Use of ICT to implement an active learning strategy in soil mechanics courses at undergraduate level
Joaquim Macedo,
Paulo Oliveira
Abstract:Nowadays engineers are constantly dealing with more complex problems, uncertainty, incomplete data, and demands of customers, governments, environmentalists, and public. This requires technical skills as well as skills in human relations. So, during their academic background it is necessary to incorporate more skills, social and technological, into their base knowledge. This can be accomplished introducing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Higher Education (HE). Several studies show that the … Show more
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