Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2020)
The Vocational Education and Training (VET) curriculum aims to provide students with the necessary skills to make them employable and successful in their specialties. Therefore, an increasing number of VET curricula are employing various resources to equip students with 21st century skills such as c…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2019)
In this study, observations of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) in mechanical engineering companies are carried out. A Learning Management System (LMS) had been developed for the assistance in solving typical task structures, that are used for a period of three and a half years in the app…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2019)
In this paper we present a new initiative to promote collaborative learning through industry partnered, interdisciplinary, student and user centred projects. This was achieved through the development of rehabilitation devices augmented with gamified software. Today development of software systems of…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2019)
The growing pace of innovation in terms of products and business models, forces organizations to seek innovative engineers who can build for the future, not just through a technical job, but through a wide range of management roles in any industry, the government and even academia. Engineering manag…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2019)
Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) has been used in the industry for many years. This paper investigates some of the advantages of adopting HIL methodology in teaching and training of students in engineering education. HIL can play an important role in teaching since it contributes to fill the holes in engi…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2018)
Teaching programming novices in secondary education is often described as a challenge, because student groups are often quite heterogeneous. Teachers react with special methods e.g. with individualized teaching, group work or project-based learning. As such a method for computer science education, t…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2017)
Universities around the world are shifting to a learning style which combines theory and practice. Work Integrated learning (WIL) is therefore an attempt to explore an academic avenue which employs an educational approach that could enable better alignment of academic and work place practices for th…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2017)
The apprenticeship in the dual system of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Germany takes place at companies with training departments and vocational schools. For the needs of requirements analysis for workplace-integrated mobile learning designs and the development of a context-sensitive mo…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2017)
The university-enterprise connection has been growing in importance over the years. Also, the supervised internship, fulfilled during undergraduate course, is mandatory in several careers, according to Brazilian law, and is considered one of the forms of cooperation between universities and enterpri…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2017)
Competency-based learning (CBL) has gained a lot of momentum lately but rarely has it been implemented fully in e-learning environment as a central, driving force for learning. In 2010 ISC e-learning environment was switched from classical topic-based learning to CBL. Two years into the new approach…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2017)
Students' preparation for professional career needs to consider practical placements in the industry workplace. Paper reports project based learning where interdisciplinary team of students designed educational tablet games in university-industry environment. Students were involved in full product d…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2016)
The purpose of this study is to analyze learning effectiveness when students are in training to review the design of concrete structures. Two different course delivery methods for vocational engineering students are compared. The first delivery method begins with a traditional instructional approach…
Published:IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
(2012)
Adults have an active role in their own learning and training. Non formal and informal education is the cornerstone for a lifelong learning and career development. But related knowledge and skills, derived from several years of professional experience, personal development, or continuous vocational …
