Inclusion of research labs in Engineering as learning playgrounds

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dc.contributor.authorGarcia Gunning, Fatima C.
dc.contributor.editorSupple, Brionyen
dc.contributor.editorDelahunty, Tomen
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-05T09:47:05Z
dc.date.available2020-11-05T09:47:05Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractTraditional teaching practices in Ireland for “hard”-science subjects, such as Physics or Engineering, are still prevalently based on whiteboard content delivery, PowerPoint-based methods, and sometimes, within under-funded purposed-built teaching labs, leaving very little manoeuvre or willingness to incorporate student interaction, in addition to a strong focus on end of semester exam based assessment of learning. Very often any deviation from traditional methods of teaching and assessment are perceived as “dumbing down” the course. The proposal of this Lightning Talk is to show how enabling flexibility in the teaching environment, by incorporating either topical research discussions or bringing a high-tech research lab to a teaching module, can stimulate student engagement, curiosity, discovery and learning. Moreover, the talk will also contain a discussion on using different assessment techniques, such as consultation surveys and reports, where a richer picture of true understanding can be drafted, and compare outcomes between report-based and exam-based types of assessment, showing no signs of “dumbing down”.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationGarcia Gunning, F. C. (2019) 'Inclusion of research labs in Engineering as learning playgrounds', Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5-6 December, pp. 162-164. doi: 10.33178/LC.2019.32en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/LC.2019.32
dc.identifier.endpage164
dc.identifier.startpage162
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10703
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.publisherNational Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Educationen
dc.rights© 2019, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectStudent engagementen
dc.subjectCuriosityen
dc.subjectDiscoveryen
dc.subjectLearningen
dc.subjectAssessmenten
dc.subjectReport-based assessmenten
dc.subjectExam-based assessmenten
dc.subjectTopical research discussionen
dc.subjectHigh-tech research laben
dc.titleInclusion of research labs in Engineering as learning playgroundsen
dc.typeConference itemen
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