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Lessons Learned from COVID That Have Been Transferred to Post-COVID Teaching and Learning

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2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

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East Lansing, Michigan

Publication Date

July 31, 2022

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July 31, 2022

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August 2, 2022

Conference Session

Technical Session M5B

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7

DOI

10.18260/1-2--42244

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https://peer.asee.org/42244

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Michael Cross Norwich University

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Michael Cross is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering teaching classes in the areas of circuits, electronics, energy systems, and engineering design. Cross received degrees from the Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of Vermont and began his academic career at UVM where he taught courses in the areas of analog and digital circuits, electronics, semiconductor physics, power electronics, and engineering design.

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David M. Feinauer P.E. Virginia Military Institute

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Dr. Feinauer is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Military Institute. His scholarly work spans a number of areas related to engineering education, including P-12 engineering outreach, the first-year engineering experience, and incorporating innovation and entrepreneurship practice in the engineering classroom. Additionally, he has research experience in the areas of automation and control theory, system identification, and energy resilience fundamentals. His work has been published through the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE); he is an active member of both organizations. He holds a PhD and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky.

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Roger J Marino P.E. Drexel University

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Roger Marino is an Emeritus Associate Teaching Professor in the Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department at Drexel University, Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Dr. Marino has 30+ years of private consulting experience, and is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of New Jersey. He teaches across all disciplines, and his primary focus in recent years has been in the area of Freshman and Sophomore curriculums.

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James R McCusker PhD Wentworth Institute of Technology

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James R. McCusker is an Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in the School of Engineering. Since joining Wentworth in 2010, he has been heavily involved with an array of interdisciplinary design courses that range from introductory to capstone courses.

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Johanna P Casale Drexel University

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Johanna P. (Doukakis) Casale is an Interdisciplinary Studies Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University as well as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Drexel Univerisity. She received her BS in Civil Engineering and MS in Structural Engineering from Rutgers University. Her research interests focus on how expert engineers reason and how this can be used to better facilitate student learning.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic required a rapid shift in course content delivery. Educators were faced with the challenge of providing some sort of continuity to student learning. Several content delivery modalities were used, including asynchronous, synchronous, and hybrid. The term HyFlex gained popularity, representing simultaneous offering of courses in-person, asynchronously online, and synchronously online, with students given the flexibility to engage through any of the modalities. New and innovative approaches to interactive learning were developed and implemented. Additionally, a transition to the online performance of laboratory experiments was required. Some of these new methods have carried over as we have moved back into more traditional education operations.

In this paper, faculty from multiple institutions will share success stories from techniques developed during the transition to online learning that have been transferred to or refined for the post-COVID in-person learning environment. For example, deep integration of tablets into courses for lecture presentations (with screen recording), notetaking, problem-solving, and exam administration aided in remote instruction and has been continued. The use of online simulation tools (such as TinkerCAD) to perform traditional hands-on experiments in simulation has been continued as pre-lab assignments or to compare data collected in the laboratory to expected/theoretical results. It was also discovered that remote/online tasks administered through a learning management system (LMS) can be effective at building community. Starting with “introduce yourself” videos or discussion forum tasks can help students build community for the in-person classroom as well. Video presentations of assignments provide a way to preserve in-class time for problem-solving sessions (flipped-classroom model). The submission of student-narrated video explanations of their homework problem solutions or lab exercise results helps to promote student understanding of the subject matter. The opportunity to have guest speakers virtually in the classroom from anywhere in the world became easier, more prevalent, and more comfortable — and the use of virtual visitors has been maintained. The perceived effectiveness of different delivery methods: in-person (both students and presenter in the classroom) vs. live - virtually (students in the classroom, presenter virtually) vs. pre-recorded video (either in or out of the classroom) will also be discussed.

Cross, M., & Feinauer, D. M., & Marino, R. J., & McCusker, J. R., & Casale, J. P. (2022, July), Lessons Learned from COVID That Have Been Transferred to Post-COVID Teaching and Learning Paper presented at 2022 First-Year Engineering Experience, East Lansing, Michigan. 10.18260/1-2--42244

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