Description
The aim of this module is to provide module participants with deeper insights into learning and teaching in engineering by:
- Exploring the historical shifts in thinking on engineering practice during the 20th and early 21st centuries and their impact on approaches to engineering education and pedagogy so as to provide a historical context for learning, teaching and assessment in engineering;
- Introducing and critiquing current learning, teaching and assessment practices in engineering education, and bringing out their main advantages and disadvantages with a view to identifying the opportunities and challenges for their successful deployment;
- Introducing current debates and issues on the use of technology in engineering education, and exploring and identifying the opportunities and challenges for technology enhanced learning in engineering;
- Exploring current debates and issues in engineering curriculum design, and identifying the opportunities and challenges relating to engineering curriculum transformation;
- Fostering engagement with the current scholarly literature on learning and teaching in engineering and exploring evidence-based approaches for the critical and reflective evaluation of own learning and teaching practice.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.
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