Towards Inter-Subject Project-Based Learning in Programming-Related Courses at Computer Science Studies

Linares-Pellicer, Jordi; Orta-Lopez, Jorge; Salavert-Torres, José; Segura-Flor, María José; Silvestre-Cerdà, Joan Albert; Sanchís, Raquel

doi:10.21125/edulearn.2020.1075

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“…-Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering Degree 1 Product design project -Computer Engineering Degree 2 Programming and data structures and algorithms project [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

Project-Based Learning Applied in the Pandemic Scenario. Case Study: Fluid-Mechanical Engineering

Sánchez¹,

Jiménez²,

Sanchís³

2021

ICERI2021 Proceedings

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The pandemic situation due to SARS-Cov-2 obligates to adapt the learning processes in different academic levels. Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) had to deal with this challenge, where the learning process changed from a face-to-face way to a non-face learning model when the confinement began in March 2020. This caused the need to adapt the teaching process, methods and materials from in-person classes to virtual ones. This contribution shows the adaptation process to face the problems caused by the pandemic and related to the non-face-to-face education through an example in a case study, particularly in the subject called Fluid-Mechanics Engineering. This subject is taught in the third year of the mechanical engineering degree at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (Campus of Alcoy). The students enrolled in this subject followed two different teaching procedures and the present research shows how the planning of the subject was adapted when the pandemic situation arose, the different activities developed to adjust to this new context as well as the perception of the students about such an adaptation through the development of an online survey.

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“…-Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering Degree 1 Product design project -Computer Engineering Degree 2 Programming and data structures and algorithms project [6].…”

Section: Pbl Innovation and Educational Improvement Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Project-Based Learning Applied in the Pandemic Scenario. Case Study: Fluid-Mechanical Engineering

Sánchez¹,

Jiménez²,

Sanchís³

2021

ICERI2021 Proceedings

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“…Each PBL model involves a different number of subjects, and hence, each one presents a particular casuistry. Readers may find additional information of each PBL model in the following references: PBL Model 2 [5], PBL Model 3 [6], PBL Model 4 [5], PBL Model 5 [7], PBL Model 6 [8][9], PBL Model 7 [10], PBL Model 8 [11], PBL Model 9 [12], and PBL Model 10 [13]. This IEPI has a duration of two academic years and involves more than 55 subjects, 65 lecturers and 700 students.…”

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confidence: 99%

Definition of a Coordinated Project-Based Learning Teaching Guide at Computer Science Studies

Izquierdo-Domenech¹,

Jordán²,

Linares-Pellicer³

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ICERI2021 Proceedings

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The well-known active methodology of Project-Based Learning (PBL) is being used more and more at different educational levels due to a large number of advantages it presents. For example, PBL has demonstrated that it increases students' motivation, develops their autonomy and capacity for selfcriticism, reinforces the ability to exchange ideas and collaborate, and promotes creativity, among other advantages. Due to these benefits, several educational institutions are introducing the PBL methodology in their teaching-learning processes.The implementation phase of this type of methodology should be planned, managed, and carried out carefully, considering several aspects. One of utmost importance is collecting and registering all the critical information related to the contents, materials and activities of the subjects participating in the collaborative project through the PBL methodology. In this sense, the objective of this paper is to propose the definition of a coordinated PBL Teaching Guide that includes all this relevant information; containing, mainly: (i) PBL Project description; (ii) recommended previous knowledge; (iii) learning objectives and outcomes; (iv) PBL model milestones; (v) PBL model planning; (vi) evaluation; and (vii) bibliography. Furthermore, this proposal will define the formal guidelines for students and lecturers to define and frame all the related aspects to carry out the proposed PBL model.The definition of the PBL Teaching Guide will be based on a case study that involves the following two subjects from the Computer Engineering Degree that are taught at the Escola Politècnica Superior d'Alcoi (EPSA) -Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV): "Programming" and "Data Structures and Algorithms". This proposal has been developed in the context of an innovation and educational improvement project applied in the EPSA during the last two years, covering five degrees, 55 subjects, and more than 10 different PBL models.

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“…The Campus of Alcoy has launched an 'Institutional Educational Innovation and Improvement Project' (PIME) with the aim of implementing methodologies that promote active students' learning, through the incorporation of PBL in subjects of its Bachelors' degrees. Some of the PBL models defined within the frame of this PIME can be found in [7][8][9][10]. One of these degrees is Chemical Engineering whose main objective is to train professionals capable of designing, building, starting up and managing equipment and facilities in industries where there are chemical processes.…”

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Project-Based Learning as a Coordination Methodology Between Subjects in a Chemical Engineering Degree

Alcaina¹,

Cardona²,

Domínguez-Candela³

et al. 2021

INTED Proceedings

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An important issue in any academic degree is to develop a high level of vertical/horizontal coordination between the different subjects taught along the four courses. This activity takes into account the coordination of the contents and methodologies that the teachers teach and the students acquire, the timing when the students learn them and the homework/exams that they do. As a result, both teachers and students gain an overall view of the degree and the teaching-learning process improves.According to this idea, the teachers of the Chemical Engineering degree at Campus of Alcoy are participating in an Educational Innovation and Improvement Project (PIME) for applying the projectbased learning (PBL) methodology to the design of an adsorption system for the elimination of dyes in wastewater from the textile industry. This work is scheduled along the four courses and is distributed between some of the core subjects that the students attend. The adsorption column design is partially solved in each subject and the results obtained in one subject are used in the following. As a result, the project is completed sequentially throughout the degree applying a methodology based on teamwork.This paper shows the activities proposed in different subjects, their timing and assessments during four courses. These activities include laboratory work for obtaining adsorption equilibrium and adsorption kinetics experimental data together with column dynamic performance. Other activities belong to the modelling and simulation domain for establishing the mathematical equations corresponding to the different phenomena linked to adsorption. Also, there are activities focused on experimental data treatment for estimating the parameters characterizing the adsorption isotherms or mass transfer coefficients. Finally, other activities are devoted to the column design and control, cost estimation, and oral/writing communication of the work done by the students.

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Towards Inter-Subject Project-Based Learning in Programming-Related Courses at Computer Science Studies

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Project-Based Learning Applied in the Pandemic Scenario. Case Study: Fluid-Mechanical Engineering

Project-Based Learning Applied in the Pandemic Scenario. Case Study: Fluid-Mechanical Engineering

Definition of a Coordinated Project-Based Learning Teaching Guide at Computer Science Studies

Project-Based Learning as a Coordination Methodology Between Subjects in a Chemical Engineering Degree

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