On Learning Objectives and Learning Activities to Foster Creativity in the Engineering Lab

Claudius Terkowsky () and Tobias Heartel
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Claudius Terkowsky: TU Dortmund University, Engineering Education Research Group, Center for Higher Education Dortmund
Tobias Heartel: TU Dortmund University, Engineering Education Research Group, Center for Higher Education Dortmund

A chapter in Engineering Education 4.0, 2016, pp 923-935 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Creativity involves coming up with something novel, something different. Up-to-date laboratory learning approaches in combination with inventive ICT can offer an immense variety of novel opportunities for experimentation and learning in the modes of creative inquiry. Fostering and encouraging creative laboratory learning in engineering education may not only animate what is learned but also includes the chance to tighten students’ understanding and creative self-efficacy. The presented conceptual framework proposes a learning space based on portable devices in combination with an e-portfolio system. The aligned teaching and learning approaches aim at facilitating and fostering creative laboratory learning in engineering education. To this end, this article features six different scaffolding tasks to design learning objectives and activities for fostering creativity in the lab. It illustrates how the proposed personal learning environments might enhance or substitute formal classroom activities and laboratory work in order to achieve sophisticated learning objectives.

Keywords: Creative Learning; Laboratory Learning; Online Labs; Personal Learning Environments; Mobile Learning; Engineering Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46916-4_75

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