Conference Session

Faculty Attitudes and Perceptions

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University; Natalia Kapli, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Perceptions and Success of Active Learning Techniques in an Engineering Education CourseAbstractActive learning is extremely prevalent in discussions of how to improve teaching and learning inboth undergraduate and graduate engineering courses. However, active learning may not alwayslead to success. Rather, characteristics of the students enrolled and of the course material mayinfluence whether or not active learning is met with resistance. This project examines therelationship between graduate students’ perception of active learning techniques and the successof these techniques in an engineering education course entitled, “Teaching Seminar for GraduateAssistants.” The context of the project surrounds three sections of a course

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education Initiatives

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quamrul Mazumder, University of Michigan - Flint; Dhruba Baishya, University of Michigan - Flint

Tagged Divisions

International

engineeringeducation is at its infancy stage. Researchers, academic institutions, and industry have employedmultifarious projects to understand and model globalization of engineering educationWe strongly emphasize that optimum work needs to be done to prepare upcoming U.S. studentswho will be competent in an increasingly demanding global work environment. In order toestablish new models, we made an attempt to understand and analyze perspectives of current(U.S. and non-U.S.) students, academic faculty, and engineering professionals currently workingin industry. One of the goals of this study was to test the hypothesis that the current U.S.curriculum do not adequately prepare engineering students to work, manage and communicateeffectively with engineers and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Catalano, State University of New York-Binghamton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

seen in thefollowing case.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a federal agency has sole authority over the designand construction of metro New Orleans’ flood protection and water management asauthorized by Congress in the Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane Protection Project in theFlood Control Act of 1965. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers now admits that faultydesign specifications and substandard construction of certain levee segments, not ahurricane was the primary cause of the flooding damage in the New Orleans area.Responsibility for the levee design failures rests squarely on the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers and on the federal government including both the executive and legislativebranches. This means that the Corps and the federal government

Conference Session

Problem Solving and Misconceptions

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerard Rowe, University of Auckland; Chris Smaill, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

performance on thecourse-concept questions. The project software specifications require statistical analysis ofcorrect answers and also, more importantly, of misconceptions held by students. The threequantitative measures required are reliability, discrimination and difficulty.For a test to be useful it must be both reliable and valid. Validity can only be addressed duringdevelopment of the instrument. However, reliability can be measured. We are using the Kuder-Richardson Formula 20 (KR-20) to evaluate test reliability. The KR-20 reliability value is basedon: number of test items, student performance on every test item and variance for the set ofstudent test scores. The KR-20 index ranges from 0.0 to 1.0, with tests with an index of 0.6 orbetter

Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Rose, Ball State University; Jim Flowers, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

., developing a user survey or a cross-effect matrix.Both units of the course conclude by requiring students to integrate their growing understandingsof their respective content and skills into an extensive synthesis project. For the unit intechnology use, an inquiry approach is adopted to enable students to hone their data gatheringand analysis skills. In this approach, students individually plan, implement, analyze and report anoriginal usability test of a technological product, process, or system. For an overview of thisproject see Flowers [11].During the technology assessment unit, the dominant pedagogy is best described as problem-based learning (PBL). PBL is a student-driven inquiry strategy where a central problem serves asboth a content

Conference Session

Fostering and Assessing Effective Teaming

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Zemke, Gonzaga University; Steven Zemke, Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

processes practiced in industry. The second goal was for students to learnteamwork skills as practiced in industry. The instructor used a teaching method advocated byMichaelsen. 10 To align with Michaelsen’s method, the instructor created 30 minute designproblems and a few longer-term projects that required students to use both design and teamworkskills to reach a solution. Each week the teams were to solve the assigned problem as a group inclass and report their solution to the class verbally and on a large sheet of paper. Student workwas begun and completed within class.The instructor video recorded approximately 30 minutes of team interaction each week duringclass. A different team was randomly chosen each week. Teams quickly forgot they were

Conference Session

Innovative K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Lee, University of South Florida; Linda Nook, Riverview High School; William Massolio, Riverview High School; Robert Liming, Riverview High School; Nancy Smith, Riverview High School; Susan Pantling, Riverview High School; Rodeny Jones, Riverview High School; Jan Davis, RIverview High School; Judy Meksraitis, Riverview High School; Effa Beauette, Riverview High School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2007-1892: A NOVEL PROGRAM OF PARALLEL PRE-ENGINEERING ANDVISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS EDUCATION AT THE HIGH SCHOOLLEVELWilliam Lee, University of South Florida Dr. Lee is a Professor of Chemical Engineering and has several projects with faculty in the College of Visual & Performing Arts.Linda Nook, Riverview High School Linda Nook is the principal of Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida.William Massolio, Riverview High SchoolRobert Liming, Riverview High SchoolNancy Smith, Riverview High SchoolSusan Pantling, Riverview High SchoolJan Davis, RIverview High SchoolRodeny Jones, Riverview High SchoolJudy Meksraitis, Riverview High SchoolEffa Beauette, Riverview High School Effa is the Coordinator of

Conference Session

Digital and Embedded System Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liang Hong, Tennessee State University; Md Hasanuzzaman, Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

adaptiveinteractions between the in-class instruction and the outside classroom activities. The CAPEmodels introduced in this paper offer a generalized framework. The models can be easilymodified by educators to fit their needs.AcknowledgementsThis work is supported by a grant from the Summer Internship Program in Hybrid andEmbedded Research (SIPHER). SIPHER is a part of the Information Technology Research (ITR)of National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project, NSF/ITR: Foundations of Hybrid andEmbedded Software Systems (Award Number: CCR-0225610). The authors would like to thankDr. Gabor Karsai at Vanderbilt University for his valuable suggestions and help on the design ofthe courseware. The authors would also like to thank Larry Howard for his help on

Conference Session

Cooperative Education Addresses ABET

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Stwalley, Purdue University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2007-2033: DEVELOPMENT OF AN OUTCOMES-BASED ASSESSMENTINSTRUMENT FOR USE BY THE SUPERVISORS OF PROFESSIONALPRACTICE STUDENTSRobert Stwalley, Purdue University Robert M. Stwalley III, Ph.D., P.E. is the Director of the Purdue University Office of Professional Practice. Dr. Stwalley has been involved in education for over twenty years at three different institutions of higher education. He is currently the President of the Lafayette School Corporation Board of Trustees. Dr. Stwalley maintains a private consulting practice where he specializes in renewable energy projects and property transfer issues. He is married to Dr. Carol S. Stwalley, and they have four children: Kathryn, Robert IV

Conference Session

Software and E-learning in the ME Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

develop a feel for the interface outside of class. 3. In an era where the search for information often starts with an internet search engine such as Google, the web is a very effective dissemination mechanism which puts a broad audience at one’s fingertips. When the search term “CFD tutorials” is entered in Google, our FLUENT tutorials site4 is listed second among almost 100,000 entries. The high Google rank demonstrates that there are many users in the larger CFD community who are seeking out this material on the internet. 4. The tutorials facilitate asynchronous learning. For instance, some students might be motivated to learn about CAE technology for use in a project or co-op assignment even though

Conference Session

What's New in Mechanics of Materials?

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Creuziger, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

time is spent onproblem solving. In addition to keeping current with course content, the students are assignedweekly homework and a semester long design project. There are two different types ofhomework that are assigned: individual problems and team problems. There are approximatelysix individual problems and three team problems due each week. The design problem isassigned early in the semester with two status reports and a final report due during the year.Topics that included shear stress were distributed throughout the semester. Shear stress in boltsand inclined planes are covered in the first and second weeks. Torsion is covered in the fourthand fifth weeks. Shear in beam bending is discussed in the seventh and eighth week. The ninthand

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

interesting findings and observations. Theauthors acknowledge the fact that it is very important to create significantly differentlearning environments, particularly for engineering students.IntroductionHoward Gardner is the Director of Harvard Project Zero and Professor of Cognition andEducation at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has received numeroushonors and written dozens of books. He was the first American to receive the Universityof Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in Education. Gardner is best known in educationalcircles for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there exists buta single human intelligence that can be assessed by standard psychometric instruments.During the past twenty years, he and

Conference Session

Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Molina, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez; Asmaa Idrisu, George Mason University; Alexandra Medina-Borja, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; Amelia Marian, West University of Timisoara

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

thinking in education; Page 12.252.4Mandinach & Cline’s on the assessment of the system thinking project in the K-12arena8. In addition, there is a broad range of studies in the field of systems thinking with astrong emphasis on psycho-pedagogical implications; such as: Toshima’s10 integratedaptitude test for systems engineers (SE), which includes intellectual abilities andpersonality factors; Richmond’s critical systems thinking skills (dynamic thinking,closed-loop thinking, generic thinking, structural thinking, operational thinking,continuum thinking, and scientific thinking)0 ; Zulauf’s study on locus of control andconceptual stages of cognitive

Conference Session

Elementary School Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Caroline Beller, Oklahoma State University; Pamela Fry, Oklahoma State University; Adrienne Redmond, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Class and field activities are hands-on, inquiry-basedactivities, utilizing whole group discussions, cooperative learning groups, and someindividual projects. Laboratory experiences are designed to emphasize the scienceprocess skills. The remaining 25% of class time is devoted to lecture, discussion, anddemonstration. During the laboratory engineering concepts were discussed anddemonstrated.This paper will focus on the effectiveness of instruction by a chemical engineeringfaculty member as evaluated by in-course assessment tools. Was there any perceivedbenefit of having an Engineer involved with a course designed for education majors?Were the students more aware of the engineering field and of engineering concepts due tothis involvement? Were

Conference Session

New trends in ECE education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Jacobson, Iowa State University; Thomas Daniels, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

hypervisor system developed at University of Cambridge. The prototype used a single 2GB Pentium 4 machine (2.8 GHz) to provide 35 students with one virtual machine each. Projects included development of file system configurations based on policies, network sniffing and scanning, and vulnerability exploitation on hosts.3. CprE 531: Information System Security Textbook: Computer Security Art and Science, Matt Bishop, Addison and Wesley, ISBN: 0-201- 44099-7 Course Description: Computer and network security: basic cryptography, security policies, multilevel security models, attack and protection mechanisms, legal and ethical issues

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University; Ronald Bennett, University of St. Thomas; Casey Radtke, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

fourth-year undergraduate student at North Dakota State University. He is pursuing a baccalaureate degree in University Studies with emphasis in manufacturing and mechanical engineering, business and entrepreneurship. As an undergraduate research assistant, Mr. Radtke has participated in projects focusing on graduate studies in manufacturing and on lead-free assembly of printed circuit boards. He also works as a fabricator of forced-induction engine components. Page 12.1121.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 On the Structure and Character of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Yongjin Kwon, Drexel University; Shreepud Rauniar, Drexel University; Horacio Sosa, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

systems and management. Internethas improved technology tremendously over the past few years. The improvement in datatransfer speed, data security, technology to transfer these data has opened new frontiers.The internet technology can also create online educational tools for teaching anddemonstration of automated manufacturing processes with robotics. Those Web-basedsystems allow robotics and automation to communicate, share design data, informationand knowledge through the Internet1-13. To enhance the workforce skills in the product development cycle, an Internet-based approach for lab development is introduced to develop web-enabled robotics andautomation. This laboratory development component in the NSF project deals withintegrating

Conference Session

Assessing Perceptions of Engineers and Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olga Pierrakos, Virginia Tech; Michael Alley, Virginia Tech; Pavlos Vlachos, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Research senior design project Undergraduate Research Freshmen Undergraduates Middle School and High School Students Hands on exercises and presentations Figure 1. Schematic of the development ladder of research translation to engineering education from middle school to graduate education. This illustration shows the big picture of research transfer leading to interdisciplinary engineers who are leaders in

Conference Session

Student Misconceptions and Problem Solving Abiltiy

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines; Monica Geist, University of Northern Colorado; Ravel Ammerman, Colorado School of Mines; Candace Sulzbach, Colorado School of Mines; Ronald Miller, Colorado School of Mines; Barbara Olds, National Science Foundation and Colorado School of Mines; Mary Nelson, University of Colorado

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

2006-1653: IDENTIFYING AND INVESTIGATING DIFFICULT CONCEPTS INENGINEERING MECHANICS AND ELECTRIC CIRCUITSRuth Streveler, Colorado School of Mines RUTH A. STREVELER is the Director of the Center for Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines and Research Associate Professor in Academic Affairs. Dr. Streveler holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Master of Science in Zoology from the Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Indiana University at Bloomington. She is co-principle investigator of three NSF-sponsored projects: Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying Engineering Student

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Bower, The Citadel; Kenneth Brannan, The Citadel; William Davis, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Page 11.1119.2statement and to provide guidance for engineering programs regarding what should betaught and learned, how it should be taught and learned, and who should teach and learnit [2].The ASCE-BOK promulgates a wide variety of academic ideas and philosophies, two ofwhich are most directly addressed within the context of this paper. The committeesuggests that in addition to eleven program outcomes identified via ABET Criteria 3 a-k,four additional outcomes should be addressed through the instructional process including:specialized areas of civil engineering; project management, construction, and assetmanagement; business and public policy; and leadership. Table 1 includes a list of all 15program outcome criteria identifying both ABET and

Conference Session

Advancing Manufacturing Education Through Outreach and Collaboration

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

initial observations suggest that the exhibit has achieved its initially defined goals. Thepreliminary results show that among the goals of the project, motivating the visitors to engagewith the game content is attained. According to the anecdotal observations, there is a high rate ofinterest shown in the exhibit by visitors who walked by, showing that the task of attracting thevisitors may also be fulfilled. This will be confirmed with a future observational study devotedmeasuring this potential of the exhibit. Measuring the degree of learning facilitation, however,hinges on refining the existing automatically collected data, so that each game play trace reflectsa single user’s playing experience accurately. It is also worth emphasizing that use

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie

Tagged Divisions

International

consistent process Engineering Level 2: management Disciplined Repeatable process Project Level 1: management Initial Figure 1: The Five Stages or Maturity Levels of the Capability Maturity Model7 Maturity Levels Process Capability Key Process Areas Goals Common Features Implementation or Key Practices Institutionalization

Conference Session

On Pedagogy of Lab Courses and Their Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Crown, University of Texas-Pan American; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas-Pan American; Bob Freeman, University of Texas-Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

great flexibility as game templates and have an advantage over JavaScriptin that the code can be protected. Applets are compiled programs that run on a web page. Theapplets were written in such a way that the content is easily modified using parameters. Usingthe fixed puzzle format of each applet a wide variety of instructional puzzles is easy to create.Use of the applets requires that the user enabled Java in their browser. The puzzle formats canbe modified, however this requires a significant investment of time, knowledge of Java, andaccess to a Java compiler.The toolbox contains two Java flexible applets that support all of the Java games posted in thecourse content projects. The first applet is the SCRAMBLED GRID which allows for

Conference Session

The Senior Experience: Capstone and Beyond

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Yost, University of Kentucky; Derek Lane, University of Kentucky; George Blandford, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

there is an unfortunate upper constraint. This constraint is not present in real lifeopen-ended projects, so this constraint is somewhat artificial. The reader can see that only oneteam (Team 5) out of the 5 teams performed above the maximum individual. Three of the teamsscored below the maximum individual, and one team did the same as the best individual. As aside note, with three of the teams performing worse than the best individual, this demonstratesthat one member did not carry/dominate the entire team. Still only one of the five teams had this Page 11.1061.7super-performance. Given the circumstances of newly formed teams, the result was

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Student

, Minority, and Energy Conversion and Conservation Divisions; presenting all of them with the exception of one paper in 2010 when she was double-booked. Albers most recently held the position of project coordinator for the ARRA funded Student Energy Internship Program in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at NCSU. She mentored and coordinated 60+ interns with energy professionals in the private and public sectors and recruited interns to volunteer at Family STEM Nights. Prior to this experience, she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in K-12 Education working under the direction of Liz Parry, Dr. Laura Bottomley and Dr. Karen Hollebrands in the RAMP-UP program at NCSU. During this

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Mazloomzadeh, Florida International University; Mustafa Farhadi, Florida International University; Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Florida International University(FIU) emfarhadi@gmail.comDr. Osama A. Mohammed, Florida International University Dr. Mohammed is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and is the Director of the Energy Systems Re- search Laboratory at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He received his Master and Doc- toral degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He has per- formed research on various topics in power and energy systems as well as computational electromagnetics and design optimization in electric machines and drive systems. He performed multiple research projects for the Office of Naval Research and the Naval Surface Warfare Centers since 1995 dealing with; power

Conference Session

Research Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Tillman, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

efficacy in math. Thesample of second grade students and utilization of a randomized control assignment methodhelped fill missing methodological gaps, and several relationships were examined that filled inconstruct related holes. The guiding question for the current study was: Did second gradestudents who participated in a mathematics based PBL unit report higher levels of engagementcompared to students who participated in traditional, teacher directed instruction?MethodsThe current study was an examination of one piece of a two-year, multifaceted grant. Thisresearch project was a Jacob K. Javits initiative funded through the U.S. Department ofEducation that followed one cohort of students during 2nd and 3rd grade as they experienced threePBL

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire L. Antaya, Arizona State University; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh; Piervincenzo Rizzo, University of Pittsburgh; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

around the nation areincorporating sustainability into their curriculum.The National Research Council (NRC) notes several challenges to effective undergraduateeducation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Thesechallenges include providing engaging laboratory, classroom and field experiences; teachinglarge numbers of students from diverse backgrounds; improving assessment of learningoutcomes; and informing science faculty about research on effective teaching3-5. Researchsuggests that team based projects can also enhance student learning in STEM fields since itpromotes active and collaborative learning while simultaneously promotes individualaccountability, personal responsibility, and communication skills2. In

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Scott D Gelfand, Oklahoma State University, Department of Philosophy; Ronald Steve Harrist Ph.D., Oklahoma State University; Shelia M. Kennison, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

, andenvironmental surroundings. Fatigue induced by concentrating or focusing on a project for asignificant period of time without a break (e.g. plotting results from a materials study or writing apaper summarizing one’s experimental results), good or elevated mood (induced by watching afunny video), and environment (such as a dirty office with a messy desk) all appear to influenceethical behavior. The class makes use of video clips containing re-enactments of published empiricalstudies that demonstrate why people act unethically. The videos serve as the means to deliverclear moral psychology lessons based on previously published case studies involving real orhypothetical scenarios. For example, one of the videos is a combination lecture and story

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Firas Akasheh, Tuskegee University; Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Active learning strategies canpromote higher order thinking11-13, hence project-, or problem-, or case studies-based learning,have been developed and applied in engineering courses.Observation is critical in learning; starting from childhood, humans learn via observation,especially from peers24-26. Learning in peer-led, problem-based learning settings27-28 can be ahighly effective means to encourage student engagement in more profound learning29-31.Meaningful learning emphasizes active, constructive, intentional, authentic and cooperativelearning32. Peer learning encourages meaningful learning that involves students teaching andlearning from each other as well as sharing of ideas, knowledge and experiences, and emphasizesinterdependent as