ethic to succeed in college. A suggest-ed strategy is to increase student participation (McFarlane, 2010). We designed a first intervention,cinematic meditation (Rao, 2017), that increases student participation while imparting technicalknowledge in an engaging manner. We introduced a second intervention, the use of online ZYBooksfor Digital System Design. Figure 1(B) and Figure 1(C) describe the timelines for these interventions. Figure 1. This figure describes the timeline for student assessment before and after we introduced the interventions.SUMMER 2020 VOLUME 8 ISSUE 2 7 ADVANCES IN
, the CBL is entering the classroom as a pedagogical approach. It is being incorpo-rated into the human sciences, management and also, engineering. The CBL demands a real-worldperspective because it suggests that learning involves the student’s doing, thinking and actingwith respect to a subject of study (Sein-Echaluce 2016). This approach provides a learning frame-work focused on the student, which emulates the experiences of a modern workplace (Fidalgo-Blanco, Sein-Echaluce, et al. 2015). This is how the CBL takes advantage of students’ interest ingiving practical meaning to education while developing key competencies such as collaborativeand multidisciplinary work, decision-making, advanced communication, ethics, and leadership.Table 1 shows