Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2024)
This full research paper aims to investigate methods for systematically identifying core tasks within undergraduate engineering work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities, such as internships and co-ops. It achieves this by automatically analyzing WIL opportunities using transformer models. A data…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2024)
This research paper addresses the complexity of improving STEM education and mathematics achievement of indigenous students, better known as Orang Asli, in primary schools in Johor, Malaysia. The study highlights the educational disparities of the Orang Asli community and emphasizes the need for cul…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2023)
Manufacturers have constantly had to adapt to new challenges to stay productive and economically viable. Currently, they are having to face a revolution in technology in the digital age that requires agile responses to new challenges. Key policy and industry reports predict that there will be a skil…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2023)
Equality of access to higher education is a priority for governments the world over. For example, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal relating to Quality Education includes a target to 'ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2023)
This work represents a work-in-progress study on how dispositions are essential to the workplace. Recent computing curricular reports have heralded the importance of moving from knowledge-based to competency-based learning. However, dispositions, as with skills and knowledge, are a crucial component…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2022)
This paper outlines the essential components of developing an introductory course in Engineering Design for the first year, fi rst semester students at Thompson Rivers University (TRU). The course design accounts for the teaching context, stakeholder interests, and Canadian Engineering Accreditation…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2022)
This Practice Work-in-Progress paper presents a work-based undergraduate degree program in Software Engineering, designed in consultation with industry. Work-based learning is often seen as a means of ensuring university graduates are equipped with the skills and knowledge required to succeed in the…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2021)
This Research Full Paper presents work which links a consideration of the concept of context with that of learning competency and that of educational authenticity in STEM subjects. The word 'context' is very familiar in both everyday language and in educational settings. However, because of its ubiq…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2020)
Work-based learning is a teaching and learning method which requires students to go through practical training. In work-based learning, also employers are responsible for teaching as well as evaluation of the students. Students learn theory at the university and apply these academic and technical sk…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2020)
This paper explores the potential for new work-based apprenticeship degrees to encourage more women into computing degrees and the IT sector. In the UK, women are currently under-represented on computing courses. Meanwhile the IT industry requires more computing graduates, in general, and specifical…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2019)
This research to practice category full paper provides a survey of how Internet of Things (IoT) devices have made inroads in diverse commercial industries and how these devices have been implemented in pre- and post-secondary classrooms in the past, their current state in educational settings, and s…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2019)
This Research Full paper presents a systematic analysis. The objective of this work is to identify the educational context in which u-Learning was applied, as well as to evaluate which technologies are used to analyze the learning process in the period from 2012 to 2019. The quantitative analysis of…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2017)
The attempt to embed Authenticity within the learning process in higher education has been a driving principle within many pedagogical approaches to Higher Education developed over the past three decades. The desire to allow students to learn in a manner that closely resembles the way in which exper…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2016)
Currently, the engineering education system is India is undergoing a massive overhaul due to the adaptation of outcome-based education across the country by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) which is responsible for improving the quality of technical education. Maharashtra State Board of Tec…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2015)
InnoEscuela is more than a learning experience, a programmed methodology to implement courses related to Technology and Computing which follows an innovative way of teaching. The methodology focuses on Project-based learning and team work. Students organize themselves in teams which are called innov…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2015)
According to Federal Council of Engineering, in Brazil the Engineers deficit is estimated at about 20,000 per year on several areas of engineering. Among other factors, one of the causes of this deficit is the high failure rate in the disciplines within the technical area which causes students to ta…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2015)
Education invariably aims at developing competencies, technical as well as non-technical ones. As a consequence, there is also a need for methods that can be used to assess the quality of education faithfully. One possible approach is an assessment of whether intended learning outcomes are achieved,…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2013)
This paper describes the current influence of the remote laboratory on practical learning aspects of secondary sector of education. The key challenges faced by the teaching of science include insufficient hands-on laboratory usage in classrooms. The main objective of the paper is to present learning…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2013)
In India, unlike the Western world, the universities have several engineering institutes affiliated to them that are geographically spread across large provinces. Gujarat Technological University (GTU) is one such example, that caters to the technical education needs of the state of Gujarat (size of…
Published:Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
(2010)
This paper reports the deployment of a group of students to several SME in an Industrial Attachment Program (IAP). The students were all engineering students who have previously attended courses conducted by Cisco Networking Academy and have passed certain computer networking certifications. The par…
