Making Connections: A Theory of Synergistic Learning in Engineering

这个工程教育研究项目将调查协同学习，即学生将学习的不同方面整合成一个连贯整体的过程。这项工作将通过乔治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？合成和设计工作室？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将学习理论与工程教育联系起来的元理论中。特别是该项目试图理解？啊哈! ?当各种各样的知识碎片形成的时候。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整个四年课程中所参加的综合和设计工作室之间的紧密联系之上。年代的课程。

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.