Making Connections: A Theory of Synergistic Learning in Engineering

建立联系：工程协同学习理论

• 批准号: 1025190
• 负责人: Joachim Walther
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2015-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1025190&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Making; Connections; Theory; Synergistic; Learning

This engineering education research project will investigate synergistic learning, the processes by which students integrate disparate aspects of learning into a coherent whole. The work will be conducted through curriculum innovation over four years of an environmental engineering program at the University of Georgia. The main mechanism is establishing ?Synthesis and Design Studios? to integrate disparate knowledge from STEM, humanities, and social science courses. The project also seeks to understand the mechanisms of synergistic learning and integrating this understanding into a meta-theory that connects learning theory with engineering education. In particular the project seeks to understand the ?Ah Ha!? moments when various fragments of knowledge fall into place. The project builds on a strong link between engineering education research in the area of synergistic learning and pedagogical methods and the Synthesis and Design Studios students take for all four years of the program?s curriculum.

这个工程教育研究项目将研究协同学习，学生将学习的不同方面整合成一个连贯的整体的过程。 这项工作将通过格鲁吉亚大学环境工程项目四年的课程创新来进行。 主要机制是建立？合成与设计工作室整合来自STEM，人文和社会科学课程的不同知识。 该项目还试图了解协同学习的机制，并将这种理解整合到一个元理论中，将学习理论与工程教育联系起来。 特别是该项目旨在了解？啊哈！当各种知识碎片落入适当的位置时。 该项目建立在协同学习和教学方法领域的工程教育研究与学生在四年的课程中所需的合成和设计工作室之间的紧密联系之上。的课程。