ERIC Number: EJ1153188
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Publication Date: 2017
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Webcasts Promote In-Class Active Participation and Learning in an Engineering Elective Course
Freguia, Stefano
European Journal of Engineering Education, v42 n5 p482-492 2017
This paper describes the design and outcomes of an educational intervention undertaken to improve the quality of delivery of a fourth-year engineering elective course--Industrial Wastewater and Solid Waste Management at the University of Queensland. The objective was to increase the level of active participation of students in planned active-learning classroom activities, including whole-class discussions and small group project-type work. According to a flipped classroom model, new online material in the form of webcasts was proposed to students before class. Students reacted very positively to the webcasts: the percentage of students viewing the webcast before planned workshop sessions ranged between 80% and 92% over the five weeks of the intervention. Enhanced engagement led also to increased attendance (85-92% at workshop sessions), and remarkable active participation in class (half of observed teams were ~80% active). Remarkably, team performance as quantified by their report marks linearly correlated with the level of active participation in class.
Descriptors: Elective Courses, Web Based Instruction, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries, College Students, Class Activities, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Student Participation, Large Group Instruction, Group Discussion, Small Group Instruction, Workshops, Statistical Analysis
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