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Matthew M. Grondin; Michael I. Swart; Claire Huggett; Kate Fu; Mitchell J. Nathan – Grantee Submission, 2024
This full paper considers how collaborative discourse can reveal ways upper-class engineering students mechanically reason about engineering concepts. Argumentation and negotiation during collaborative, multimodal discourse using speech and gestures helps establish common ground between learners and fosters reflection on their conceptual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Discourse Analysis, Speech Communication
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Zachariah Beck; Brandon Alpert; Alexander Bowman; William R. Watson; Adrian B. Tepole – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
Video games have emerged as a medium for learning by creating engaging environments, encouraging creative and deep thinking, and exposing learners to complex problems. Unfortunately, even though there are increasing examples of video games for many basic science and engineering concepts, similar efforts for higher level engineering concepts such…
Descriptors: Video Games, Technology Uses in Education, Biomedicine, Engineering Education
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Jonathan Tummons – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
This paper provides an account of the everyday workplace learning of cycle technicians. Derived from an ethnography of working cultures and practices at a bike shop in the North of England, this paper rests on a critical reading of Communities of Practice theory in order to explore the complex and heterogeneous learning of cycle technicians.…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional Personnel, Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Transportation
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Wira Gauthama; Oke Hendra; Pangsa Rizkina Aswia; Direstu Amalia – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to provide an example of curriculum development for vocational higher education in aviation, specifically in the aircraft maintenance engineering program, while considering the anticipated technological changes in the industry. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative methods, including document analysis, in-depth…
Descriptors: Aviation Mechanics, Mechanics (Process), Educational Development, Independent Study