A Flipped Classroom Setting Trial in GIS Course
- Conference
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Portland, Oregon
- Publication Date
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June 23, 2024
- Start Date
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June 23, 2024
- End Date
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July 12, 2024
- Conference Session
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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Instructional Technology 1
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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)
- Permanent URL
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https://peer.asee.org/46440
Paper Authors
Namita Shrestha Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Dr. Namita Shrestha earned her PhD in Civil/Environmental Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Master of Science in Civil/Environmental Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Her research interests include bioelectrochemical systems, microbial electrochemistry, resource recovery from waste/wastewater, waste treatment and nanomaterial for bioelectrochemical application. She is passionate about research‐based learning and student-centered pedagogy. She serves as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) and ASEE.
Timothy Chow Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Timothy Chow serves as the Director of Institutional Research in the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment (IRPA) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He is a member of Rose-Hulman’s Data Governance Committee and the Quality of Education Committee. Timothy is a longtime member of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR), Indiana Association for Institutional Research (INAIR), and Overseas Chinese Association for Institutional Research (OCAIR), and he currently serves as a member of the ASEE Data Collections Advisory Board, as well as a Peer Reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and for the OAAAQA Register of External Reviewers . Timothy has a PhD from Indiana State University in Technology Management with specialization in Quality Systems.
Abstract
GIS is one of the powerful tools civil engineers can implement in design, planning, surveying, mapping, risk management etc. At our institution the civil engineering students take this required two-credit course during their freshman year. In this course student learn basic principles, methods and applications of GIS and learn to operate the software. The GIS skills from this course can be applicable in several upcoming classes across the undergraduate civil curriculum such as freshman design, water resources, hydrology, senior designs etc. as well as during student’s internships and future employment. Historically, this course has always been taught in a traditional lecture-based format in our department. Teaching this software-based course in traditional lecture-based format consumes a significant portion of class time on merely being familiar with software, limiting the time that can be dedicated to software’s real world application aspect. This minimizes the benefits that the students could have gained from this course. Revising this course into a non-traditional format by utilizing teaching resources such as recorded video lectures, handouts, useful YouTube videos etc. in flipped classroom settings could be used to improve the quality of course content. The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of flipped setting for the GIS course so that the instructors serve as learning guides rather than learning leaders. Flipped class setting creates room to use face-to-face class time for quality discussions and worktime on projects/ assignments. Student’s understanding in this new course settings will be evaluated from project/ assignment grade, course evaluations and focus groups. The preliminary result from partial flip setting of this class suggests that 93% of the students feel confident about the content before coming to the class to work on in-class assignments.
Shrestha, N., & Chow, T. (2024, June), A Flipped Classroom Setting Trial in GIS Course Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/46440
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