Teaching global engineering in Canada,learning informality of the Global South

Globalisation has inspired a wide assortment of curricular initiatives within engineering education in the USA and Europe. This interest could be categorised in multiple directions – international exposure, service learning, or critical understanding and praxis. In Canada, however, there has been far less consideration for integrating globalisation within the engineering curriculum. The recent episode of reform initiated by the Canadian Board of Engineering Accreditation could usher in changes on this front. Situating the development of a course titled Development and Global Engineering within these broader conceptual and organisational impulses, this paper will illuminate a pathway towards understanding globalisation, especially within the Global South, through a comprehension of complexity and informality.     

Studying science and engineering learning in practice

A key goal of science and engineering education is to provide opportunities for people to access, interpret, and make use of science and engineering to address practical human needs. Most education research, however, focuses on how best to prepare students in schools to participate in forms of science and engineering practices that resemble those of disciplinary experts. In this paper, I argue that education research is needed that focuses on how people use science and engineering in social practices as part of collective efforts to transform cultural and economic production. Drawing on social practice theory, I argue that learning inheres in such activities, not only because people access and make use of science knowledge and develop repertoires for participating in science and engineering practices, but also because participation in such activities transforms the ways that people imagine themselves and expands their possibilities for action. Research can inform and support these efforts, both directly and indirectly, by giving an account of the conditions for science and engineering learning and by diagnosing inequities in access to science and engineering for addressing pressing human needs.     

电力电子器件课程的特点与讲授

电力电子器件的特性是电力电子器件课程的重点。在可控硅正常导通情况下,将单向可控硅控制极对地短路是实现可控硅关断的另一种方式的结论作为一个特殊的教学案例,通过实践教学中采用声光控延时开关电路原理的分析,说明了单向可控硅MCR100—6关断的特点,基于理论分析和实际电路测量数据两个方面证实了以上结论并不是实现可控硅关断的方式,此种教学方法收到良好的效果。     

Teaching and learning in kindergarten

Teaching and learning in kindergarten is related, on the one hand, to the principles, methods and forms of teachers＇ work that should optimally contribute to pre-school child development and learning, and on the other hand, to the issues of the developing their reasoning and other aspects of their personality. It is for this reason that the responsibility of kindergarten teachers, in view Kindergartens must strive to ensure quality teaching and of instruction and learning of young children, is huge. learning environment for very young children, which in addition fosters an atmosphere of pleasure and comfort. This paper aims to present the significance of instruction and learning of pre-school children today, in particular that within the institutionalised education （in kindergarten）. The author＇s points of interest were how instruction and learning of young children in kindergarten was perceived in the past and the contemporary view on modern instruction and learning ofpre-school children in kindergartens.     

Experience of cooperative learning in engineering

The objective of this work is to share the authors’ experience towards a different mode of teaching/learning method. Cooperative learning (Jigsaw) was employed on the University of Vigo's fourth-year engineering students. The results of the experience show that cooperative learning is quite a viable alternative to the classical way of lecturing at the university when the number of students is not too high. The authors’ observation indicates that students did not show a lot of interest towards the new learning style but their resistance changed once they began the activity. The Jigsaw method has proved to be a useful tool for improving the learning process so that students have the opportunity to participate actively in the learning activities.     

Engineering flexible teaching and learning in engineering education

The key challenges for achieving flexibility in flexible mode programmes in engineering and technology include: the integration of the explicit and implicit content in potentially disparate and isolated study modules across the whole programme curriculum; ensuring the validity and consistency of policies for granting students advanced standing based on recognition for prior learning and workplace experience; developing learning materials and experiences that cater for a wide and diverse audience, while at the same time offering relevance to the individual student in their own context; creating innovative communication environments that bring remote students into both the directed and the discursive discussion that are an important part of the learning process; and the financial and resourcing sustainability of the development, maintenance and delivery of high quality flexible mode engineering and technology study programmes.     

浅谈开展现代教育技术教学的几点做法

在阐述基于现代教育技术的学习环境的特点和功能的基础上，提出了多媒体技术的研究、普及培训、网络教学中的虚拟教学以及媒体资源库的建立与管理模式等几方面的内容，说明了现代教育技术中心开展教育技术的教学工作。     

信息技术教学中的人文渗透

由于信息技术的“容器人”效应以及信息技术教学中的情感交流弱化,导致信息技术的负面作用日趋显现,因此有必要在信息技术教学过程中渗透人文素质教育,其可实现的途径在于：弘扬信息技术魅力,渗透人文思想;充分挖掘教材内容,联系生活实例,促进学生的人文思辨;建立友好的师生关系,营造民主的课堂氛围;重视信息技术人文精神,鼓励探索和研究性学习。如此,方可达到良好的教学效果,提高学生的人文素养,促进学生全面、和谐、健康地发展。     

Encouraging the learning of hydraulic engineering subjects in agricultural engineering schools

Several methodological approaches to improve the understanding and motivation of students in Hydraulic Engineering courses have been adopted in the Agricultural Engineering School at Technical University of Madrid. During three years student's progress and satisfaction have been assessed by continuous monitoring and the use of ‘online’ and web tools in two undergraduate courses. Results from their application to encourage learning and communication skills in Hydraulic Engineering subjects are analysed and compared to the initial situation. Student's academic performance has improved since their application, but surveys made among students showed that not all the methodological proposals were perceived as beneficial. Their participation in the ‘online’, classroom and reading activities was low although they were well assessed.     

高职“电力电子器件与应用”项目课程教学改革

为了适应社会对高技术、高技能人才的需求,高职＂电力电子器件与应用＂引入项目课程教学,通过真实的应用性项目（模块）将理论知识与实践技能串联起来,以完成工作任务为主建立适合学生活动的教学方式,有利于提高学生学习的积极性,从而实现学生获得相应岗位应具备的职业能力和素质要求的教学目标。     

On activities and affordances for mobile learning

Across the articles in this special issue, there is a clear and important focus on how people learn through mobility, which allows them to move across contexts as they learn. This commentary considers ways mobile technologies can support learning with a focus on understanding the affordances to of the mobile technologies develop new learning practices that could not be accomplished without this technology. With this in mind, we return to the definition of mobile learning that suggests mobile learning is learning across multiple contexts, through social interaction, using personal electronic devices that can immediately capture information about, or provide information to the user. To explore how to implement this definition in truly powerful ways, we suggest explicitly unpacking this into its four component parts, so that we can explore and discuss the unique affordances of mobile learning: (1) multiple contexts, (2) social interactions, (3) content interactions, and (4), capturing information and providing information to users in real-time. We further suggest a 5th element, which is the synergies among these different dimensions. We conclude with the challenges in doing research in mobile learning environments and the need to understand both how and what people learn in such environments.     

Using learning styles theory in engineering education

Studies have shown that, while learning different concepts, people sometimes take different approaches (learning styles). Accordingly, their performance reflected differently in their academic studies. With the effect of globalisation to the educational environments, the influence of individual learning styles on educational performance is getting more significant. In this study, a learning style assessment tool was used to examine the relationship between students’ learning styles and their performance in engineering education programmes. At the beginning of the programme, 285 students’ learning styles were measured using a learning style assessment tool. Four years after the engineering education, their performance in the programme was compared with their individual learning styles. This study shows that most of the students are assimilators. Divergers and convergers follow the assimilators. The number of accommodators is very limited. The relationship between engineering students’ learning styles and their performance is found: assimilators and convergers performed better than the divergers and accommodators. The performance difference between assimilators and divergers is statistically significant. The results of this study show that the learning style theory is a potential tool for guiding the design and improvement of courses and helping students to improve their individual performance.     

论多媒体教学的特点及其在素质教育中的作用

作为现代教育技术的重要手段，多媒体教学给传统教学模式带来巨大的冲击，多媒体教学有课堂信息量大，节约教学时间，生动直观，可现实虚拟实验等特点，在素质教育中具有重要作用。     

高职信息技术课异步教学的探讨与实践

异步教学法以培养学生自学能力、创新能力为目标,具有"提优补差"的效果。结合高职院校学生及课程特点,在分析高职信息技术课教学存在问题的基础上,将异步教学法引入高职信息技术课堂教学,通过教学实验探索实施策略并对结果进行统计分析。     

多媒体技术与英语教学

本简要介绍了多媒体与多媒体技术的概念，并论证了利用多媒体技术，实现向现代化英语教学方式转化的可能性。     

关于《EDA技术》教学的尝试与思考

本文阐述了《EDA技术》在高职教育中的内容是以实用、够用为原则；方法是以实验为中心线索，让学生在实验中从模仿开始逐步学会FPGA／CPLD设计。     

Improving collaborative learning in online software engineering education

Team projects are commonplace in software engineering education. They address a key educational objective, provide students critical experience relevant to their future careers, allow instructors to set problems of greater scale and complexity than could be tackled individually, and are a vehicle for socially constructed learning. While all student teams experience challenges, those in fully online programmes must also deal with remote working, asynchronous coordination, and computer-mediated communications all of which contribute to greater social distance between team members. We have developed a facilitation framework to aid team collaboration and have demonstrated its efficacy, in prior research, with respect to team performance and outcomes. Those studies indicated, however, that despite experiencing improved project outcomes, students working in effective software engineering teams did not experience significantly improved individual achievement. To address this deficiency we implemented theoretically grounded refinements to the collaboration model based upon peer-tutoring research. Our results indicate a modest, but statistically significant (p?=?.08), improvement in individual achievement using this refined model.     

网络语音实验室条件下的教与学

从教学环境、学生和教师的角度,分析网络语音实验室条件下高校英语教学的优势与问题,并提出有必要对师生进行课程前期实验室使用和维护的培训;学生需要建立科学的网络学习观,培养个性学习策略和方法;教师应强化网络教学的教学形式、评价体系并适应角色转换。     

任务驱动在《现代电气控制技术》课程教学中的研究与实践

《现代电气控制技术》课程依据企业对电气控制技能人才的需求,打破传统的学科体系束缚,是基于真实工作任务的专业综合能力强的一门实践课程。该课程是以自动生产线为载体,将传统的继电器控制技术、PLC技术、传感器技术、变频器技术、伺服控制技术、触摸屏控制技术集于一体,重构、序化教学内容。采用任务驱动,教学做一体的教学模式,大大提高了学生的学习兴趣,让学生掌握基本的职业技能,提升学生的发展空间。     

多媒体及网络技术在化工原理教学中的开发与实践

本文介绍了开发多媒体软件所应用的相关软件及特点,阐述了多媒体、网络技术在课堂教学中的优点,通过实践证明,多媒体教学方式达到了提高教学效率和教学质量的目的,为教学改革开创了新局面。