinesfor ensuring that collective decision-making remained part of the course development process fornew integrated PBL classes, while ensuring that lead instructors have the necessary autonomy tomove forward with course design and delivery. The intention is that at least three months prior tothe start of the semester, lead instructors will present their course syllabus to the full group fordiscussion and approval. The syllabus will include course outcomes, an outline of coursecontent, a breakdown of assessment plans, and their intended approach to project-based learning,including expected student deliverables. Once approved
videos were developed and recorded for the online module of the new course entitled “Solar PV Planning and Installation”. • Senior Design Project [6] (four students, completed): “Solar-Powered Speed Radar Measurement, Display, and Logging System”. In this project, a solar PV system was designed to power a speed control system including a radar sensor, camera, microprocessor, and data logging system (Figure 10). • Senior Design Project (five students, in progress): “Solar-Tracking PV System Design and Development”. In this project, a PV system is designed and developed with the capability to track the sun based on two degrees of Figure 10. Solar-powered speed radar
textbook, we introduced manyseminars on various topics dealing with different “subjects”. By assigning free-of-charge events,online reading, classroom exercises, and outside activities to assist students in transitioning touniversity-level work and campus culture, the course provides a dynamic atmosphere to build afirst-year class community easy to engage. The overall goal of the First-Year Transition Seminaris to encourage the students to be involved in all available college events and provide students witha solid and rewarding foundation for academic and personal success.KeywordsFirst-year experience, open educational resources, student engagementBackgroundModern universities are designed to foster the students to become competent professionals
) is the lead author and primary data collector and teaching coordinator. SeanFerguson (California State University Channel Islands, CSUCI) has worked with all threemembers of the team in various capacities. As the syllabus suggests, this course aims to“promote engineering humanities education across borders” for the engineering studentsacross the two universities. During the course period, for the purpose of fostering adialogue-based classroom, each NYCU student will be paired with a UST partner to conductinterviews, homework assignments and a collaborative research project. Four teachingformats were used to facilitate the course progress:1. Synchronous Lectures: Synchronous GC was hosted by two instructors from NYCU and UST
ChangesIn addition to difficulty with unit conversions and general problem solving, Professor A noticedmany student-behavior changes post-pandemic. Students in Professor A’s Fall 2020 class hadexperienced less than one semester of online classes while students in their Fall 2022 class couldhave had several semesters of experience with virtual instruction. Professor A attributed thisincreased experience with virtual instruction with student habits, such as choosing not to turn inassignments, skipping class, and deliberately not showing up to exams. Professor A noted thattheir class syllabus is well-defined, yet they have noticed an increase in students’ failure to fulfillclass requirements. Beyond trends of decreasing attendance and student
meaning isgood, beautiful, and true to the degree it reflects the real world; and the reader’s perspective andfeelings about the content are not pertinent to the engineering educational endeavor. From thisin-class training, students are encouraged by the syllabus to engage in author-directed learning(aka reading), pointed to resources for learning about author directed learning7,8, and encouragedto engage with the textbook prior to class to increase the value of instructor-directed learning(aka lecture).7The syllabus is the first means of introducing Student Notes activities hosted and evaluated onthe course LMS. Students are encouraged to take notes that synthesize the major concepts fromthe reading, everything written on the boards in class
knowledge in Survey* (self-reported Course design institute learning-focused pedagogical awareness of evidence-based Mid-semester feedback strategies and student- teaching) consultations centered course design; Syllabus and other artifacts Facilitator informal observations** 2. Work closely with their Survey* (self-reported Course design institute teaching mentor and learn experience with power Respond to and discuss from a cooperative teaching differentials) power dynamics-based experience; Facilitator informal scenario
in the course and their own level of anxiety. A total of 69 studentscompleted the survey where 84% reported the method reduced anxiety (4 or 5 on a Likert scale). Thestudy found that labor based grading was an effective way to reduce student anxiety, reduce academicintegrity issues, and improve student motivation.IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic resulted in rapid changes to many aspects of higher education in STEMincluding the delivery of material, assessment of work, and all communication moving online. Thesechanges upset the status quo and exposed problem areas in our traditional approaches to teaching and ledus to explore a method known as labor-based grading. Labor-based grading is a methodology wherestudent grading is focused on the
. Student responses to the teamwork reflection were encouraging,if not the grounds for statistically significant evidence that reflection supported progress throughTCs.There are a number of opportunities to improve this work as we continue. First, increasing theprominence of the TC in the syllabus/course and the grading weight of the assignment mightreduce the number of non-respondents on the reflections. Currently, the reflection is a smallportion of a much larger holistic grade, so there’s little apparent penalty for not putting effortinto completing it. Second, based on student misconceptions about what prototyping means, andthe lack of insight in the reflections, the prompt in support of the “a team can learn a lot from aprototype” TC needs to
Rutherford, University of DelawareAustin Cory Bart ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work-in-progress: Exploring the computer science curriculum from undergraduate students’ perspectives Abstract—With large attrition rates among computer science (CS) majors, it is clearthat CS undergraduates face challenges completing their degrees. Although much researchhas tested various teaching strategies and how course outcomes are associated with drop-out rate, little attention has been paid to using a bottom-up, student-centered, qualitativeapproach with a large sample to understand how to improve required CS courses andcurricula. In the present study, we investigated CS college students
taught in engineering/business colleges today.We present a roadmap for teaching such a course. We also detail the certification process by SAVEInternational (formerly Society of American Value Engineers). A sample ABET based syllabus, along witha detailed class schedule is also be discussed. After completion of the course, students are eligible totake the Value Methodology Associate (VMA) exam to be certified as VMAs (Value MethodologyAssociates). This certification will be compared to a Lean/Six Sigma certification that is popular withstudents today.BACKGROUNDDesign and Analysis of process, products, and projects are core competencies of business analysts andengineers. In order to develop these competencies, most engineering curricula in
needed. When students post and reply to messages, and read the messages of their peers and give them feedback, this improves the quality of the learning environment dynamics and the richness of the content delivery.• Community Policies: These specify rules and standards of ethical behavior that must be followed. These should be shared with teachers and students at the start of the program. This helps to avoid confusion and inappropriate behavior. Web-based learning requires more internal self-regulation and external supervision. Community policies can provide a schema to help keep specific learning groups engaged in their online courses from beginning to end.In an educational context, the Activity model is a reminder that
-minute lecture class. During the in-class problem-solving session, theinstructor moved around to see each group's progress and help as necessary to keep the groups ontrack. Although students were allowed to work in groups, finally, they had to submit the solutionsindividually for grades. The individual submissions were graded and used to assign students 10%bonus points for fall 2021 and spring 2022 and 10% mandatory points for summer 2022 and fall2022 in their final grades. All the sections used in this study were taught either in hybrid or F2F.Repeated in-class problem-solving for each topic of the course was the only option used. Thisstudy option was a part of the syllabus, and the instructor explained, on the first day of the class,how these
. Johnson, and A. Mcnally, “The Iron Range Engineering (IRE) Model for Project Based Learning in Engineering,” in ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference Proceedings, 2010.[15] Aalborg Universitet, “Examination Policies and Procedures for Examinations at Aalborg University,” Sep. 2022.[16] A. Kolmos, F. K. Fink, and L. Krogh, The Aalborg PBL Model: Progress, Diversity and Challenges. 2007.[17] Naval Postgraduate School, “5.4.9 Oral Qualifying Examination,” Academic Policy Manual, Aug. 19, 2020.[18] Maritime and Coastguard Agency, “MIN 653 – Amendment 1 (M): Deck Oral Exam Syllabus,” 2022. Accessed: Feb. 01, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/min-653-m-deck-oral
and software used to cover this material • Instructional strategies used in courses that cover concepts related to traffic operations, including active learning strategies • Specific topics and concepts covered related to traffic operations • Demographic information about instructorsThe survey consisted of 74 potential questions, though various questions were only presentedbased on responses to previous questions. The questions consisted of mostly multiple choice orfill-in-the-blank responses, and respondents were allowed to upload their course syllabus so theresearch team could extract relevant pieces of information. The survey was electronically codedinto the Qualtrics survey software and took approximately 15 minutes to
with local non-profit organizationsor other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in their classroom.The faculty acknowledges the difficulty of using project-based learning in courses that havemultiple sections and therefore could have multiple instructors who need to agree on astandardized course syllabus, as well as courses that have a high number of enrolled students, asproject-based learning is typically done with smaller groups.Faculty from both business and engineering mentioned the need for resources such as casestudies to aid in incorporating more project-based learning in their courses. Business facultyspecifically mentioned Harvard Business Review case studies. They spoke of how well-regardedthey are in teaching business, but also
, therefore a comparisonof an offline vs online structure is not possible. However, given the nature of the group ofparticipants, informal in-person meetings of the course-based teams have begun. We will beexploring the usefulness of intentionally adding course-based in-person team meetings to theoverall FLC structure.Student data collection: We have been conducting longitudinal interviews with eightundergraduate students who were enrolled in the first MBG re-design. To date we have interviewedstudents twice and are currently in the process of conducting a third interview. The goal of theinterviews have been to understand students’ academic profiles and how these profiles might havechanged as a result of the MBG learning environment. We conceptualize
University,instructed by the authors of this paper, were evaluated (104 total students, roughly 50/50 ratio menand women). They were tasked to analyze a CRISPR/Cas9 publication by R. Barrangou et al. asthe first assignment of the course, then they had a lecture on academic honesty, and they wereasked to repeat the assignment if their similarity score was above 20 % (optional if < 20 %). 29students repeated the assignment.Demographic information (country of origin, undergraduate/graduate background, languages) wascollected from voluntary surveys and combined with the Turnitin data. In cohort 2 (Fall 2022), wecarried a more exhaustive evaluation of academic honesty[10] from a voluntary survey to gageunderstanding of the university guidelines[11
of studies thatshowed how innovation follows a similar cycle as the economy. Although it may still be acoincidence, already since the early 20th century, the economic cycle was also estimated tohave a similar period (Clark 1917) of 7-8 years. In this case, the perceived changes in theindustry as well as some issues in the curriculum led to the start of the revision which wasmade in late 2019.However, in February 2020 COVID-19 reached the Netherlands and switching to a remoteand online situation took precedence. With most of the restrictions behind us, the faculty usedthe moment to restart the revision of the maritime technology bachelor curriculum. Althoughthe delivery of courses was more diversified than before, the content had not received
solution that could be explored is afeature that shows the students how well they performed in relation to their peers by displayingtheir position on an anonymous leaderboard.Core Drives 6 and 7, related to scarcity and unpredictability, also received a below average gradefrom the student. The course followed a predefined syllabus and did not contain anyunannounced elements or activities that could be completed to earn extra credit. While CoreDrives 6 and 7 help maintain user awareness and engagement, they are related to negativemotivation and can make course takers uncomfortable or anxious. Moreover, it was previouslyfound that negative motivators are associated with short-term engagement [15], which is not anideal tool for sustaining student
humankind unique, both individually and as a species, remains unclear. Advances in neuroscience and computer science, as well as ethics, generate questions about the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and personhood and the rights and protections associated with being human. In this course students tackle classic readings from Descartes to modern ruminations on artificial intelligence, examine our relation to our creations and pets, and the way our various identities affect how our personhood is perceived and protected.Some basic information from the course syllabus is described below.Broad Topics covered 1. Basic neuroscience 2. Distinctions between humans and nonhumans 3. Emotional connection and dependencies between
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safety critical settings, using tools such as Monte Carlo Tree Search.Dr. Morgan Louise Hooper, California Institute of Technology After completing her PhD at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Tech- nology (GALCIT), Morgan Hooper is now an Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream) at the University of Toronto. There, her teaching focuses on building community within hands-on Engineering Design courses and beyond. She encourages students to engage with multi-faceted, trans-disciplinary engineer- ing projects to learn the complex ways in which engineering, design, and community interact.Yazmin Gonzalez, California Institute of Technology Yazmin Gonzalez brings over a decade of experience
the “big picture”data pipeline and “what was under the hood” of the platform. This feedback was given to the PIand instructors. Mid-course corrections were made for the Spring CSPII Practica to provide morebasic instruction and in-class mentoring by instructors to allow for a more satisfactory learningexperience, particularly for students with less informatics backgrounds. In addition, a “broadpicture” overview of where bioinformatics fits into research design and the data pipeline as well as provision of a syllabus with detailed learning objectives and timeline beginning Spring 2017 resulted in more positive ratings of the Spring course. Other revisions from the 1st two years are described below. Additional revisions to address challenges