A Comparison between Blended and Online Teaching Method for Statics Course: a perspective in a Community College

Edwin Lim

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Conference: ASEE Southeast Section Conference
Location: Arlington, Virginia
Publication Date: March 12, 2023
Start Date: March 12, 2023
End Date: March 14, 2023
Conference Session: Mechanical Engineering 2
Tagged Topic: Professional Engineering Education Papers
Page Count: 11
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--44974
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/44974
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Edwin Lim University of Georgia

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Edwin Lim is a lecturer at the School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Georgia. His research interests are in the field of engineering education, earthquake engineering and reduce order finite element modeling. Prior to arriving at UGA in Fall 2022, he taught engineering mechanics, numerical method, materials science, and fundamental engineering courses at Tacoma Community College. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Civil (structural) Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as B.S. degree from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. At present, he enjoys teaching and preparing for new courses such as Building Information Modeling and Structural Design, researching on digital models to help students learning, and serving as an advisor for the UGA Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has a huge impact in all aspects of lives including engineering education. Many universities and community colleges decided to go online for the Spring 2020 following the restriction from the government to have an in-person class. This study investigates the effectiveness of online teaching for Statics course compared to blended teaching method (in-class instructions enriched with pre-recorded videos) using the results of the Concept Assessment Tool for Statics (CATS) test. The results were taken from students attending Tacoma Community College at two consecutive years (before and during pandemic). Two hypotheses are tested on the results of the test using the Mann-Whitney method: 1) to reject the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference between students in online class at the beginning and at the end of the quarter, and 2) to accept the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference on the test’s results between students in blended and online class. The results of hypotheses testing reject the first null hypothesis and accept the second null hypothesis. These results suggest that the online teaching method can be as effective as the blended teaching method when it is applied for the teaching of Statics course.

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Lim, E. (2023, March), A Comparison between Blended and Online Teaching Method for Statics Course: a perspective in a Community College Paper presented at ASEE Southeast Section Conference, Arlington, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--44974