工程教育课程创新中能动型学习的应用(英文)

Curriculum Innovation in Engineering Education Through Active Learning

近年来,大多数欧洲理工大学在课程中使用能动型学习。在运用能动型学习方法论来促进创新的学校中,代尔福特理工大学名列前茅。能动型学习的概念并未被准确定义:在有些场合它被用作“基于问题的学习”或者“通过行动学习”的同义语;在其他场合中,教育方法并未具体确定,能真正地激发学习者的能动性的学习被看成是能动型学习。这篇论文将呈现一个能动型学习的定义轮廓,突出讨论一些具体案例,并探讨能动型学习对工程学教育改革的作用。

Presently, most European Universities of Technology apply one or another variety of active learning method in their curricula. Delft University of Technology is foremost among the schools who use Active Learning methodologies as a means to promote innovation. In the mean time the concept of Active Learning is not very clearly defined. In some instances it is used as a synonym of concepts llke “problem based learning” or “learning by doing”. In other instances the choice of didactic method is left open and a didactic method is considered to be activating depending on the degree to which it succeeds in exciting study behaviour. This paper will present a brief outline of the concept of Active Learning, highlighting a variety of different formats. Next, the relation of Active Leaming to innovation in engineering education will be discussed.