Conference Session

Faculty Development and Research in ET

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Denton, Purdue University; Nancy Denton, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, conforming to the requirements for training and certification of personnel specified in ISO 18436.2. Certification examinations are offered in over 20 countries through the Vibration Institute and cooperating societies in Canada, Japan, Korea, and Great Britain10. This certification program began in the 1980s as a three-level five-year specialty certification program meeting the needs of VI members and their employers. The Vibration Institute has attempted to include at least one academic member on its certification examination committees to provide expertise on question writing and a more general perspective on the discipline. I joined the fifteen-member Vibration Institute certification examination committee as they transitioned

Conference Session

Technology and Tools for IE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joel Sokol; Garlie Forehand; Beverly Sutley-Fish; Judith Norback

opportunity for enhancing students’ writing and presentingskills because of the communication required between student teams, their clients, and theirprofessors. At the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, jobcommunicative analysis, a systematic approach to identifying the writing and presentingdemands of jobs, has been used to provide the basis for workplace communication instruction.During workplace interviews with practicing industrial engineers, supervisors, and CEOs,information and workplace examples have been collected. The information has been used todevelop a list of criteria for communication excellence: the basis for developing workplacecommunication instruction to integrate with Senior Design. This article

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention--Lower Division

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Abaté; Ramesh Gaonkar

strongfoundation of interdisciplinary concepts supported in a learning community of students andfaculty members. An Integrated Interdisciplinary Program (IIP) that includes electronics,mathematics, writing/reading, and computing skills was designed and implemented in theenvironment of a learning community that emphasized collaborative learning and team work.This program, which is known as the Foundations of Technology Program [NSF Award: DUE99-50019 Advanced Technology Education], is truly an integrated curriculum since the studentsexperience it as a single entity and not as a group of separate experiences. The integration ofcourses and the environment of a learning community has had a dramatic positive impact onretention, which has already increased

Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen M. Groppi P.E., Cabrillo College; Susan Tappero, Cabrillo College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

with an interest in renewable energy or sustainability but, typically,little previous coursework in math or science. Each cohort had 8 student peer leaders orTAs, who were committed STEM majors and served as mentors and teaching assistants.The emphasis was on hands-on activities within small teams in a daily four hour labsetting. An important component was built-in time for tinkering and creativity aroundcontextualized assignments. Unlike most college experiences, the desired outcome was toprovoke interest rather than to impart a specific body of knowledge. Participation,exploration and fun were valued over the rigidity often found in STEM instruction. A widerange of approaches were used including; demonstrations, games, hands-on activities

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John A. Nestor, Lafayette College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Immerwahr at Villanova University [36] andshown in Table 5 [40]. A copy of this rubric was included in the course syllabus to communicatediscussion expectations to students.All FYS courses at Lafayette College are writing courses, and the St. Martin’s Handbook [41] isused as a secondary text for students learning academic writing skills. They employ a process-writing approach in which students submit first drafts which they then revise after feedback froma peer Writing Associate and the instructor.The first writing assignment, which is given out during the first week of class, asks students toreflect on their own lived experience with semiconductor technology in terms of how they learnand work, communicate with friends and family, and seek

Conference Session

Opportunities within Graduate Study Programs - Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard J. Aleong, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Molly H. Goldstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Juan David Ortega, Purdue University, West Lafayette and Universidad EAFIT; Hector Enrique Rodriguez-Simmonds, Purdue University - Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

inquiry group consisted of the authors of this paper as co-researchers and co-subjects and is situated in our shared interest in graduate education andlearning. While we are at different stages of the doctoral program, we have the mutualexperience of completing the first year of the program at the same institution. We engaged in co-operative inquiry sessions, focused on learning within ourselves and with others, to make newmeaning from our experiences. Reflections during the formative first year of doctoral trainingwere explored as well as reflections and memos generated as part of the inquiry process.Through the co-operative inquiry process, this study offers insight into opportunities for peer-to-peer mentorship and learning enrichment in

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne-marie Nickel, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Jennifer Kelso Farrell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Alicia Domack, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Gina Elizabeth Mazzone, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Associate Professor at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. She has a PhD in English Literature (Science Fiction) from Louisiana State University (2007), an MA in English from Montana State University, and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. At LSU, Jennifer was part of the Communication Across the Curriculum (CxC) and worked in the Engineering Communication Studio. Jennifer has published articles in The Leading Edge, Carbon, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Foundation.Dr. Alicia Domack, Milwaukee School of Engineering I am associate professor and chair of the Humanities, Social Science, and Communication department at MSOE. I am also the IRB Director at MSOE. My background is in Developmental

Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharnnia Artis, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

]. Self-efficacy beliefs change over thecourse of enrollment with vicarious experience, or comparison of personal performance to that ofothers, becoming more important as students progress through their coursework at the collegelevel [10]. Female engineering students tend to have lower self-efficacy than male peers,reporting that they perceived they were not able to perform as well as their peers [10]. Self-efficacy has been shown to influence engineering students’ self-regulated learning behaviors andGPA [11]. Faculty member’s accessibility can influence self-efficacy, providing opportunitiesfor faculty interaction and feedback to students can reinforce positive experiences and buildstudents’ self-efficacy beliefs across domains [11]. The

Collection

ASEE Middle Atlantic 2022 Fall Conference

Authors

Raymond K.F. Lam, The City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Dugwon Seo, Queensborough Community College; Merlinda Drini; Guozhen Tony An, CUNY Queensborough Community College

before necessary knowledge was taught instead ofgiving a lecture first for required programming functions. Students were asked to team up withthree to four people in a group. It was an online class setting, thus the breakout rooms from themeeting platform (e.g., ZOOM©) were utilized for group discussion. The first day of the projectwas spent understanding and discussing the problem among the group members. The studentswere asked to write a note of their discussions and ideas. It was recommended to take a role foreach group member to distribute their responsibilities – team leader, programmer, reporter, andpresenter. In the next class, students shared their ideas of how problems could be solved. Thesolution was driven by student inquiries not by

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeong Woo; Blake Wentz, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Construction

AC 2010-1581: USE OF WIKIS IN CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONJeong Han Woo, Milwaukee School of Engineeirng Dr. Woo has been an active researcher in the field of Architectural Engineering and Construction Management, especially in BIM, building energy efficiency, and construction information technologies. He presented his research findings numerously at Construction Research Congress, ISARC (International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction), ACADIA (Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture), ASC (Associated Schools of Construction), and ASEE (American Society of Engineering Education). Dr. Woo’s papers are published in peer-reviewed journals in the field, such as

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Laboratory Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Sahar Tariq, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

has been shown to improve lab report writing in some cases, and can boost higher levelthinking. Report writing has also been improved by using peer review and revision to target poorgrammar and spelling as well as technical issues.7 Electronic lab notebooks have been used toimprove the ability of students to analyze their data and keep track of design decisions, whichcould be particularly helpful for experimental design activities.8 Lab reports have been written ingroups, or even during lab, in order to improve both the mechanics of report writing and thequality of the results through peer interaction and modeling from the instructor.9 The majority ofthese methods concentrate heavily on the writing aspect of lab reports, but tend to spend

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Abhaya Datye; Marina Miletic; Jamie Gomez; Eva Chi; Sang M. Han; Catherine Hubka; Yan Chen; Vanessa Svihla; Sung Kang; Heather Canavan

empower them to solve these problems [2- 7]. This paper presents the structure, sequence, and requirements of these team-based design projects as they form a spine across required chemical engineering courses. Participants are undergraduate students studying chemical engineering in the Southwest United States. Variety and Sequence of Design Challenges Design Challenges in the first year course (CBE 101: Introduction to Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering) have involved a blend of student presentations (pitches), research, writing, and lab work framed within three projects of varying scope and application:1. Students complete an entrepreneurship- and research-based project where they pitch

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Manuel Rossetti, University of Arkansas; Edward Pohl, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas; Xintao Wu, University of Arkansas; Ronna Turner, University of Arkansas; Wenjuo Lo, University of Arkansas; Jeffrey Offord, University of Arkansas

-peer interaction is to form social cohesion between the students anddevelop a shared purpose. In addition, the bootcamp provides for engagement between thestudents and the faculty that execute the bootcamp units. The faculty-student engagement hasbeen shown to be a key factor in retention.The expected outcomes from the MDaS Bootcamp include: • Students recognize each other and form long-term peer connections. • Students recognize and become comfortable with project faculty. • Students can explain the types of work data scientists perform and their potential impact. • Students can write scripts within Python that enable them to solve basic problems using data science methods

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kimberly B. Demoret P.E., Florida Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

students” to improve learning within the university.based on the idea of students teaching and learning from each other. Student attitudes aboutteaching and learning from peers are explored, along with the relative importance of factors Background and Motivationhighlighted in the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) of intrinsic motivation- autonomy, masteryand relatedness (i.e., feeling a connection to a larger group). The first approach described is the The work in this paper was motivated by a desire to improve student performance in Aerospaceuse of capstone design projects with explicit educational objectives to enhance the hands-on Engineering (AE) capstone design at a mid-sized southeastern private university. At this school

Conference Session

Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Bowles-Terry, University of Wyoming; Larry Schmidt, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

databases in order to select the most appropriate database and maximize relevancy of search results. 2. Students will be able to develop topic-related vocabulary in order to search databases with maximum flexibility and effectiveness. 3. Students will be able to describe the difference between a peer-reviewed article and a popular article in order to select appropriate resources for use in an academic research project.Once we identified the most important learning outcomes for the session, we identified ways inwhich students could learn those skills, practice them, and then demonstrate (for assessmentpurposes) their proficiency.Constructivist learning theory tells us that starting with what students already know

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Fisher

Seminar in Critical Inquiry ………………… 3 Science elective .......……………………………………………… 4 18 hrs Second Semester BE 1205 Graphic Fundamentals …………………….. 2 ENGL 1312 Research and Critical Writing …………….. 3 MATH 1312 Calculus II ………………………………… 3 HIST 1301 History of U.S. to 1865 …………………… 3

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terrell Lamont Strayhorn, The Ohio State University; Leroy L. Long III, Ohio State University; Michael Steven Williams, The Ohio State University; Marjorie Luce Dorimé-Williams, Baruch College; Derrick L. Tillman-Kelly, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

student population, despite decades of supportive research. The present studysought to estimate the educational benefits that accrue to undergraduate engineering studentswho interact with diverse peers and perspectives. Furthermore, differences across gender andrace were explored. Multi-institutional survey data were analyzed for over 100 undergraduateengineering students using a 2007 administration of the National Survey of Student Engagement(NSSE). Findings show that encouraging contact among students from different economic,social, or racial/ethnic backgrounds can produce greater perceived learning gains amongstengineering students.IntroductionIn recent reports, based in part on the Supreme Court’s rulings in affirmative action cases at

Conference Session

Classroom Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew E. Jackson, East Carolina University; Sherion H. Jackson, Grand Canyon Univeristy

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

teams to work effectively. Other issues that need to be taught are: how to handlesuccesses and failures and how to use peer evaluations to improve teamwork (Vik, 2001)12.What is teamwork?Teamwork is a technique that allows individual team members to work together to achieve acommon goal (Barkley & Saylor, 2001)1. In their gook entitled: Customer –Driven ProjectManagement, Barkley and Saylor spell out teamwork as specifically involving the followingattributes:  Trust  Effective communication, especially listening  A positive “can do “ attitude  Motivation to perform and improve  “We” mentality  “Ownership” of work with pride  Respect and consideration

Conference Session

Liberal Education Division Technical Session 11

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Hannah Sabo; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, Walden, & Trytten, 2007; Secules, Gupta, Elby, & Turpen, 2018). Our team has been engaged in the iterative redesign of a pedagogy seminar for engineering peer educators working within a college-level introduction to engineering design course. Using tools of discourse analysis, we analyze how technocratic stances are reproduced or challenged in engineering peer educators’ talk during pedagogy seminar discussions. We study peer educators, in particular, because they are in a unique position to do harm if the ideologies of meritocracy and technocracy aren't challenged. Likewise, they are in a unique position to do good if they actively disrupt these ideologies in

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjeev M Kavale, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

onmindsets that are discipline-specific, including maker mindset [8] and the entrepreneurialmindset [9]. The extant literature on mindsets is abundant and highlights the need for relevantmindsets toward specific task performance [9] – [11].The term ‘research mindset’ has been used by some researchers [10]–[12], but has yet to beexplicitly defined. A few studies call out the presence of research mindset and the relatedconstruct of researcher identity [13], [14]. Efforts in this space aim to better understand howmindset plays a role as researchers engage in various research tasks like defining researchproblems, conducting literature reviews, designing and conducting experiments, writing upresults, and working on a research team. Research is a task, or

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session - Innovative Teaching Strategies II

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Alexander, Texas A&M University - Kingsville; NAZMUL RAHMANI, Texas A&M University - Kingsville

are their client, and graduates are their final product.There are experiences and skills developed from working in industry that can help a new facultymember in transitioning to an academic position [2, 4]. These include flexibility, trying newthings, having an enthusiastic attitude, and effective time management [5]. Conversely, thereare certain skills that could be helpful to a new academic that are not likely to have beendeveloped while in an industrial position [3]. These skills or experiences include motivatingstudents to learn, assisting struggling students, effective course planning and delivery, starting anindependent research program, obtaining external funding, writing rigorous assignments andtests, handling students in the

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Judith E. Miller; James E. Groccia; David DiBiasio

Bloom were studied and discussed. An essential component was cooperative and active learning techniques. This included course design for cooperative learning and task design for effective structuring of cooperative learning activities. Students were exposed to a novel method of CL management that has been developed at WPI. For the past three years, we have had a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation to improve educational quality and faculty productivity through peer-assisted cooperative learning. In the Davis model, qualified upperclass undergraduates are hired to serve as peer learning assistants (PLAs) in courses where cooperative learning structures are used extensively. These

Conference Session

Track: Special Topic - Computing & Technology Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Elsa Q. Villa, University of Texas, El Paso; Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting; Heather Thiry, Golden Evaluation ; David S. Knight, The University of Texas, El Paso; Elizabeth Fomby Hall, The University of Texas, El Paso; Andrea Tirres, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Special Topic: Computing & Technology

- tor in the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). As manager for the CAHSI INCLUDES Alliance, she works on a national basis to coordinate and motivate regional leads; facilitate CAHSI’s External Advisory Board; and serve as a liaison to CAHSI’s policy team, all so that CAHSI’s 60 partners can collectively realize the Alliance’s vision of Hispanics repre- senting 20% or more of those who earn credentials in computing by the year 2030. In her role in UTEP’s Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, Elizabeth assembles interdisciplinary project teams and em- beds herself within them in order to conceptualize, write, and submit large, institutional grant proposals

Conference Session

Survivor: The First Few Years

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Ana Elisa Goulart, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

are difficult for a variety of reasons, including the lackof preparation and experience that new faculty members have for various aspects of the job.Much advice has been given regarding the use of mentoring and workshops to accelerate theacclimatization period, but these methods may not involve the relaxed atmosphere and opendiscussion conducive to the development and free exchange of ideas and ideologies. In thispaper, we discuss our approach of regular peer meetings of such discussions. Peer meetingspromote the discussion of problems encountered by new faculty as the problems develop. Notonly does discussing problems in such meetings assist in the creation of solutions, but everyonewho participates in the discussion is thereafter prepared

Conference Session

An Examination of Methods to Enhance Transfer Student Enrollment, Retenion, Persistence, and Outcomes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Surendra K. Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Daniel P. Johnson, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Mike Eastman, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Vincent Joseph Amuso Sr., Rochester Institute of Technology; John Morelli, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST)

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

students, and an endorsement of the goals andobjectives of the TiPi program.In Fall 2012, we awarded 25 scholarships to transfer students in the TiPi program. In Fall 2013,we awarded another set of 25 scholarships to new transfer students in our engineering andtechnology programs. This paper describes the characteristics of these 50 scholars, comparestheir academic performance relative to their peers, and their placement in paid cooperativeemployment positions.IntroductionIn March 2012, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded our university a four-year grantof $599,984 with the grant period beginning in June 2012 for a project titled TiPi: Engineering& Engineering Technology Pipeline. The TiPi project focuses on students who wish to

Conference Session

Remediation and Curricular Changes to Improve Student Learning and Outcomes

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen Guest, Clemson University; Jason Brown

based physics courses (Physics I and II). This has allowed me the unique opportunity to teach most of the students in Clemson's undergraduate engineering program. I have also taught a few Physics majors courses. Since 2017, I have also participated in Clemson engineering's PEER/WISE experience (PWE) which seeks to prepare incoming freshmen (especially under-represented groups) for the rigors of college life. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com Promoting Women and Minorities in Engineering: A Summer Program for Incoming FreshmenAbstractSince 2017 our institution has hosted, through a special

Conference Session

Educating the Whole Engineer - Building Life Skills

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate Thomes, University of Pittsburgh; Beth Bateman Newborg, University of Pittsburgh; Kate Joranson, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh; Steven Abramowitch, University of Pittsburgh; Carol Washburn, University of Pittsburgh; Carol Baker, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

crucial CompositionProgram and ABET objectives, we review here the development of the first 2 writingassignments freshman engineering students encounter. The actual E/FEWP writing assignmentsthat all freshman engineering students must complete are available upon request.E/FEWP: Assignment #1Dan Budny has a program in which upperclassmen act as peer mentors to incoming freshmen. Togain a sense of their students’ background, interests and accomplishments, the mentors ask thefreshmen students to write letters of recommendation about themselves for an imaginaryengineering scholarship. As the E/FEWP faculty, directed by Beth Newborg, began developingthe program’s curriculum, they immediately saw the usefulness of this peer mentoring exercise.The E

Conference Session

Design Communications

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Riddell, Rowan University; Maria Simone, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Peter Mark Jansson, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

and design has proven significantly more challenging thanintegrating writing and design. Even when public speaking deliverables are directly tiedto a design project, students often feel that the presentation is an afterthought. Indeed, inmany cases the design is completed (or a significant milestone is reached) before thepresentation is prepared. Thus, public speaking is often associated with design, but not asan integral part of designing. In this course, students give several mid-semesterpresentations as part of an ongoing design project, where they are given feedback byengineering faculty and their peers. As a result of this feedback, many students havecome to realize that this form of communication is an important part of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Students' Professional Skills and Reflection

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jacob Allen Cress P.E., University of Dayton; Patrick W. Thomas, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Aviation in Cincinnati, Ohio, leading the certification effort for the LEAP-1A/1C HPC airfoil vibratory stress responses. Dr. Cress received his doctoral and master’s degrees from the University of Notre Dame, both in aerospace engineering; and his undergraduate bachelors of mechanical engineering degree from the University of Dayton.Dr. Patrick W. Thomas, University of Dayton Dr. Patrick W. Thomas is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in English at the University of Dayton. His research interests include workplace literacy, writing technologies, empirical methodologies, computer-mediated communication, and professional and technical writing instruction. Since 2011, he has taught a variety of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Darrell Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

generaldiscussion forum, a Professor Digest (for our own reflections), and a forum focused on studentssharing their creative journeys. For logistical support, we also set up a forum where studentscould self-organize study groups, as well as forums to address technical issues, errors in coursematerials, and suggestions/complaints about the course. The discussion forums served as themain mechanism for peer assessment of projects (for Adventurers), as we will discuss later.The Idea CloudIn addition to our own core content, we also posted supplemental writings and videos in aseparate section within the MOOC site called the Idea Cloud. Some of the videos were invitedguest speakers from our own professional networks, whose expert commentary served asvaluable