Project Based Learning on Engineering: Foundations, Applications and Challenges

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Series: Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
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There is a worldwide interest today in improving the quality of education. Improving teaching for a more professional world is necessary; in fact, the application of the European Higher Education has encouraged the use of methodologies increasing learning activity in recent years. One of the most popular active learning methods is project-based learning or problems based learning (PBL). Despite this methodology being developed more than 30 years ago, it has shown to be one of the most suitable methodologies for obtaining meaningful learning.

It also has the advantage of being combined with other modern learning techniques such as e-learning and m-learning. The relevance of this technique and a collaboration of personal experience have led to this book. This book contains three distinct parts. The first part will contain the basics of this PBL and a review of the literature of the last years. The second part will contain practical examples of successful implementations of PBL conducted in different universities. In the last part, novel implementations of PBL combined with different methods of distance learning will be exposed, ie PBL combined with e-learning, PBL combined with synchronous classroom and PBL combined with m-learning. Finally, in the last chapter, the conclusions of this research are outlined. (Imprint: Nova)

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction to Project Based Learning on Engineering
(S. Román, B. Ledesma, A. Álvarez, F. Zamora, E. Sabio, Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain, and others)

Foundations on PBL
(Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés, Rafael M. Luque-Baena, Francisco Luna, Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos y Telemáticos
Centro Universitario de Mérida, Universidad de Extremadura, Merida, Spain)

Problem Design, Implementation and Results of PBL in Telematics Engineering
(Javier Carmona-Murillo, Miguel A. Martín-Tardío and Juan Arias-Masa, Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos y Telemáticos
Centro Universitario de Mérida, Universidad de Extremadura, Merida, Spain)

PBL on Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
(Juan C. González-Macias, Pedro J. Pardo; Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés, Department of Computing and Telematics System Engineering. Universidad de Extremadura, Centro Universitario de Mérida. Av. Santa Teresa de Jornet, Merida, Spain)

PBL and Group Tutoring
(A.J. Lozano-Guerrero, A.M. Martínez-González and A. Díaz-Morcillo, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Plaza del Hospital, Cartagena, Murcia)

Enhancing e-learning: Problem Based Learning Supported in Moodle
(J. Enrique Agudo, Mercedes Rico, Héctor Sánchez, Juan Manuel Vaca, Centro Universitario de Mérida, Universidad de Extremadura.
Av. Santa Teresa de Jornet, Mérida, Spain)

Problem-Based E-Learning (PBL) using Synchronous Virtual Teaching
(Juan Arias-Masa and Rafael Martín-Espada, Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Informáticos y Telemáticos Centro Universitario de Mérida, Universidad de Extremadura, Av. Santa Teresa de Jornet, Merida, Spain)

PBL with M-Learning
(Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés, Pablo Padilla de la Torre and José Luis Padilla de la Torre, Department of Computing and Telematics System Engineering. Universidad de Extremadura. Centro Universitario de Mérida. Av. Santa Teresa de Jornet, Mérida, Spain, and others)

Conclusions, Implications and Future
(Pedro J. Pardo, Juan F. Valenzuela-Valdés, Centro Universitario de Mérida, Universidad de Extremadura, Av. Santa Teresa de Jornet, Mérida, Spain)

Index

Audience: All teachers who teach in engineering universities around the world.

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