scholarly journals Ambientes virtuales colaborativos: el uso de wikis en la enseñanza de la física universitaria

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Margarita Pérez Acosta ◽  
Thamara Josefina Fagúndez Zambrano ◽  
Alicia Judith González Rodríguez ◽  
Naykiavick Del Carmen Rangel Cuicas
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Interpretive Case Study ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Wiki Technology ◽  
Scientific Report ◽  
The University

Resumen El presente estudio tiene como propósito describir las experiencias de estudiantes de ingeniería en la utilización de la tecnología Wiki, a través de la plataforma Aula Virtual de Ingeniería. Los participantes de la investigación son estudiantes cursantes de la asignatura Física Mecánica, perteneciente al Departamento de Física de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Carabobo. La aproximación metodológica es cualitativa y se enmarca en un estudio de casos descriptivo e interpretativo, cuyos resultados ponen de manifiesto la preferencia de los estudiantes en cuanto al uso de otros tipos de recursos electrónicos para la elaboración de un informe científico, frente a la utilización de los Wiki en el proceso de redacción de los mismos. Palabras clave Aprendizaje, colaborativo, cooperativo, física, ingeniería, plataforma de enseñanza, Wiki.   Abstract   This study aims to describe the experience of engineering students in the use of Wiki technology, in the platform for Engineering Virtual Classroom. The research was carried out with students studying the subject physics mechanics, belonging to the Department of Physics of the Faculty of engineering of the University of Carabobo. The methodological approach is qualitative and fits into a descriptive and interpretive, case study results show the preference of the students in the use of other types of electronic resources for the elaboration of a scientific report, against the use of the Wiki in the process of drafting.Keywords Collaborative, cooperative, engineering, learning, physics, platform for education, Wiki. 

scholarly journals A Simple but Efficient Concept of Blended Teaching of Mathematics for Engineering Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Saray Busto ◽  
Michael Dumbser ◽  
Elena Gaburro
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Video Quality ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Teaching Of Mathematics ◽  
Online Streaming ◽  
The University ◽  
Blended Teaching

In this article we present a case study concerning a simple but efficient technical and logistic concept for the realization of blended teaching of mathematics and its applications in theoretical mechanics that was conceived, tested and implemented at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (DICAM) of the University of Trento, Italy, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept foresees traditional blackboard lectures with a reduced number of students physically present in the lecture hall, while the same lectures are simultaneously made available to the remaining students, who cannot be present, via high-quality low-bandwidth online streaming. The case study presented in this paper was implemented in a single University Department and was carried out with a total of n=1011 students and n=68 professors participating in the study. Based on our first key assumption that traditional blackboard lectures, including the gestures and the facial expressions of the professor, are even nowadays still a very efficient and highly appreciated means of teaching mathematics at the university, this paper deliberately does not want to propose a novel pedagogical concept of how to teach mathematics at the undergraduate level, but rather presents a technical concept of how to preserve the quality of traditional blackboard lectures even during the COVID-19 pandemic and how to make them available to the students at home via online streaming with adequate audio and video quality even at low internet bandwidth. The second key assumption of this paper is that the teaching of mathematics is a dynamic creative process that requires the physical presence of students in the lecture hall as audience so that the professor can instantaneously fine-tune the evolution of the lecture according to his/her perception of the level of attention and the facial expressions of the students. The third key assumption of this paper is that students need to have the possibility to interact with each other personally, especially in the first years at the university. We report on the necessary hardware, software and logistics, as well as on the perception of the proposed blended lectures by undergraduate students from civil and environmental engineering at the University of Trento, Italy, compared to traditional lectures and also compared to the pure online lectures that were needed as emergency measure at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The evaluation of the concept was carried out with the aid of quantitative internet bandwidth measurements, direct comparison of transmitted video signals and a careful analysis of ex ante and ex post online questionnaires sent to students and professors.

scholarly journals Utilization of the Maryland Environmental Justice Screening Tool: A Bladensburg, Maryland Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aubree Driver ◽  
Crystal Mehdizadeh ◽  
Samuel Bara-Garcia ◽  
Coline Bodenreider ◽  
Jessica Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Air Toxics ◽  
Prince George's County ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Demographic Indicators ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Maryland School ◽  
The University

Maryland residents’ knowledge of environmental hazards and their health effects is limited, partly due to the absence of tools to map and visualize distribution of risk factors across sociodemographic groups. This study discusses the development of the Maryland EJSCREEN (MD EJSCREEN) tool by the National Center for Smart Growth in partnership with faculty at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. The tool assesses environmental justice risks similarly to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) EJSCREEN tool and California’s tool, CalEnviroScreen 3.0. We discuss the architecture and functionality of the tool, indicators of importance, and how it compares to USEPA’s EJSCREEN and CalEnviroScreen. We demonstrate the use of MD EJSCREEN through a case study on Bladensburg, Maryland, a town in Prince George’s County (PG) with several environmental justice concerns including air pollution from traffic and a concrete plant. Comparison reveals that environmental and demographic indicators in MD EJSCREEN most closely resemble those in EPA EJSCREEN, while the scoring is most similar to CalEnviroScreen. Case study results show that Bladensburg has a Prince George’s environmental justice score of 0.99, and that National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) air toxics cancer risk is concentrated in communities of color.

scholarly journals Cognitive management and the possibility of its application and development: A case study of the central library in Mustansiriya University

2018 ◽  
Vol 224 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-414
Author(s):  
Inst. sienaa Shimal
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The University ◽  
Responsible Party ◽  
Theoretical Side

 The research aims to diagnose the reality of cognitive Management in the Central Library at the University of Sulaymaniyah, and to identify the level of awareness for the management of knowledge among workers in the library. The researcher followed the documentary approach in the theoretical side and the case study method in the practical side, as has been the adoption of the questionnaire as a key tool in the search was distributed on (31) employees exited the study results of several most important: The lack of a responsible party means to oversee operations and knowledge management accounting (16%) . The training is the most prominent ways to develop the application of knowledge management in the library from the perspective of employees through their participation in training courses.

scholarly journals Integrating Green-Infrastructures Design in Strategic Spatial Planning with Geodesign

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Campagna ◽  
Elisabetta Anna Di Cesare ◽  
Chiara Cocco
Keyword(s):  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Comprehensive Planning ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Territorial Systems

In the last decades green infrastructure planning, design, and management have been widely recognized as a way to contribute to reach higher levels of sustainability of development. However, often green infrastructures are considered in a sectoral way, while their design should be more integrated within comprehensive planning and design. The paper proposes the use of geodesign methods and technology to support the early phases of integrated strategic territorial planning, in order to enrich the relationships between the design of green infrastructure and of the other relevant systems via more comprehensive planning and design, and by applying systems thinking. A case study developed with architecture and engineering students under the umbrella of the International Geodesign Collaboration is used, to demonstrate how with intensive geodesign workshops it is possible to create spatially explicit design scenarios which take into account the relationships between green infrastructure and other territorial systems and dynamics. A set of analyses on the case study results of the two scales is used to demonstrate the assumption. It is also argued that geodesign intensive workshops can, in a very short time, contribute to raising the awareness among the participants of collaborative design to the importance of green infrastructure in strategic territorial planning.

scholarly journals The Role of Continuous Education Programs Organized by Saudi Universities in Literacy—A Case Study of King Saud University

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Haya Saad Abdulla Al Rawaf ◽  
Azza Khalil Abdel Fattah ◽  
Fadia Yousif Abdel Megeid ◽  
Rania Mohammed Aziz Nazmy ◽  
Sarah Nasser Alarifi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Continuous Education ◽  
King Saud University ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The University

This study aims at highlighting the role of Continuous Education Programs at the Saudi Universities in Religious, Social, and Health Literacy; King Saud University was taken as an example. To achieve the goals of the study two questionnaires were distributed among two samples from King Saud University; (101) of students, and (9) of continuous education centers’ directors. Results showed that continuous education programs presented in religious awareness development do not contribute sufficiently in developing them. However; continuous education programs have favorable role in community’s social culturing. Also, continuous education programs contribute, at medium degree, in community’s health culturing. On the other hand; people in charge agree that the investment revenue in financing continuous education programs is minor as well as financing offered by the University. In light of the study results, the researchers recommended paying more attention to present more continuous education programs of concern as to individuals’ needs through cooperation with the research center in the University to perform survey studies targeted to define the individuals’ needs in terms of religious, social and health issues.

scholarly journals Cooperative Learning Environment in Teaching Mobile Application Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Antonio Márcio Albuquerque Almeida ◽  
Leonardo Pires De Sousa Silva ◽  
Francisco Heitor Vasconcelos ◽  
Rômulo Nunes De Carvalho Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

The evolution in the formation of techniques in technological vocational education constitutes a series of pedagogical strategies that allow the learning, exercise, incentive and practice of students. The projects of interdisciplinary in the university aims to assist in learning the individual with the incentive of activities directed for collaborating with students in undergraduate. These projects are important for undergraduate courses in electrical engineering and computing engineering at the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Sobral campus. With the main objectives of the project is to encourage the student to learn to academic growth. This article presents a case study developed by the project called the cooperative learning cell for the development of android applications, applied in groups of engineering students in the first and second semesters, using recent teaching methods aimed at learning, occurring in the period from September to December 2016. The main objective of the project was to promote the learning and sharing of knowledge about the programming content for mobile devices, aimed at the android operating system. In addition, it seeks to stimulate the student with more interactive content, applying examples and activities related to mobile programming that were related with the content of the engineering course or the labor market. After the group of students was created, nine meetings took place in each of them, the cooperative learning methodology was applied to the group, where the knowledge was generated through the interaction between two or more people, resulting in an active participation of the educational process. The classes were designed with a focus on content exposure, challenges and small projects to solve group tasks. In addition, professionals working in engineering companies in the northern region of Ceará were invited to give lectures to show the current situation of the labor market, focused on mobile applications. Evaluating the result over the course of the project. Keywords: Educational incentive, Cooperation, Engineering Teaching, Android.

scholarly journals EL AULA VIRTUAL. UNA ALTERNATIVA TECNOLÓGICA PARA EL APRENDIZAJE

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 01
Author(s):  
Dangel Roque Aguilar ◽  
María Jústiz Guerra ◽  
Norma Cabrera Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Classroom ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Psychology Education ◽  
School Year ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Independent Tasks

El trabajo que se presenta constituye una evidencia de la necesidad de incorporar al proceso docente educativo los recursos de la ciencia y la tecnología para elevar la motivación y la independencia en la solución de las tareas de aprendizaje, a tono con los reclamos de la informatización en la sociedad cubana. En tal sentido, se muestran los resultados de la aplicación del aula virtual de la asignatura Fisiología del Desarrollo Humano a estudiantes de 1er año de la carrera Lic. Educación Pedagogía Psicología de la Universidad de Camagüey, Cuba, de las modalidades curso diurno y curso por encuentro, durante el curso escolar 2016- 17. El aula diseñada presenta una modelación atractiva, con los recursos necesarios para propiciar el desarrollo de las tareas independientes de cada uno de los temas y aporta una valiosa compilación de materiales bibliográficos que resultan útiles para este empeño por lo que se corrobora el impacto significativo en el desarrollo del aprendizaje de los estudiantes, de tal forma que resulta más dinámico y significativo. PALABRAS CLAVE: motivación; independencia; aula virtual; enseñanza; aprendizaje. VIRTUAL CLASSROOM. A TECHNOLOGICAL ALTERNATIVE FOR LEARNING ABSTRACT The work presented is evidence of the need to incorporate into the educational teaching process the resources of science and technology to raise motivation and independence in the solution of learning tasks, in tune with the demands of computerization in The Cuban society. In this sense, results of the application of the virtual classroom of the subject Human Development Physiology to 1st year students of the Specialist in Pedagogy Psychology Education course of the University of Camagüey, Cuba, of the modalities of the day course and course by Meetings during the 2016-17 school year. The classroom designed presents an attractive modeling, with the necessary resources to promote the development of the independent tasks of each one of the subjects and provides a valuable compilation of bibliographical materials that are useful for this effort So that the significant impact on the development of student learning is corroborated in a way that is more dynamic and meaningful. KEYWORDS: motivation; independence; virtual classroom; teaching; learning.

scholarly journals Integration of Environmental Management in an industrial and logistic engineer course in Morocco

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
SAFIA LAMRANI
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Technical Aspect ◽  
Industrial Engineering ◽  
Real Case ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
The University

This work describes a real case study of integration of Environmental Management in the training of State engineers in Industrial and Logistics Engineering, from the National Superior School of Electricity and Mechanics (ENSEM) in Casablanca to Morocco. The study focused on the particular aspect of waste management within the university institution. The principle adopted is mainly that of 3R (Reduction; Reuse; Recycling). The project approach was adopted. In addition to the technical aspect, the acquisition, by the engineering students, of managerial and communication skills was made possible thanks to this approach. A multitude of tools inspired by industrial engineering and logistics techniques have been deployed in response to the problems encountered in the field.

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