TEACHING PEDAGOGY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Impact of Advance Pedagogy in Engineering and Outcome based Education

In this paper, Engineering and Technological Education have been analyzed by the impact of Engineering Pedagogy and Outcome Base Education (EPOBE).To attract more youthful people into engineering and ensure that they are well equipped to meet future professional challenges, we have to know how successful engineers reflect and proceed when they are faced with challenging problems. The speculatio...

Engineering Education Island: Teaching Engineering in Virtual Worlds

In recent years there has been significant growth in the use of 3D virtual worlds for e-learning and distance education. These immersive environments offer the ability to create complex, highly interactive simulations using in-world modelling and scripting tools. Virtual learning environments support teaching and learning in an educational context, offering the functionality to manage the prese...

Special Issue—Pedagogy for Education for Sustainability in Higher Education

Towards better teaching: productive pedagogy as a framework for teacher education

In this paper, we explore Productive Pedagogy (PP) as a framework for enhancing teacher education. Reporting results from a study involving student teachers’ application of the four principles of PP during an internship, we consider whether PP brings a firmer knowledge base to their work. Based on our analysis of the data, we argue for a more fundamental reorganisation of teacher education to f...

Productive Pedagogy as a Framework for Teacher Education: Towards Better Teaching

Not all graduates of teacher education programs become great teachers. Critiques of teaching quality consistently point a finger at teacher education, implying that if only teacher preparation was improved then better teaching would be more common. Teacher educators quite rightly identify all kinds of external factors that undermine their best efforts such as the poor funding of teacher educati...