scholarly journals Project-Based Learning and Evaluation in an Online Digital Design Course

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 646
Author(s):  
Iouliia Skliarova
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Laboratory Equipment ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Laboratory Component ◽  
Digital System Design ◽  
Core Project

This paper reports an experience of an abrupt shift from traditional teaching to distance learning within a course on digital system design using programmable logic platforms. The course organization and evaluation model had to be modified on the fly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The adopted teaching and assessment methodology puts a strong focus on the laboratory component, assigning a very significant weight to project-based evaluation. As the access to laboratory equipment was cut, all the previously accumulated experience had to be modified and adapted to new circumstances. The paper discusses teaching methods employed within the course and analyzes in detail a project-based evaluation accentuated on modeling of a simplified processor. The advantages and drawbacks of the reported teaching methods are appointed. Possible design extensions are also suggested, which permit assigning the same core project to different students. We believe that the proposed project is a valuable instructional tool, in particular, for remote learning/assessment.

scholarly journals Digital System Design for Traffic Light Controller System: A Systematic Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 169-175
Author(s):  
To Nhi Ho. T ◽  
◽  
Giao N. Pham ◽  
Quang Hung Nguyen ◽  
Binh A.Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Finite State Machine ◽  
State Machine ◽  
Digital System ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Design System ◽  
Traffic Light ◽  
Finite State ◽  
Digital System Design

In this paper, we are going to present the finite state machine, how to implement it via hardware description language (HDL), and how to use it in a real application. At first, the specification and requirements of traffic light controller are stated. Then, the system architecture based on finite state machine (FSM) are conducted. Finally, the way of using HDL as well as the test-bench simulation are given in detail. Keywords : Digital system design, System on chip, Finite State Machine, Digital Design Education, Smart Classroom.

scholarly journals Implementasi Model Project Based Learning Mata Pelajaran Geografi di Kelas X SMA Negeri 8 Luwu Timur

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Syarifuddin Syarifuddin ◽  
Ramli Umar ◽  
Rosmini Maru
Keyword(s):  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Skills Assessment ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Project Completion ◽  
Assessment Of Learning ◽  
Model Project ◽  
Written Test

 This study aims to describe the implementation of Project-Based Learning models in geography learning. The type of research is survey research. The subjects in this study were the teacher of geography, the deputy head of the curriculum, and the principal. Data collection techniques are interviews, observation, and documentation. The results showed that the form of Project-Based Learning implementation in learning geography with details: learning planning, learning implementation, and learning assessment. In learning planning is done by analyzing the contents of the 2013 curriculum content and learning design planning. Furthermore, the implementation of learning is done by determining the project, designing project completion steps, preparing project implementation schedules, completing projects, preparing reports, presenting project results, and evaluating project processes and results. Meanwhile, the assessment of learning is carried out on the aspect of attitude using observation techniques, self-assessment, and assessment between friends. Assessment of aspects of knowledge using written test techniques and assignments, as well as skills assessment using project results assessment techniques.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan implementasi  model Project-Based Learning pada pembelajaran geografi. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian survei. Subjek pada penelitian ini adalah guru mata pelajaran geografi, wakil kepala bidang kurikulum, dan kepala sekolah. Teknik pengumpulan data adalah wawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa bentuk implementasi Project-Based Learning pada pembelajaran geografi dengan rincian: perencanaan pembelajaran, pelaksanaan pembelajaran, dan penilaian pembelajaran. Pada perencanaan pembelajaran dilakukan dengan menganilisis standar isi kurikulum 2013 dan desain  pembelajaran. Selanjutnya, pelaksanaan pembelajaran dilakukan dengan penentuan proyek, perancangan langkah-langkah penyelesaian proyek, penyusunan jadwal pelaksanaan proyek, penyelesaian proyek, penyusunan laporan, presentasi hasil proyek, dan evaluasi proses serta hasil proyek. Sementara, penilaian pembelajaran dilakukan pada aspek sikap dengan menggunakan teknik observasi, penilaian diri, dan penilaian antar teman. Penilaian pada aspek pengetahuan dengan menggunakan teknik  tes tertulis dan penugasan, serta penilaian keterampilan dengan menggunakan teknik penilaian hasil proyek.

Evaluation of teaching methods of chemistry concepts through laboratory work: A case study of chemistry department, faculty of natural sciences, Shaheed Professor Rabbani Education University

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Humapar Azhar Rahimi ◽  
Deana Qarizada ◽  
Abdul Hadi Stanikzai
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Laboratory Work ◽  
Laboratory Equipment ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
Active Teaching ◽  
Evaluation Of Teaching ◽  
Department Faculty

This research has been carried out under the title of (Evaluation of teaching methods of chemistry concepts through laboratory work). The main objective of this research is to investigate learning and teaching methods, concepts that are taught by laboratory works and the challenges that may the teaching and learning methods face from the perspective of lecturers and students. In this research, to collect the statistical information a type of applications method and combined methods (related to library and region) has been used. In view of Cochran formula and Morgan table. The sampling method was selected systematically on random bases. In addition, the questionnaires were distributed to (136) students and (8) lecturers and their comments were collected. Based on the result of this study, researchers and lecturers have made it clear that the teaching methods of the concepts of chemistry by using laboratory works are directly related to various subjects in a complex concept, and students are taught by the activity of exploratory, exploration, problem-solving skills, and project centered. However, it can be possible in existence of sufficient materials and equipment. The majority of students and lecturers reminded the lack of laboratory, equipment and lack of knowledge of lecturers from active teaching methods of the laboratory.

scholarly journals Impact of Cooperative Learning Approaches on Students’ Academic Achievement and Laboratory Proficiency in Biology Subject in Selected Rural Schools, Ethiopia

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyayu Molla ◽  
Meseret Muche
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Gain ◽  
Laboratory Equipment ◽  
The Impact

The main objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of cooperative learning methods on students’ academic achievement and laboratory proficiency in biology subject. Quasi-experimental control group interrupted time series design was employed. Data pertaining to these variables were collected from 369 students and 18 biology teachers in three schools. A series of biological tests and semistructured questionnaire were used to collect data. Multivariate analysis (two-way ANOVA) was used to analyze the test scores exposed by teaching methods, and semistructured questionnaire was administered to comprehend factors that hamper the successive execution of CL. Hence, multivariate analysis revealed that there was no significant (P>0.05) difference in the pretest score of the learner academic performance; however, there were significant differences (P<0.01) in the posttest results by teaching methods, but not by schools. Correspondingly, there were significant differences in the pretest P<0.05 and posttest (P<0.01) results of the students’ laboratory proficiency by teaching methods. The results exemplify that there was significant learning gain obtained via CLAD followed by cooperative discussion group (CDG). The result from the questionnaire survey showed that the number of students, lack of laboratory equipment, and so on hamper consecutive execution of CL.

Polytechnic Design Thinking From the Beginning

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rustin Webster ◽  
Joseph Dues
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Final Project ◽  
College Of Technology ◽  
Team Project

In August 2013, the Purdue University President and Board of Trustees designated the transformation of the College of Technology into the Purdue Polytechnic Institute as one of Purdue’s “Big Moves”. This transformation requires changes of enormous breadth and depth for everyone in the college. Now, almost half-way through the transformation, milestones and expectations continue to be met. However, much work is still to be done to fully execute a successful transformation. The transformation continues to allow faculty extraordinary opportunities to revise many parts of the college, including curricula, instruction methods, learning spaces, etc. A key characteristic of the transformation is creating learning environments that are student-centered with innovative instruction techniques. TECH 120 – “Design Thinking in Technology”, is a freshman level survey course designed to develop a student’s perspective and enhance their skills in living and working in a technological society while introducing them to the College of Technology — now Purdue Polytechnic. Prior to the fall 2015 semester, Purdue Polytechnic New Albany decided to redesign portions of their TECH 120 course. The aim was to improve team project-based learning opportunities while incorporating modernized teaching methods. With a fresh set of eyes and collaboration between new and tenured faculty the projects, lectures, and assessments were all analyzed looking for areas for higher level of innovation and creativity. The aim for the overall effort was to increase student success rate (i.e. successful completion of assigned project tasks) while improving the alignment with elements of the transformation. In past semesters, the course consisted of a mixture of traditional instructor-led lectures and a series of team projects. Each individual project part was intended to build upon each other while promoting the successful completion of a much larger final task. At the core of each project was LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT. The second generation set in the MINDSTORMS series is a programmable robotics kit that is based on robotics technology similar to that used in industry today. Each group (3–4 students) were given their own kit at the beginning of the semester. The final project statement was to design and build an autonomous robot which could identify and follow a light source attached to an instructor’s robot, which would be driven around a room. This task proved to be difficult and had a low success rate. The new project is to design and build a robot that autonomously draws the initials (first and last name) of each team member within an assigned writing zone on a poster. The constant and open collaboration between the two TECH 120 instructors and the incorporation of student input proved to be important during the redesign. The success rate at the end of the semester increased. From course surveys, data also shows that students’ enjoyment and interest in the final project increased. This short paper will describe the introduction to a team project-based activity in a polytechnic setting which uses modernized teaching methods. Preliminary findings and observations will be presented.

A comparative study of three teaching methods on student information literacy in stand-alone credit-bearing university courses

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 601-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danica Dolničar ◽  
Bojana Boh Podgornik ◽  
Tomaž Bartol
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Learning Groups ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Student Information ◽  
Searching Skills

Three teaching methods, applied to credit-bearing information literacy (IL) university courses, were evaluated and compared. The effects of lecture-based learning (LBL), project-based learning (PjBL) and problem-based learning (PBL) were investigated using the information literacy test (ILT) as an assessment tool, with regard to the total ILT score, specific IL contents according to the five ACRL standards and students’ mental skills according to the Bloom’s cognitive categories. While all three teaching methods showed a significant improvement in the ILT post-test, the active-learning groups of PjBL and PBL scored significantly better than the LBL group. The most notable positive difference was observed in students’ effective access to information related to database searching skills, in the intellectual property/ethics issues and in the cognitive category of comprehension. The PjBL and PBL post-test results did not differ significantly, indicating that both active learning methods resulted in similar improvements of students’ IL.

scholarly journals Teaching Societal Leadership Through Design: Case Study of a Cohort-Based Social Innovation Engineering Leadership Program

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Huynh ◽  
Mike Klassen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Design Case Study ◽  
Student Team

 Abstract – Engineering students are well equipped with a technical background to become agents of social change. This paper highlights a co-curricular social innovation program that aims to foster that potential through team-based project-based learning. Key teaching methods are described, such as how students establish a vision, scope complex projects, effectively build teams, and leverage failure and iteration for learning. The program faces challenges maintaining student engagement and getting them to fully embrace learning through failure, but has had significant success in fostering self-reflection. It has also been successful in creating a structure whereby personal and leadership learning happen alongside design and project-oriented learning. There is opportunity for the teaching methods and structure of this program to be applied to other contexts in an effort to improve student team learning outcomes and find ways to integrate leadership learning into core technical and design courses.

scholarly journals KESIAPAN UJI KOMPETENSI PROGRAM OTOMOTIF DI LEMBAGA KURSUS DAN PELATIHAN (LKP) YOGYAKARTA

TAMAN VOKASI ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samsul Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
High Category ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Competency Tests ◽  
And Training ◽  
Process Product ◽  
Training Institute

This study aimed to evaluate the readiness of the competency-tests in course and training institutes for automotive programs in Yogyakarta in terms of (1) the institutes’ support, (2) the readiness of the infrastructure and facilities, (3) readiness of the curriculum documents, (4) the learning of plann, (5) the implementation of learn, (6) the learning assessment, and (7) the achievement of the competency-tests. This study was an evaluation study using quantitative approach. The evaluation model was the CIPP (context, input, process, product) by Stufflebeam. The study population consisted of institutes managers, instructures and students at the two course and training institute for automotive programs in Yogyakarta registered and having Nomor Induk Lembaga Kursus (NILEK). The data were analyzed using the descriptive statistic analysis techniques with the SPSS 17 program. The results of the study show that (1) the institutes’ support is in a middle category, (2) the readiness of the infrastructure and facilities is in high category, (3) readiness of the curriculum documents is in a high category; (4) the learning of planis in a high category, (5) the implementation of learn is in a high category, (6) the learning assessment is in a high category, and (7) the achievement of the competency-test is in a middle category.

scholarly journals (Digital) Design-Build Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Colopy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Design Skills ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Modeling Representation

Architectural education is often held up as an exemplar of project-based learning. Perhaps no discipline devotes as much curricular time to the development of a hypothetical project as is found in the design studio model prevalent in US architecture schools. Whether the emphasis is placed on more ‘classical’ design skills—be they typological, tectonic, or aesthetic—or on more ‘socio-political or eco-cultural aims,’ studios generally include the skills and values we deem instrumental to practice.1 The vast majority of such studios, therefore, emphasize the production of drawings, images and models of buildings, i.e., representation.2 This is not altogether surprising, as these are, by definition, the instruments of p ractice.3 But the emphasis on drawings and models also reflects the comfortable and now long-held disciplinary position that demarcates representation as the distinct privilege and fundamental role of the architect in the built environment. That position, however, continues to pose three fundamental and pedagogical challenges for the discipline. First, architectural education—to the degree that it attempts both to simulate and define practice—struggles to model the kind of feedback that occurs only during construction which can serve as an important check on the fidelity and efficacy of representation in its instrumental mode. Consequently, design research undertaken in this context may also tend to privilege instrumentation (representation) over effect (building), reliant on the conventions of construction or outside expertise for technical knowledge. This cycle further distances the process of building from our disciplinary domain, limiting our capacity to effect innovation in the built world.4 Second, and in quite similar fashion, the design studio struggles to provide the kind of social perspective and public reception, i.e., subjective political constraints, that are integral to the act of building. Instead, we approximate such constraints with a raft of disciplinary experts—faculty and visiting critics—whose priorities and interests seldom reflect the broad constituency of the built environment. The third challenge, and a quite different one, is that the distinction between representation and construction is collapsing as a result of technological change. In general terms, drawing is giving way to modeling, representation giving way to simulation. Drawings are increasingly vestigial outputs from higher-order organizations of information. Representation, yes, but a subordinate mode that remains open to modification, increasingly intelligent in order to account for direct translation into material conditions, be they buildings or budgets.

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