Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Vicki V. May

-driven. A more learner-center, objective-driven approach is easier today given theavailability of digital resources and collaborative tools.As an alternative to requiring a textbook for a senior-level mechanics course, the studentsare creating a set of notes as a class using the wiki function in Blackboard. Through thisprocess the students will:• Synthesize information from different texts and resources, and• Collaboratively create a set of notes that they can use for quizzes and the final exam (and later in their careers).The students are working in groups. Each group is responsible for a separate section (thesections include: General Discussion, Theory and Equations, Definitions, Concept Map, andExample) of the class notes for each of five

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Aasia Riasat; Syed S. Rizvi; Faraz Arain

establishreliable measures of effectiveness for it. They claimed that there is no well established methodologyavailable that can be used to determine which design approach most likely leads to the desired outcomefor a certain problem domain and its learning effectiveness. Therefore, they have been particularlyinvolved in developing a ‘causal loop mapping tool’ and shaping the ways through which it could bemore efficiently used to construct a better learning environment and to demonstrate the impacts of systemdynamics learning on dynamic problem understanding. The concepts maps of initial learners and expertsare constructed by first creating the causal lop diagrams for a targeted problem domain. It has beenshown that [1] with a simpler problem domain