TY - GEN
T1 - Are they simply interested? An exploration of engineering students' most favorite classes
AU - Yang, Dazhi
AU - Nadelson, Louis S.
AU - Hardy, Kimberly
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/12/2
Y1 - 2015/12/2
N2 - This work in progress explores how instructional strategies and technology use were related to engineering students' affinity toward a class. Instructional strategies, such as contextual problem-based learning and teamwork, can increase student interest in a topic. Additionally using different technological tools affects student interest and learning. However, instructors can be challenged to encourage and maintain student interest, which makes this study worthwhile to pursue. To our knowledge, there is a dearth of engineering education research exploring the relationship between instructional technology, instructional strategies, and engineering students' course favoritism. This study aims to fill this gap by identifying effective instructional strategies and the use of educational technology that helped make a class engineering students' favorite.
AB - This work in progress explores how instructional strategies and technology use were related to engineering students' affinity toward a class. Instructional strategies, such as contextual problem-based learning and teamwork, can increase student interest in a topic. Additionally using different technological tools affects student interest and learning. However, instructors can be challenged to encourage and maintain student interest, which makes this study worthwhile to pursue. To our knowledge, there is a dearth of engineering education research exploring the relationship between instructional technology, instructional strategies, and engineering students' course favoritism. This study aims to fill this gap by identifying effective instructional strategies and the use of educational technology that helped make a class engineering students' favorite.
KW - course favoritism
KW - eductional technology
KW - instructional strategies
KW - student interest
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84960347642
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/edtech_facpubs/133
U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2015.7344364
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2015.7344364
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
BT - 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2015
Y2 - 21 October 2015 through 24 October 2015
ER -