Mora, C. E., & Martin-Gutierrez, J., & Añorbe-Diaz, B., & MELLADO, R. C., & Marrero, A. G. (2014, June), Real Collaborative Environments Using Technologies Based on Mobile Devices and Internet Tools  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--22962

\bibitem{asee_peer_22962}
  Mora, C. E., \& Martin-Gutierrez, J., \& Añorbe-Diaz, B., \& MELLADO, R. C., \& Marrero, A. G. (2014, June), \emph{Real Collaborative Environments Using Technologies Based on Mobile Devices and Internet Tools}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--22962

Carlos Efrén Mora, Jorge Martin-Gutierrez, Beatriz Añorbe-Diaz, REYES CARRAU MELLADO, and Antonio González Marrero.  "Real Collaborative Environments Using Technologies Based on Mobile Devices and Internet Tools".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/22962 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_22962}
  Carlos Efrén Mora, Jorge Martin-Gutierrez, Beatriz Añorbe-Diaz, REYES CARRAU MELLADO, and Antonio González Marrero.
  "Real Collaborative Environments Using Technologies Based on Mobile Devices and Internet Tools".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/22962 Internet.  16 Dec, 2024

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AB  -           Problem-based learning approach in marine engineering education                      using mobile devices and Internet toolsThe skills of Marine Engineering graduates should be strongly oriented to problem solving forsituations without external direct assistance. Marine professionals should also be able to take rightdecisions under difficult situations like emergencies. By the other way work-group and job planningis an every day requirement, specially when doing maintenance and reparation tasks. By contrastmarine technology has advanced quickly and knowledge recycling is a must on every shippingcompany, but operation and maintenance procedures have usually to be learnt on the go.During last decades, marine engineering students had not got immersed into a real challenge workenvironment until going onboard for the first time when finishing their studies. The adoption of aproblem-based learning is intended to solve this situation, so students will have a closer contactwith real decision-taking and auto-learning situations on earlier stages. We pretend to create moreengaging experiences and introduce our students into real collaborative environments usingtechnologies, specially those based on mobile devices and Internet tools.On a very first stage, we have planned experiences with first and third year marine engineeringstudents. On average, our first year students do not associate ITs and computers to learning usesdifferent than Internet searching and schoolwork authoring. By other hand, most of them are used toa traditional teacher-focused learning. Third year students are more used to ITs, but are notexperienced in collaborative online tools. They also have not previous experience in problem basedlearning like first year students.Our experiences are focused on two first semester subjects: Applied Chemistry (first year) andAutomation and Controls (third year). Both experiences use a similar procedure, but while the firstis restricted to only one specific experience with a randomly selected small group of students, thesecond shows a mayor turnaround as the experience has been extended to all students and subject’scurricula. Depending on how problem based learning is designed different behaviors are shown. Onfirst-year Applied Chemistry the experiences are restricted to two groups of students and oneconcept for each one. The first one worked on fluid density and the second studied fluid viscosity.There was a lack of motivation for both groups of students: by the first session about 50% ofstudents decided not to participate, even they were advised that they did not had any other optionsfor this part of the curricula on this subject. We have discovered an initial repulse by students moreused to a traditional deductive learning. We also think that the use of collaborative tools cancontribute to this effect, given the additional effort required by students to create initial work-groupdynamics. By contrast, a better behavior is shown after few weeks on third year students. In thiscase, it was not just an experience, but the whole subject was redesigned for a problem basedlearning approach. Only 10% of students did not participate on this experience, but was mostlycaused because of schedule issues. Some initial difficulties arose during the first weeks: lack ofcommunication between students, some conflicts between group members and the required quicklearning by students of the required tools during a short period of time (IT tools, collaborativesoftware and augmented reality technologies).By the end of this semester, we pretend to evaluate the students motivation and satisfactioncompared to their grading results. For this purpose we have designed a scoring rubric and quizzes inorder to have visible results for this experiences. This work will permit us to analyze the lack ofmotivation when introducing a partial problem based learning strategy compared to a fullimmersive planning. We also expect to obtain positive results and also information about thebehavior of this methodology and the corresponding impact on the graduates experiences onboard.
AU  - Carlos Efrén Mora
AU  - Jorge Martin-Gutierrez
AU  - Beatriz Añorbe-Diaz
AU  - REYES CARRAU MELLADO
AU  - Antonio González Marrero
CY  - Indianapolis, Indiana
DA  - 2014/06/15
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Real Collaborative Environments Using Technologies Based on Mobile Devices and Internet Tools
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/22962
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--22962
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