Influence of diversity in lectures on the students’ learning process and on their perspectives about renewable energies in an international context - The students’ view

Gutiérrez, Mónica; Ghotge, Rishabh; Siemens, Annika; Blake-Rath, Robyn; Pätz, Cordelia

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2018.07.064

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“…The importance of collaboration with industry was highlighted by Lucas et al [10], as well as the need for sustained efforts towards deploying quality standards in RE education and training, which ought to be developed in close cooperation with the industry. Further to industry cooperation, Gutiérrez et al [30] highlight diversity's potential as an enhancement factor for the pedagogies in renewable energy education, and notes that a diverse structure in the study program can widen the options for the students' career paths. Wider career paths increase the opportunity for links with industry beyond graduation, further linking renewable energy education with industry and work.…”

Section: Renewable Energy Education Specificmentioning

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Benchmarking a Sustainable Energy Engineering Undergraduate Degree against Curriculum Frameworks and Pedagogy Standards from Industry and Academia

2020

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There is an urgent need for educational institutions to produce graduates with appropriate skills to meet the growing global demand for professionals in the sustainable energy industry. For universities to stay at the forefront of meeting this global demand from industry, universities need to ensure their curricula and pedagogies stay relevant. The use of benchmarking is a key means of achieving this and ensuring any gap between university curricula and the practical needs of industry is minimized. The aim of this paper is to present an approach to benchmarking a sustainable energy engineering undergraduate degree with respect to curriculum frameworks recommended by industry and pedagogy standards required and recommended by academia and education research. The method uses the Murdoch University renewable energy engineering degree major as a case study. The results show that the learning outcomes of the renewable energy engineering units, in general, align well with the recommended learning outcomes for a complete sustainable energy degree, as prescribed by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. In addition, assessment task and marking criteria for the capstone unit of the major were at Australian Universities’ standard. A similar approach to benchmarking can be adopted by developers of new or existing sustainable energy engineering degrees in order to align with curriculum frameworks and pedagogy standards required by industry and academic peers.

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Section: Renewable Energy Education Specificmentioning

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Benchmarking a Sustainable Energy Engineering Undergraduate Degree against Curriculum Frameworks and Pedagogy Standards from Industry and Academia

2020

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“…The growth and importance of renewable energy generation, fundamentally solar (Ott, Broman, Blum, 2018), wind and marine (Lekube, Garrido, Garrido, Otaola & Maseda, 2018), are motivated by the need to overcome the negative impact on the environment associated with fossil fuels. This fact has led to an increased interest in these technological areas and to the importance of the required engineering education in these fields (Gutiérrez, Ghotge, Siemens, Blake-Rath & Pätz, 2018).…”

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Online Learning Questionnaires Based on Renewable Energy Research Equipment

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López²,

Egiguren³

et al. 2021

Education and New Developments 2021

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This paper resumes the main ideas to develop different sets of questionnaires based on renewable energy research equipment to improve online learning in engineering education. These educational activities, on the one hand, promote the connection between technological and education environments and, on the other hand, improve the motivation for studying theoretical and practical issues. The implementation of the proposed teaching and learning tasks will contribute to integrate students with different motivation and attitudes since the use of the close physical equipment for questionnaires development has an evident educational benefit when using it as a study model. The evolution of technological environments to educational units involves a functional Disassembly/Analyze/Assembly conversion to different modules adapted to specific subjects, the link with the theoretical knowledge, and finally, the questionnaire construction. The combination proposed offers the following positive results in master or grade studies: the effectiveness of competences training is improved, the students experimental work progresses significantly and the students’ motivation for better theory comprehension is more intensively developed. The use of these kind of questionnaires as educational tools is not new and their advantages are well known: the quick feedback results and the systematic data collection to support the educational proposal effectiveness, among others. Nevertheless, this tool has become a necessity with the massive use of online education. In summary, promoting the evolution of engineering education to online techniques and the use of renewable energy research equipment to promote the students’ vision on social necessities are two examples of educational goals stated in this paper.

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The failure to decarbonize the global energy education system: Carbon lock-in and stranded skill sets

Vakulchuk,

Overland

2024

Energy Research & Social Science

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Influence of diversity in lectures on the students’ learning process and on their perspectives about renewable energies in an international context - The students’ view

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Benchmarking a Sustainable Energy Engineering Undergraduate Degree against Curriculum Frameworks and Pedagogy Standards from Industry and Academia

Benchmarking a Sustainable Energy Engineering Undergraduate Degree against Curriculum Frameworks and Pedagogy Standards from Industry and Academia

Online Learning Questionnaires Based on Renewable Energy Research Equipment

The failure to decarbonize the global energy education system: Carbon lock-in and stranded skill sets

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