ALE 2009
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Transformative learning – in action
(2009)
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Ngos autonomous learning promotion supported by an engineering practical and participatory methodology: AEI Foundation1 case
(2009)
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Open AccessThis article presents the experience and results obtained through a participatory construction process of autonomous learning in the AEI Foundation, a Colombian environmental NGO. The foundation interest was to have an ... -
How to evaluate the change from linear thinking to systems thinking for industrial engineering students?
(2009)
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Open AccessThis paper aims to present a strategy evolution heads to build the ability of system thinking of industrial engineering students. The initial strategy starts with a pilot test, which provides tools to observe students’ ... -
A model of active and significative learning in the resolution of problems
(2009)
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Open AccessIn this paper we present a description and analysis of an activity held in the Mathematics courses in Engineering at the Universidade de Caxias do Sul. The research was planned taking into account requirements for the ... -
A calculus course with interactive support on Moodle
(2009)
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Open AccessWe are offering a course on Calculus. The contents of this course are adapted to the contents of a Calculus subject in any Engineering high degree or scientific Bachelor. But there is something that makes this course ... -
Activating teaching methods, studying responses and learning
(2009)
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Open AccessStudents’ study strategies when exposed to activating teaching methods are measured, analysed and compared to study strategies in more traditional lecture-based teaching. The resulting learning outcome is discussed. -
Active learning and autonomous learning: an educational experience
(2009)
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Open AccessThe obtained experience in the active and the autonomous learning tasks execution in the teaching of the subject: Reinforced Concrete Structures and Devices Construction, of the career of Technical Architecture by the ... -
Improving teamwork abilities across cultural differences: Belbin group role theory applied
(2009)
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Open AccessThe Belbin method has been applied at the education in Arctic Technology in Greenland as a way of improving the student s teamwork abilities. The feedback from the students is that Belbin is a meaningful and relevant ... -
Lessons in groups ("LIG"): an original active way to study lessons
(2009)
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Open AccessWe present here research for deriving a collaborative learning situation which is not base don a Project or problem. The method mainly consists in working in small teams (4 or 5 students) in order to debate on a lesson ... -
Teamwork assessment in order to promote engineering students innovative attitude
(2009)
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Open AccessThis paper presents an outline of the evaluation of the active learning taking place in an engineering course1 in the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. The course intends to contribute to the development of the innovative ... -
Substitute your lectures by cooperative problem-based learning (PBL) sessions
(2009)
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Open AccessThis paper shows examples of assignments, which have been redesigned in order to centre teaching in the student‘s learning, which is one of the requisites of the EHEA. Our approach has been to teach content through the ... -
Experiences on emotion-based techniques aimed at enhancing the performance of the learning process
(2009)
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Open AccessAccording to numerous works, the performance of the learning process depend s on the emotions of the students. In my opinion, it is particularly interesting to consider the role of emotions in learning in areas where ... -
Is engagement with a purpose the essence of active learning?
(2009)
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Open AccessIn the 2009 edition of the conference on “Active Learning in Engineering Education”, there were several and fruitful discussions within a small workgroup about the essence of active learning. At the end we came with an ... -
Teamwork assessment in order to promote engineering students’ innovative attitude
(2009)
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Open AccessThis paper presents an outline of the evaluation of the active learning taking place in an engineering course in the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. The course intends to contribute to the development of the innovative ... -
Widening the perception of engineering within society
(2009)
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Open AccessIn general, our society has no real views on or has an inappropriate idea about what engineering means. Everything related to pollution, bad usage of natural resources and human endeavours is connected to engineering. ... -
Diagnosis of teaching conceptions of engineering faculty at the Universidade de Caxias do Sul
(2009)
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Open AccessIn order to diagnose the teaching conceptions of engineering faculty at the Universidade de Caxias do Sul, 17 engineering faculty were interviewed. The results indicate serious deficiencies in the scientific and pedagogical ... -
Defying some difficulties of the assessment of several generic competences
(2009)
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Open AccessA reference to concepts, procedures and attitudes and also to acquisition of capacities was frequent when people were interchanging opinions about the aspects that could be evaluated in a university-level student. Now, ... -
TXT as a vehicle for service learning
(2009)
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Open AccessService-learning is a method of teaching, learning and reflecting that combines academic classroom curriculum with meaningful service throughout the community. As a teaching methodology, it falls under the philosophy of ... -
Student-tutor for a PBL module: making the experience relevant for a future engineer
(2009)
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Open AccessDuring their first week of engineering studies at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Toulouse, France, 300 first year students are introduced to Project/problem Based Learning thanks to an introductory module ... -
Active learning in learning communities: toward an autonomous and shared learning
(2009)
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Open AccessStarting with our work on organizational redesign in different Colombian organizations, we have advanced in the concepts of Learning Communities, Shared and Permanent Learning, Flexible Organizational Structure, Participative ... -
Active learning strategies applied to experimental research works conducted by foreign students in food engineering studies
(2009)
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Open AccessForeign students that come for a short stay usually need a cultural adaptation process due mainly to lacks in language skills and cultural differences. These facts involve that some alternative methods have to be developed ... -
Teaching with emerging experience: to develop leadership and innovation skills
(2009)
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Open AccessThis paper is based on a hands-on session proposed at ALE 2009 Conference (Active Learning for Engineering Education). It presents a teaching practice used at Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP) to foster engineering students’ ... -
Defying some difficulties of the assessment of several generic competences
(2009)
Conference report
Open AccessA reference to concepts, procedures and attitudes and also to acquisition of capacities was frequent when people were interchanging opinions about the aspects that could be evaluated in a university-level student. Now, ... -
The debate between the students: element of learning knowledge and skills
(2009)
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Open AccessThe debate, between different participants, in that there are requested those who they compete for a working place that they defend an idea. There is valued his (her) capacity of persuasion, his (her) fluency of speech, ... -
Protocol and material for the introduction to the laboratory experimentation
(2009)
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Open AccessIntroducing students in the world of the experimentation has always been a complicated task, since the students are not familiar with the new work place. They have to handle different measuring devices, interiorize the ... -
Tintin in the land of PBL
(2009)
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Open AccessIn PBL, the quality of the problem-situation has the greatest impact on group work and the investment and motivation of the students in the group. A very important aspect of the situation is that it comforts one’s own ... -
Making a virtual learning environment for non-assisted physics laboratory
(2009)
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Open AccessThe Physics laboratory is usually the main place where our students of engineering approach to the physical daily reality, from the technological and the scientific point of view, through experiments and motivating ... -
Implementing active learning: a challenge to teachers and students in higher education
(2009)
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Open AccessHigher education is in a process of changing conditions. Many of these changes concerns teaching and learning and the challenges both teachers and students need to be able to meet in the near future. This paper deals with ... -
What does it take to adopt portafolio practices?: the student perspective
(2009)
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Open AccessThe objective of a research training process, from the learning perspective, is to acquire a set of basic competences that translate into a high level of professional and technical maturity. The use of a portfolio as a ... -
Defining, profiling and accommodating learning diversity in an international PBL-environment
(2009)
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Open AccessThis paper investigates the wide diversity of learning experience, values and expectations of both students and lecturers in an international PBL environment. The results are based on 24 PBL- related learning parameters ...