Abstract-Engineering education today is undergoing unprecedented array of challenges including maintaining student engagement during the lecture and throughout the semester. Fostering engineering student engagement in the class room has become a challenging task for engineering educators. In this paper, the authors propose the use of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) to maintain student engagement throughout each lecture and the use of course Learner Agent Object (LAO) portfolio to maintain student engagement in the course throughout the semester.
Abstract-Research suggests that an increase in learner mobility across formal and informal jurisdictions is a positive response to an integrated global economy and workforce. To facilitate ebbs and flows of maintaining a mobile global workforce, the literature suggests that engineering education should promote methodology and learning mechanisms that personalize accountability of learners' content knowledge across jurisdictions. In addition, data from the literature suggests that the cyber-learning mechanism for supporting mobility generates massive amounts of data which when refined could inform engineering educators in their response to an increasingly mobile workforce. This paper reviews data from a pilot study of a TechnologyEnhanced Autonomous Learning Environment (TEALE). TEALE is a framework for mobile learning environments that afford accountability of personalized evidence-based content across learning jurisdictions.Prelimary data from this third pilot report suggests that TEALE promotes accountability of content knowledge across learning jurisdictions: both among formal disciplines in the academy, as well as between the academy, informal learning and workplace requirements. However, the data also suggests that seamless mobility across these academic and social jurisdictions involves issues far beyond technology. These issues, which include adjudicating relevance and value among academic cultures, incentives for motivation, authority and autonomy should be accounted for when using TEALE. Attention to these issues could prevent engineering educators from viewing potential opportunities for inter-jurisdictional collaborations as encroachments and avert the specter of unintended social-dramas.
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