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Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Russel C. Jones, World Expertise LLC

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world, are strivingto develop diverse economies which allow them to compete effectively in today’s globaleconomy. Much of the effort is appropriately directed to education and associatedactivities which aim toward building “knowledge-based” economies.The Emirate of Abu Dhabi has embarked on a particularly enlightened and aggressiveprogram of economic development, aimed at transforming its current oil-based economyto one based on knowledge and innovation. It is making substantial investments in highereducation, particularly in engineering and science, to develop the human capacity toaccomplish this transition.References Page 21.35.7 1) See http

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Keith Willey, University of Technology Sydney; Anne P Gardner, University of Technology, Sydney

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the development of a collaborative learning activity framework andthe educational technology tool SPARKPLUS. In this paper we use exemplar activities todescribe the findings of these studies and demonstrate both the framework and the supportprovided by SPARKPLUS.IntroductionThere is an expectation by organisations that the professionals they employ, includingengineers, engage in ongoing learning in order to meet the demands of continuing change.Much of this learning is informal, learnt on the job through practice with peers.Recent writers on workplace learning 1, 2 argue that many traditional assumptions aboutprofessional learning are problematic in that learning has often been seen as something thatindividuals do, for example attending a

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Danilo Garbi Zutin P.E., Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

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apply these systems to continually provide learningopportunities for workers who must adapt to rapidly changing conditions.REFERENCES [1] M. E. Auer, A. Pester and D.G Zutin, Open Source Portal for Online Laboratories, 2007. [2] http://icampus.mit.edu/ilabs/architecture, last visited 25.05.2009 [3] Resource Description Framework. URL: http://www.w3.org/RDF/ – Last visited in 03/2009. [4] D. Allemang ,J. Hendler, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling in RDFS and OWL, Elsevier, 2008. [5] Dublin Core. URL: http://dublincore.org/ [6] Draft Standard for Learning Object Metadata, IEEE-publication 2002 - URL: http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg12/ [7] SKOS – Simple knowledge Organization System. URL: http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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J. P. Mohsen, University of Louisville; Michael Sanio, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

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. Page 21.50.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 U.S. WFEO ActivitiesIntroductionThe World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) was created in 1968 with thesupport of the United Nations Environmental, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO).1 Its objectives, stated in its Constitution, are to work with Members: toencourage the application of engineering and technological advancement to economic andsocial progress throughout the world; to advance engineering as an equal opportunityprofession in the interest of all people; and to foster peace throughout the world.WFEO represents multi-discipline engineering organizations in more than 70 countrieswith a

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Olga V Shipulina, Simon Fraser University

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Invited - Curriculum Development

, participated in the study. They were at the end of AP calculus course andhad completed such topics as application and computation of derivatives. The students wereinformed about the goal of the research and that the experiments would be conducted in theschool’s Teacher’s room, outside of regular calculus class time and that each session would last60-90 minutes.The simulated in the Second Live VE setting includes a pond with shallow water, surrounded bybushes and trees (Figure 1). Figure 1. Simulated in the Second Life VE SettingThe environment is programmed so that walking/running speed on land is twice as fast aswalking/running speed in water. There are two green small round platforms: one platform islocated on land near the

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

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2013 ASEE International Forum

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Lynette Frances Johns-Boast, Australian National University

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Invited - Curriculum Development

institutionsoffer their stakeholders 1 as it both determines and drives outcomes. Despite this, the most notableoutcome of a “review of the literature on curriculum in higher education in the UK, the USA andAustralia … [is that there] is the dearth of writing on the subject” 2. That literature which doesaddress higher education curricula assumes a common understanding of the term curriculum andtargets curriculum related issues such as ‘inclusive curriculum’, ‘learner-centered curriculum’,internationalization of the curriculum or it focuses on the design of individual courses – that is,single units of study 2.Accepting that an important aspect of our role as academics is “not to impart knowledge, but todesign learning environments that support knowledge