Vianney Lara-Prieto, Josefina Muñoz-Castillo, C. L. Salazar-Cano, Carlos E. Martínez-Torteya, Enrique Díaz de León López, Genaro Zavala, Ricardo Swain Oropeza
{"title":"Synchronous Distance Learning: Students and Faculty Experience from a Gender Perspective","authors":"Vianney Lara-Prieto, Josefina Muñoz-Castillo, C. L. Salazar-Cano, Carlos E. Martínez-Torteya, Enrique Díaz de León López, Genaro Zavala, Ricardo Swain Oropeza","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454037","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic forced Higher Education classes to shift to online education. This sudden change required universities to respond rapidly, adapting their classes to remote courses maintaining quality educational delivery. In this context, our university implemented the Digital Flexible Model (DFM) to continue with its academic offer. The challenge involved moving 55,000 classes per week to the DFM, attending 90,000 students with 9,400 professors, all in one week. At the end of the semester, a strategic survey was applied to a statistical sample of professors and students from the Engineering School to get feedback about their experience with the DFM. The results highlight takeaways to improve the instructional model and offer interesting reflections by gender from the experience of faculty and students.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125377285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Writing Factory: Structured Collaborative Academic Writing in Engineering","authors":"D. Uckelmann, Anke Pfeiffer","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453907","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of writing and publishing is well understood in the academic world. Therefore, academic writing is a common soft skills lecture provided to students and researchers. However, these lectures may be quite theoretical and do not sufficiently guide the writing in teams, reviewing and publication process. This paper provides a more hands-on approach to collaborative academic writing and publishing in a structured process – the Writing Factory. For engineering subjects, this requires technical expertise as well as academic skills from the lecturer.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121660810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Borys Levkovskyi, Vanessa Laurim, Bilgenur Kayaci, Henryk Mustroph, M. Utesch, H. Krcmar
{"title":"Teaching the Digital Transformation of Business Processes: Design of a Simulation Game of Business Process Change","authors":"Borys Levkovskyi, Vanessa Laurim, Bilgenur Kayaci, Henryk Mustroph, M. Utesch, H. Krcmar","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453981","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of digital transformation (DT) on the business processes within the context of education is an issue that should be addressed when preparing the future workforce. It is necessary to emphasize the effects of digital technologies on business processes so that students can come prepared for their future working places. Simulation games are proven to be a valid method of teaching these concepts. On the other hand, topics like sustainability or environmental friendliness are also gaining more attention during last years. These factors are even considered among the DT drivers. However, the existing games, aimed at teaching DT, often bypass these concepts with their attention. Our paper aims at closing this gap by extending a game that simulates the manufacturing process of a bike producer, undergoing servitization, by integrating, sustainability, regionality, and ecological factor into its simulation model. By taking the role of the process manager, players guide their company through various process steps in several rounds and compete against other teams. At the end of each round teams are compared based on their financial success, with balancing out the ecological factor being an essential part of the strategy. Evaluation of our game shows that this approach contributes to a better understanding of both effective process management under DT as well as sustainability, regionality, and environmental friendliness concepts by the target audience.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122130063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samson Lausa, R. Bringula, Annaliza E. Catacutan-Bangit, Cereneo Santiago
{"title":"Information-Seeking Behavior of Computing Students while Programming: Educational Learning Materials Usage, Satisfaction of Use, and Inconveniences","authors":"Samson Lausa, R. Bringula, Annaliza E. Catacutan-Bangit, Cereneo Santiago","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453905","url":null,"abstract":"This descriptive research determined the information-seeking behavior of computing students from two private and two public higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines. Toward this goal, a total of 338 computing students answered a validated questionnaire. Both sets of students agreed that they sought a little help from other people, usually from their other teachers/staff and classmates. It is found that YouTube is the most preferred, most perceived useful, and most satisfying educational learning materials (ELM) while e-books and print textbooks are the least utilized ELM. It can be concluded that computing students prefer ELM that could provide quick information. While ELM offers users convenience for information-seeking, it still has limitations that contribute to its inherent inconvenience. Implications are also offered.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130406893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. L. Skrede, Øystein Bjelland, Evelyn Honoré-Livermore
{"title":"Work-in-Progress: An agile approach to formative assessment in higher education","authors":"A. L. Skrede, Øystein Bjelland, Evelyn Honoré-Livermore","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454060","url":null,"abstract":"Formative assessment is part of a learning process in which the teacher continuously monitors students’ learning and provides feedback intended to let students themselves reflect upon what they have learned and where they need to focus more attention. The underlying goal of formative assessment is to lift the students to a higher metacognitive level where they can monitor and guide their learning while simultaneously improving their learning outcomes. However, many courses are planned before the semester starts and may not include methods to continuously improve the teaching. With continuous monitoring and assessment, the philosophy behind formative assessment has some similarities to the agile methodology often employed in software- and product development. This paper presents an agile framework for formative assessment in engineering courses.By taking the viewpoint of “Knowledge as a product”, this focus ensures: (1) that the students increase their knowledge through sprints and demonstrate it often, and (2), that the methods of teaching and learning are continuously improved through feedback from the students so that the teacher can adapt and improve to enable learning, all supported by formative assessment. Additionally, the agile approach to formative assessment has the potential to improve the non-technical professional skills of students.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130344719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana Karen Rangel Lappe, Dennys Torales-Sanchez, A. Fuentes, P. Caratozzolo
{"title":"Work in Progress: Addressing Barriers for Women in STEM in Mexico","authors":"Ana Karen Rangel Lappe, Dennys Torales-Sanchez, A. Fuentes, P. Caratozzolo","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453901","url":null,"abstract":"Gender inequalities and underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) continue to be a reality, as several barriers affect women throughout their career development and in leadership positions. Little is known about those barriers for women in developing countries. This two-stage study aims to explore them and analyze how women leaders in STEM in Mexico have overcome them, from their education to the science and engineering workforce. This work in progress focuses on stage one, where a survey was conducted to obtain sex-disaggregated data on drivers and barriers to STEM careers in Mexico. Preliminary results showed the lack of equal opportunities for women when pursuing and advancing in a career in STEM, additional barriers they face compared to men, as well as the importance of women role models for representation and retention of women in these fields. The second stage of the study is planned to analyze the career development of women leaders in STEM in Mexico.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133624875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Ruiz-Cantisani, Denisse I. Lopez-Ruiz, Natalia Suárez-Cavazos, Jazzmin Novelo-Villegas, E. G. R. Flores, María Yolanda Burgos-López
{"title":"STEM & Gender equity: empowering women in vulnerable environments","authors":"M. Ruiz-Cantisani, Denisse I. Lopez-Ruiz, Natalia Suárez-Cavazos, Jazzmin Novelo-Villegas, E. G. R. Flores, María Yolanda Burgos-López","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453937","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, global efforts to generate a culture of gender equity have been made. However, in Latin American countries, these efforts have been insufficient in the presence of the latent reality of inequality and violence suffered by women. Faced with this reality, universities should not be distant from this environment, so initiatives have been developed that impact women and this culture of gender equity, especially in the academic area. The purpose of this research is to determine the variables that directly affect the engagement of public high school students in their development and empowerment as women and to awaken their interest in STEM areas, and the personal impact in undergraduate students of STEM areas about equity gender and social responsibility. The methodology is of a mixed nature: 1) design of Mentoring Program and workshops in STEM and Gender equity, and research´s methodology planning; 2) integration of the leading team, 3) implementation of the program with public high school women students, undergraduate students, and women teacher of STEM areas; 4) preliminary evaluations through beneficiary surveys, reflection blogs with undergraduate students and interviews with a sample of student mentors and mentor teachers; and 5) data analysis and exploration of the replicability of the model on another campus. Among the preliminary findings with high school women students are: a) a high interest in topics of STEM careers (despite not being in the specialty in high school), b) resources limitations and time restrictions due to their reality and c) a personal discovery through the interaction of undergraduate women students and women teachers, both as mentors. Despite the circumstances, it was decided to develop it because this reality cannot wait to seek a change, and it is the women helping other young women that can make possible the cultural and social change.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114350676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
George V. Moser, Raoul Vallon, Mario Bernhart, T. Grechenig
{"title":"Teaching Software Quality Assurance with Gamification and Continuous Feedback Techniques","authors":"George V. Moser, Raoul Vallon, Mario Bernhart, T. Grechenig","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453921","url":null,"abstract":"Delivering high quality code is a critical success factor for any software project. Thus the teaching of proper software quality assurance skills presents an important objective for educational institutions. We conducted a single-case study in a student project environment to evaluate the improvement of the quality assurance process by measures of continuous feedback and elements of gamification and also have students gain experience with these measures in an industrial-like setup. Based on our data analysis, results suggest that the software quality and also learning experience can both be improved by our proposed measures. Moreover, key findings include that gamification can serve as a strong motivational driver to developers to deal with software quality issues and also facilitate knowledge transfer, but also that sufficient effort needs to be put into balancing the reward system to achieve a long-lasting effect.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115110366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dario Assante, C. Capasso, O. Veneri, M. Castro, S. Martín, H. Mohammadian
{"title":"Internet of energy: new scenarios, opportunities, challenges and educational solutions","authors":"Dario Assante, C. Capasso, O. Veneri, M. Castro, S. Martín, H. Mohammadian","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453914","url":null,"abstract":"Technologies 4.0 have had disruptive innovation in various sectors, including the energy one. Smart electricity grids, leveraging smart metering and data analysis systems, can provide a level of monitoring, control and optimization unimaginable until a decade ago. Network management mechanisms based on demand-response models may soon be a reality, thanks to smart contracts, blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine-to-machine technologies. These changes are leading to a radical change in the skills required by the labor market to operate in the energy sector, as well as the birth of new professional figures with both electricity and IT skills. This paper aims to illustrate the new opportunities and challenges that the Internet of Energy will bring. It also wants to present the results of the IoE-EQ project, which designed new professional qualifications, VET courses and open educational resources to support the training of staff involved in the digital transition of the energy sector.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116035767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Peña-Becerril, C. Camacho-Zuñiga, César Martínez-Peña, Julio César González-Balderas
{"title":"Building a Truly Inclusive Protocol for Students with Disabilities from an Experience in STEM areas","authors":"M. Peña-Becerril, C. Camacho-Zuñiga, César Martínez-Peña, Julio César González-Balderas","doi":"10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454024","url":null,"abstract":"Three of the most reported strategies for students with disabilities (SWD) along their stay in higher education institutions include adapting changes in management and facilities through protocols that focused on Admission, Retention and Graduation. These strategies are important, although they do not guarantee full inclusivity during the teaching, learning and evaluation process. In this work, through a qualitatively methodology, we describe the perceptions of inclusivity of five lecturers, eight undergraduates and one SWD in science courses for Computer Systems Engineering. Furthermore, we report one successful experience to design an inclusive evaluation in a Mathematics course. The evidence found in this work suggests that the center of every protocol for SWD should be focused on Attention, as a new and longer stage. This stage includes e.g. teacher training, inclusive curriculum (for teaching and evaluation), student service and university extension programs, and inclusivity-focused research. Our purpose is to address this experience to the engineering community and promote the establishment of policies towards a more inclusive higher education system.","PeriodicalId":178923,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131881733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}