Project based learning on engineering : foundations, applications and challenges / Juan Valdes-valdes, Pedro Pardo Fernandez, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Valenzuela-Valdés, Juan, editor.

Fernández, Pedro Pardo, editor.

Series:

Education in a competitive and globalizing world series.

Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering--Study and teaching--Activity programs.

Engineering.

Project method in teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Hauppauge], New York : Nova Science Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is a worldwide interest today in improving the quality of education. Improving teaching for a more professional world is necessary; in fact, the application of the European Higher Education has encouraged the use of methodologies increasing learning activity in recent years. One of the most popular active learning methods is project-based learning or problems based learning (PBL). Despite this methodology being developed more than 30 years ago, it has shown to be one of the most suitable methodologies for obtaining meaningful learning. It also has the advantage of being combined with oth

Contents:

PROJECT BASED LEARNING ON ENGINEERING: FOUNDATIONS, APPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES; PROJECT BASED LEARNING ON ENGINEERING: FOUNDATIONS, APPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION TO PROJECT BASED LEARNING ON ENGINEERING; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PBL ORIGIN AND CHARACTERISTICS; 3. IMPLEMENTATION OF PROBLEM BASED LEARNING PROCEDURES; 4. EVALUATING THE PROCESS; 5. APPROPRIATENESS OF PBL IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION; 6. PBL IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA

7. THE CONTEXTUAL SITUATION OF PBL IN THE RESEARCH SOURCESCONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: FOUNDATIONS ON PBL; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; FOUNDATIONS; METHODOLOGY; CLASSIC METHODOLOGY OF MAASTRICHT; FOUR-PHASES METHODOLOGY; EVALUATION; RUBRIC - ORAL PRESENTATION; RUBRIC - WRITING ASSESSMENT; EVALUATION RUBRIC - WORKGROUP; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: PROBLEM DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS OF PBL IN TELEMATICS ENGINEERING; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. RELATED WORKS; 3. AIMS AND SKILLS; 4. DEVELOPMENT OF ACTIVITY; 5. CASE STUDIES; 6. STUDENT VALUATION OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

CONCLUSIONREFERENCES; Chapter 4: PBL ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT); ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. GLOBAL PROJECT BASED ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT) AT THE C. U. M.; 3. PROJECT 1 IN THE SUBJECT OF WIRELESS NETWORKS; 4. PROJECT 2 IN THE SUBJECT OF REGULATIONS AND TELECOMMUNICATION PROJECTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: PBL AND GROUP TUTORING; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; STAGES; RESULTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 6: ENHANCING E-LEARNING: PROBLEM BASED LEARNING SUPPORTED IN MOODLE; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION

DEVELOPING PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN MOODLEPBL ASSESSMENT IN MOODLE; DOING PBL IN MOODLE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 7: PROBLEM-BASED E-LEARNING (PBL) USING SYNCHRONOUS VIRTUAL TEACHING; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED; METHOD; PHASE I. DEFINE THE PROBLEM; PHASE II. RESEARCH; PHASE III. PROJECT EXECUTION; PHASE IV. PRESENTATION OF THE SOLUTION; EXPERIENCE EVALUATION; RESULTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 8: PBL WITH M-LEARNING; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. M-LEARNING EXPERIENCE "TRAINING WITH RADIO NAVIGATION SYSTEMS"

3. U-LEARNING EXPERIENCE "TRAINING IN WIRELESS NETWORKS"4. STUDENT'S OPINION ON BOTH PROJECTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 9: CONCLUSION, IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE; ABSTRACT; CONCLUSION; IMPLICATIONS AND FUTURE; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 5, 2015).

ISBN:

1-63482-234-X