Using Multi Media Courseware To Enhance Active Student Learning In The Classroom
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Chicago, Illinois
- Publication Date
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June 18, 2006
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June 18, 2006
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June 21, 2006
- ISSN
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2153-5965
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First-Year Programs
- Page Count
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10
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11.1397.1 - 11.1397.10
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--843
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https://peer.asee.org/843
- Download Count
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378
Paper Authors
S. Keith Hargrove Morgan State University
S. Keith Hargrove, is currently serving as a Harvard Administrative Fellow in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He previously served as Chairperson of the Industrial Engineering Department in the Clarence Mitchell, Jr. School of Engineering at Morgan State University at Baltimore, MD. He received his BSME degree from Tennessee State University, M.S. from the University of Missouri at Rolla, and PhD from the University of Iowa. He is a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Institute of Industrial Engineers, and has research interests in manufacturing systems design and engineering education.
Marie Dahleh Harvard University
Marie D. Dahleh is the Assistant Dean for Academic Programs in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Prior to joining Harvard, she spent 10 years at the University of California Santa Barbara in the mechanical engineering department and later in the Dean's office for undergraduate studies. She also served in the mathematics department at UCLA and had a partial appointment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She received a BA in Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College, and MA and PhD in applied and computational mathematics from Princeton University.
Abstract
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Using Multi-Media Courseware to Enhance Active Student Learning in the Classroom
Abstract
More innovative ways of instruction and learning are beginning to infiltrate the field of engineering education. This is motivated by industry demand for entry level employers having more practical decision making experiences, more exposure to realistic and real world engineering problems, the need to improve the learning and retention capacity of students as they matriculate through today’s condensed engineering curriculum, and the emerging global competition of the production of engineers. The use of multimedia and information technologies has provided a tool for learning delivery in engineering education, and this project provides a methodology to incorporate real-world experience with decision making in an academic setting. The use of a multimedia case study is used for an engineering design course to encourage team work, improve presentation skills, and simulate real world decision making. An evaluation of the project suggests that students are susceptible to this pedagogy for engineering instruction, and that it can promote critical thinking and team work in an academic environment.
Introduction
The industry foghorn continues to resonate across the engineering academy on the need and desire to reduce the gap in student learning and real world problem solving as graduates enter the workforce. The National Academy of Engineering has appealed to engineering programs to integrate theory and practice in the curriculum, and introduce more innovative learning methods that simulate industrial decision making in the classroom and laboratory [1]. Hence, the challenge for engineering educators is the use of more innovative methods for instruction and learning to replicate real world problem solving, and provide an environment for intellectual exchange of ideas and solutions in a classroom setting. This is further reinforced by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) to encourage the use of a cadre of tools and techniques for student development and enrichment in learning.
With the continual desire to shorten the matriculation of engineering training by the reduction of credit hours, and the compactness of technical content, the traditional methods of instruction will not be able to effectively transfer the technical knowledge needed for tomorrow’s engineer in four short years of matriculation. With the rapid and emerging developments of information technology (IT) and multimedia tools available for learning, one approach to addressing the above challenge is to use IT software for instruction and learning in engineering education. We define multimedia tools as computer-based communication systems that deliver heterogeneous and compressed/coded/encrypted content (text, audio, video, graphics) from a source or
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Hargrove, S. K., & Dahleh, M. (2006, June), Using Multi Media Courseware To Enhance Active Student Learning In The Classroom Paper presented at 2006 Annual Conference & Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. 10.18260/1-2--843
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