CHOOSE YOUR OWN TECHNICAL ADVENTURE: AN INCREASED ENGAGEMENT IN THE ENGINEERING CLASSROOM THROUGH PRESENTATIONS INFLUENCED BY STUDENT DECISIONS
CHOOSE YOUR OWN TECHNICAL ADVENTURE: AN INCREASED ENGAGEMENT IN THE ENGINEERING CLASSROOM THROUGH PRESENTATIONS INFLUENCED BY STUDENT DECISIONS

Summary/Abstract: The engineering curriculum is often quite loaded and for this reason the presentations in the classroom are dense and difficult to follow for students. The teacher has the difficult task of creating a balance between the accelerated presentation of all the necessary information and maintaining an adequate level of interactivity of the presentation. But it is not always important to go through the entire collection of information, as well as to understand a small set of fundamental ideas and, more importantly, to awaken the students' interest in the exposed topic. In order to achieve these two objectives, a presentation framework must be created that contains the essential elements and the rest of the information can be presented according to the interest shown by the students towards a certain topic or another. The article aims to present a methodology for such a teaching method in which students vote in real time (during the course, electronic vote through e-learning platform) what level of detail they want for each section of the presentation and which case examples are relevant or not for them. In this way a high level of student engagement is maintained during the course and the information is provided interactively to the participants. The electronic vote of the students will be realized through a plugin of the Moodle platform and will dictate the course of the oral presentation of the professor. The validation of the method will be done by analyzing the results of the final examination and by interviewing the students participating in the interactive course.

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