ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Evaluation of Student Learning

Outcomes Due to Self-Guided

Engineering Analysis of Surroundings

Devin R. BergEngineering & Technology Department

University of Wisconsin – Stout16 June 2014

Twitter: @devinberg, #ASEEAnnual, #M453

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Slides available online!

https://speakerdeck.com/devinberg

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

How do I relate the stuff in class to my

everyday life?

http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfadd/1350/12Statics/ToC.html

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Inquiry-based learning enables greater

concept retention.

http://www.uvm.edu/~slathem/inquiry/inquiry21st.htm

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Ask them to do this directly!

http://www.trilliumdell.com/timber-frame-trusses-and-accents.html

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

An Initial Pilot Study

The goal of the pilot study was to establish a baseline for student participation in an inquiry-based assignment.

• Learned of the need for incentive to participate.

• Also, the benefits of having a few active students to drive the rest of the class.

[See: PDF]

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Basic instructions were given as a

guide but were open to interpretation.

Submit one original post per week (photo/video + text) giving an example of something that demonstrates the concepts discussed in that week’s classes.

D2L Twitter

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Twitter Logistics

• Tweets were collected under the course hashtag (#mech293).

• Archived using TAGSv5 (http://goo.gl/HD6KJ1)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Student submissions showed variety.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Student submissions showed variety.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Student submissions showed variety.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Several students included additional

analysis and annotation.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Several students included additional

analysis and annotation.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Several students included additional

analysis and annotation.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Twitter submissions over time.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Twitter submissions over time.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Student performance between control

and treatment groups was similar.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Student performance between control

and treatment groups was similar.

Control Treatment

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

The submissions collected support

further use of this form of assignment.

Students: - enjoyed the assignment

- required a different way of thinking

- posted study aids/resources as well

Instructor: - helpful when gaging student understanding

- more engaging discussion

- platform for posting relevant links

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Subsequent use of the Twitter

assignments is ongoing.

A smaller student cohort makes it more difficult to keep the conversation flowing.

Need to explore new methods of engaging students in this way. Possibly through student partnerships or organized discussion topics/schedules.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the UW-Stout students in the Spring 2013 and Fall 2013 semester sections of MECH 290 and MECH 293 for their photographic and textual contributions.

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Inspiring Innovation Learn more at www.uwstout.edu/et/

Thank you for your time!