Individualization in Engineering Design Education: Implementation of an Adaptive E-Learning Environment (Ade-Le)

Abstract

Well-educated engineers are key for successful engineering design in product development. Due to varying school education and technical backgrounds, the students have different prerequisites for the acquisition of competences. Subject of this paper is to show the methodical implementation of the prototype AdE-Le suited to the curriculum at Ruhr-University-Bochum and the open source learning platform Moodle. Aim is to evaluate the didactic potential to support engineering students with heterogeneous competence levels. The general needs and existing approaches for E-Learning environments as a means to individualize learning content in engineering design are discussed. Major aim is to reduce the linkage between the students' technical background and their exam success. AdE-Le as an exemplary application is developed based on the didactical concept of Constructive Alignment. Due to a harmonization of learning methods and contents in Engineering Design across the members of the Scientific Society for Product Development the results of this investigation can be transferred to other Universities.

Engineering design education at German universities: potential for a common basis to create personalized e-learning content

“…In this, the learning environment is adapted to the individual needs of the user, e.g., by identifying the level of knowledge through frequent assessments (Rey, 2009;Berger and Moser, 2020;Stoyanov and Kirschener, 2004). A prototype implementation for the subject area of fits, dimensions and tolerances is presented in Kossack and Bender (2023). Its use has already been shown to have a positive effect on the acquisition of professional competencies (Kossack et al, 2023a) and the homogenization of initial knowledge-heterogeneous groups (Kossack et al, 2023b).…”