{"title":"Action Research on Project-based Learning and Contest-based Learning in Higher Education","authors":"Mengjie Huang, Rui Yang","doi":"10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470750","url":null,"abstract":"Two action research projects on project-based learning and contest-based learning were conducted in teaching practice based on two specific modules in higher education. It is found that project-based learning with a well-designed project and properly delivered module contents can help students effectively achieve the learning outcomes, and contest-based learning is validated as an effective learning approach that contributes to improving students’ learning motivation and performance.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125349674","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":"Work in Progress: First Experiences with a Flipped Online Statistics Classroom for Engineering Students","authors":"Christina Andersson, G. Kroisandt","doi":"10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470682","url":null,"abstract":"Unmotivated students, acting as passive consumers, wanting to pass the exam with the least possible effort, is a common problem in basic statistics courses in undergraduate engineering education. Our course in statistics for industrial engineering students is also affected by this passivity problem. One additional issue in this course is that it is part of the study program Industrial Engineering Online, i.e. the tuition of the course takes place online, which can even more strengthen the passivity problem. Therefore, we decided to introduce active learning components in the teaching framework of the course. This paper describes the challenges and opportunities we encountered, when we flipped the online classroom in order to encourage the students to become more active learners and at the same time, hopefully, feel more motivated to take the basic statistics course.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129331837","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":"About compensation arrangements of teachers involved in e-learning trainings","authors":"G. Andrieu, C. Dalmay","doi":"10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470532","url":null,"abstract":"This paper tries to inventory the different models used in e-learning trainings (excluding non nationally accredited trainings) for the compensation arrangements of teachers all around the world following a survey we have made. Three different models have been identified. The authors provide recommendations on a solution allowing to keep the teachers involved continuously motivated to be part of an e-learning training.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131298562","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":"A Review of Competency Based Education (CBE)","authors":"M. Wyne, Lu Zhang, Ali Farahani","doi":"10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470564","url":null,"abstract":"Competency-Based Education (CBE) has been gaining popularity in the past few years, this is mainly because of changing environment of higher education. The change can be in the Learning Management System (LMS) used for offering courses or the approach used for offering courses or programs as a whole. Traditional approach to teaching and learning may still be used by most of the academic institution but others are not afraid of thinking outside the box and trying different approaches to offering courses and/or programs to their students. However, little research has been reported on some of the areas associated with Competency-Based Education (CBE) although it is claimed that CBE improves the match between educational performance and employment opportunities, thus can be more attractive for prospective students. In this survey paper, CBE definition, literature review to identify background work and some important characteristics of this model are presented. Although there are still some challenges with respect to CBE, the opportunities for improvement in higher education exist. Thus, transitioning from traditional module to a Competency-Based Education will have a significant positive impact on higher education in the future. In addition, this paper also discusses the challenges that academic institution may face in implementing Competency-Based Education as well as proposes future research directions in the area.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129698975","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}
J. Peuteman, Alain Maricau, A. Zabasta, S. Verslype, Ludovic Espeel, J. Boydens, D. Pissoort
{"title":"Computer-mediated communication based English language teaching to academic staff of Belarus and Ukraine in a COVID-19 environment","authors":"J. Peuteman, Alain Maricau, A. Zabasta, S. Verslype, Ludovic Espeel, J. Boydens, D. Pissoort","doi":"10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470698","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, online teaching is more important than ever. Synchronous computer-mediated communication is known to be useful when teaching languages. Also when teaching English to Slavic speakers, having a scientific and engineering background, motivating results can be obtained, by using rather standard digital tools (Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint presentations, audio clips and video clips). Three online sessions, mainly focusing on listening and speaking English, have been organized in order to prepare a face-to-face English language course. The trainees listened to a number of interviews and they were stimulated to speak up which avoids a monologue from the teacher. Pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar have also been exercised which increases the level of proficiency in English in the participating Belarusian and Ukrainian universities.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130035420","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. Aljaafreh, Ahmad Alabadleh, S. Alja'afreh, M. Alaqtash, Jafar Abukhait
{"title":"A Questionnaire Study on the Practice of Teaching Strategies and Technology Tools in Jordanian Engineering Teaching","authors":"A. Aljaafreh, Ahmad Alabadleh, S. Alja'afreh, M. Alaqtash, Jafar Abukhait","doi":"10.1109/e-engineering47629.2021.9470542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-engineering47629.2021.9470542","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, emerging technologies are transforming education. Specifically, engineering education has been affected the most from this trend. In fact, the use of technology in teaching and learning influences the teaching and learning experience in our society. Therefore, this work is carried to evaluate the use of modern teaching strategies and technology tools in Jordanian engineering education. This work is to further encourage faculty in Jordanian universities to use digital technologies and adopt recent teaching strategies. This study is a questionnaire-based study that was conducted at engineering faculties in Jordanian universities. One hundred responses from engineering teaching professors were collected through google forms. The results of this pilot study clearly depict that most of the Jordanian engineering teachers are still using the traditional means for teaching engineering. Consequently, there is an essential need to build the capacity of our engineering faculties and enable them to use digital tools to enrich their teaching experience. This study provides an opportunity for policymakers in Jordan to assess the impact of emerging technologies on teaching and learning and update the regulations and policies of education accordingly.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"4 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114086561","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":"An Industry-related Course Development for Mobile Communications Systems in Undergraduate Curriculum of Communications Engineering","authors":"S. Alja'afreh, Ahmad Alabadleh, A. Aljaafreh","doi":"10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470697","url":null,"abstract":"The huge and continuous evolution in mobile communications industry increases the popularity and importance of mobile communications sector in daily life of communities. This increases the jobs in this sector since 2000 and huge numbers of university graduates’ engineers are enrolled in working inside this field. However, the absence of industry-related mobile communications course has motivated Electrical Engineering Department at Mutah University to develop a new and unique course that satisfies the industry needs and reducing the gap between mobile industry and academia. This paper shows that the bachelor degree in communication engineering is the most disseminated electrical engineering major. Accordingly, the mobile communications modules (courses) in Jordanian universities are analyzed to highlight the gap with industry needs and evolutions. To highlight the industry expectation and the required skills from newly fresh graduate communications engineer, an online form is distributed among seniors, juniors and experts’ engineers in the industry. Finally, the new course objectives, context are established at Mutah University/BSc Communications Engineering course plan. The results of the course workshops and the feedback provided by students and industry representatives indicate that the developed course and its approach have achieved the goal.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132334379","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":"Online Laboratory Course using Low Tech Supplies to Introduce Digital Logic Design Concepts","authors":"Dhanya Nair","doi":"10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470699","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a Digital Logic Design Laboratory Course developed to engage students with hardware systems within an online setting. This is a junior level core course for students from Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE) and Electrical Engineering (EE). Hence, the laboratories are designed to provide the hands-on experience of breadboarding, testing and debugging essential to CE and EE while accommodating CS students with no prior hardware experience. Commercially available low-cost electronic trainers (portable workstations) are loaned to the students in addition to basic electronic components. To ensure a strong foundation in debugging, prior to utilizing these workstations, students are introduced to the concepts of design, build, test and debug through everyday stationary supplies and educational toys like Snap Circuits. Results from students’ surveys regarding their perception of such an introduction as well as their eventual confidence in breadboarding digital logic systems is discussed. The lab structure in context of the course objectives and its implementation in an online classroom is presented. Some of the student work is included for demonstration.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129579615","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}
F. D. Trujillo-Aguilera, E. B. Blázquez-Parra, A. Pérez-Herrera
{"title":"Opinions of the involved agents in learning active methodology in Engineering","authors":"F. D. Trujillo-Aguilera, E. B. Blázquez-Parra, A. Pérez-Herrera","doi":"10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-Engineering47629.2021.9470749","url":null,"abstract":"In conjunction with different active methodologies, the Flipped Classroom pedagogical model provides a substantial change in the teaching paradigm, thanks to the use of Information and Communication Technologies based tools and platforms. This methodology focuses on the acquisition of theoretical knowledge prior to the class, reserving it to reinforce the knowledge acquired, with a more practical approach.This paper contains the results of a study carried out at the School of Industrial Engineering (University of Malaga). The objective is to obtain the opinions of the application of the flipped classroom model by students and teachers, who are the essential protagonists in the teaching/learning process. In order to measure the degree of satisfaction and effectiveness, a series of surveys have been implemented for the involved agents. The results guarantee the use of this model to achieve more personalized learning in students.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115024241","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":"Implementation of Industry Inputs in Higher Education Courses","authors":"Yuanyuan Fan, Ana Evangelista, I. V","doi":"10.1109/e-engineering47629.2021.9470618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/e-engineering47629.2021.9470618","url":null,"abstract":"Higher education courses must be continuously updated to catch up with the ever-changing industrial advancements. An up-to-date course benefits all parties of interest including students, employers and the education institution. This paper discusses the process of identifying industry expectations from graduates and implementing industry inputs based on two engineering courses offered at the Engineering Institute of Technology. A generic, but detailed implementation procedure is developed. The procedure mainly involves an industry panel and a course advisory committee. The purpose of an industry panel is to make recommendations on course content, so that any gap identified between the course learning outcomes and the current industry needs is closed. The objective of a course advisory committee is to assess the industry panel proposals and implement them appropriately. Both engineering courses discussed in the paper are coursework-based master programs. The uniqueness of both courses is analyzed through comparisons. Surveys were conducted amongst the industry panels and the course advisory committees involved in the two courses. The survey results verified the effectiveness of the implementation procedure and provided additional insights. Furthermore, other factors that could affect the efficiency of the procedure are identified.","PeriodicalId":346387,"journal":{"name":"2021 International e-Engineering Education Services Conference (e-Engineering)","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128538480","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}