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McFadden, Justin; Roehrig, Gillian – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
This exploratory case study examines how various instructional strategies can influence elementary-aged student discourse patterns during an engineering design challenge. With engineering design increasingly entering the elementary science classroom both within the United States and internationally, students must now engage in discipline-specific…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students, Discourse Analysis
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Cheng, G.; Zhang, C.X.; Fan, Y.C.; Li, F.F.; Lin, L.; Zhu, X.B. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2019
A plan for national education to train outstanding engineers has been put into practice at Henan Polytechnic University (HPU). Practical education is a basic characteristic of engineering education. This paper proposed ideas and models to reform the mineral processing engineering education system and also described the discipline and the objective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Mineralogy
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McAlpine, Iain; Stothard, Phillip – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2005
To enhance a course in 3D Virtual Reality (3D VR) modelling for mining engineers, and to create the potential for off campus students to fully engage with the course, a problem based learning (PBL) approach was applied to the course design and all materials and learning activities were provided online. This paper outlines some of the theoretical…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Computer Simulation, Online Courses, Problem Based Learning