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Collaborative Learning Issues and Experiences in Engineering

Collaborative Learning Issues and Experiences in Engineering. Where its coming from Some personal experiences pros and cons advice Further directions. Thomas F. Wolff, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Dean College of Engineering http://www.egr.msu.edu/~wolff. Where change is coming from.

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Collaborative Learning Issues and Experiences in Engineering

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  1. Collaborative Learning Issues and Experiences in Engineering • Where its coming from • Some personal experiences • pros and cons • advice • Further directions Thomas F. Wolff, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Dean College of Engineering http://www.egr.msu.edu/~wolff

  2. Where change is coming from • (down from)Accreditation criteria -- ABET • (down from)The profession • (up from)K - 12

  3. ABET Outcomes Criteria

  4. Personal Experiences • Junior, required class with lab • informal and formal groups • Senior, design class • formal groups, multi-functioning • Graduate class with lab • formal groups and informal groups • Graduate analysis design classes • formal and informal groups • Freshman orientation

  5. Why participate ? • Instructor will put you on the spot • Material and issues are so connected to practice that its obvious to student they need to know this • Employers want to see portfolio examples of teaming, communication and synthesis

  6. Informal Groups • What do you know before I tell you ? • What are some ways we could …. ? • Divide class to work parts of problem • Will require at least four random presenters in class of 30 - 50

  7. Formal Groups • Foundation Design for Historic Bridge Park • Other design projects • Laboratory testing of soil properties

  8. Formal Groups • How to form them • Develop group work approachin class • Develop project outline and objectives as collaborative class project • Progress report / Partial submittal

  9. Formal Groups • Team members roles • Rotate or Self-Select ?? • Checking each other • Documentation of roles is part of project • Presentations • Informal, progress (or data).. Keep on task • Formal, to class, professors and professionals(Graded by all three groups and compared) • Report due after presentation

  10. Problems and Pitfalls • We need to communicate why we are doing this, where it is coming from, and how it will benefit them. • We need to explain how to organize the work.. This is not intrinsic! • Students need time plan before they leave. • Either define grading criteria or defend absence of it. • You are modeling reality… Be sensitive to real world problems and crises… • Engineering students are getting “over-teamed”

  11. Further Directions ? This isn’t the only new idea ….. (and its not even new) Groups Teams CooperativeLearning Inquiry

  12. The underlying principle in everything here is... Buying in to the process

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