TY - GEN
T1 - Project Based Learning or the Rethinking of an Engineering Subject
T2 - 8th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality, TEEM 2020
AU - Petchamé, Josep
AU - Iriondo, Ignasi
AU - Riu, David
AU - Masi, Toni
AU - Almajano, Albert
AU - Fonseca, David
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was co-funded by the support of the Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca of the Department of Business and Knowledge of the Generalitat de Catalunya with the help of 2017 SGR 934, and also the research that led to these results was carried out using funds from “Obra Social–la Caixa” and aid for the intensification of the research activity of the PDI (Personal Docente Investigador) of the URL (Ramon Llull University) for the first term of the course 2019–20 (rector resolution URL/R21/2019) with the number: 2019-URL-IR1rQ-043.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/10/21
Y1 - 2020/10/21
N2 - Changes in society often imply rethinking approaches to certain ways of doing things. Changes in students that enter university may require a rethinking of certain subjects. This document presents the redesign of an engineering subject with the goal of improving the students' classroom experience. The change implies moving from methodology based on traditional magistral classes to a methodology based on Project Based Learning and non-traditional class sessions. Besides, the evaluation of the students will be done by means of three types of assessment, performed by two kinds of actors: professors and students (the last ones, by means of Self-Assessment and Peer to Peer Assessment). Once the Project Based Learning methodology has been implemented, it seems wise to find out the students' perception of the subject. To do that, a questionnaire to assess motivation, based on MSLQ, was performed (on completion of the course), as well as a satisfaction survey (completed when students had attended half of the total class sessions). Results seem to confirm that the redesign has been effective, although some issues that should be adjusted in the next future were identified.
AB - Changes in society often imply rethinking approaches to certain ways of doing things. Changes in students that enter university may require a rethinking of certain subjects. This document presents the redesign of an engineering subject with the goal of improving the students' classroom experience. The change implies moving from methodology based on traditional magistral classes to a methodology based on Project Based Learning and non-traditional class sessions. Besides, the evaluation of the students will be done by means of three types of assessment, performed by two kinds of actors: professors and students (the last ones, by means of Self-Assessment and Peer to Peer Assessment). Once the Project Based Learning methodology has been implemented, it seems wise to find out the students' perception of the subject. To do that, a questionnaire to assess motivation, based on MSLQ, was performed (on completion of the course), as well as a satisfaction survey (completed when students had attended half of the total class sessions). Results seem to confirm that the redesign has been effective, although some issues that should be adjusted in the next future were identified.
KW - Active Methodologies
KW - ICTs Engineering Studies
KW - Motivation
KW - Project Based Learning
KW - Subject Redesign
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100577653&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3434780.3436542
DO - 10.1145/3434780.3436542
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85100577653
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 267
EP - 272
BT - Proceedings - TEEM 2020, 8th International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality
A2 - Garcia-Penalvo, Francisco Jose
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 21 October 2020 through 23 October 2020
ER -