Social Learning in Engineering Education

Experiential learning for Engineering Education

This paper presents elements of the experiential learning in engineering education through a real-life project case. The project included a team of university students from Hong Kong traveling to Sichuan, China and implementing various engineering systems from solar energy to e-learning systems for a reconstructed school in Sichuan, which was destroyed by the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake in 2008. So...

Problem Based Learning in Engineering Education

Problem based learning (PBL) has gained widespread approval as a student centered and student activating approach to teaching and learning. At Aalborg University this approach has been applied since the foundation of the university in 1974 and the so called Aalborg model has to some extent been developed through ‘learning by doing’. In recognition of the long experience with PBL the university ...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Distance Learning: Modern Approaches to Engineering Education

Online Engineering Education: Learning Anywhere, Anytime

The emergence of worldwide communications networks and powerful computer technologies has redefined the concept of distance learning and the delivery of engineering education content. This article discusses the Sloan Consortium’s quest for quality, scale, and breadth in online learning, the impact on both continuing education of graduate engineers as well as degree-seeking engineering students,...