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Ward, Lauren; Lyden, Sarah; Fitzallen, Noleine – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2016
Context based learning (CBL) is a powerful tool that utilises areas of student interest framed in meaningful contexts to foster development of new skills and understanding. For middle school students, engineering activities that relate to real-world problems provide suitable CBL contexts for acquiring conceptual scientific and mathematical…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods
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Lee, Mark J. W.; Nikolic, Sasha; Vial, Peter J.; Ritz, Christian H.; Li, Wanqing; Goldfinch, Tom – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2016
Project-based learning is a widely used pedagogical strategy in engineering education shown to be effective in fostering problem-solving, design, and teamwork skills. There are distinct benefits to be gained from giving students autonomy in determining the nature and scope of the projects that they wish to undertake, but a lack of expert guidance…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Engineering Education, Engineering Technology
Karmel, Tom; Lu, Tham – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This paper presents a case study in which the authors attempted to understand the impact, on student choice, of reforms in tertiary education in Australia, namely, a shift towards a demand-driven system and the blurring of the distinction between vocational education and training (VET) and higher education. The authors compared the advanced…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Associate Degrees, Engineering Technology
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Audy, Jaromir – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
The paper presents the results obtained from teaching, learning and research associated with Surf Science and Technology (SST) course taught at the South West Campus of Edith Cowan University. The main topic discussed is Teaching and Learning with the Surfboard Making. It looks at a group of recent second year SST students who, after acquiring the…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Educational Trends, Engineering Technology, Aquatic Sports
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Ku, H.; Fulcher, R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007
The aim of the current paper is to share the processes in revising the courseware of the course of "Engineering Management Science" coded as ENG4004, in the Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical and Electronic, Computer Systems, Instrumentation and Control), Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Mechanical, Building…
Descriptors: Courseware, Engineering Technology, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Software Evaluation
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Dowling, David G. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
This paper describes the pedagogical principles that underpin the design of the Master of Engineering Practice, a distance education program offered by the University of Southern Queensland. This innovative program enables experienced engineering technologists to use their workplace learning to assemble portfolios that demonstrate their…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Portfolios (Background Materials), Program Descriptions, Online Courses