Abstract
One of the barriers for engaging engineering faculty in the scholarship of learning and teaching is the challenge of learning a new vocabulary. Becoming fuent in engineering education requires the acquisition of new concepts and ideas that are ofen expressed in unfamiliar terms. Feedback control is a technical feld common to a range of engineering disciplines that can be used as a model to help bridge the conceptual gap between traditional engineering and engineering education. Many of the key elements of engineering education can be represented by the elements of a feedback control system, with their behaviour in a learning environment paralleling their behaviour in a process control context. The feedback control model can be used to explain: the importance of timely feedback to students, the signifcance of assessment and evaluation in the learning process, the impact of learning styles upon learning outcomes, and the need for student-centered teaching approaches. While both felds have complexities that cannot be captured by simple models, the basic ideas can be explained simply. Feedback control metaphors make the basics accessible to a wider audience of engineering faculty.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Publikationsdato | 2010 |
ISBN (Trykt) | 9781424462599 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2010 |
Udgivet eksternt | Ja |
Emneord
- Feedback control
- Formative assessment
- Program evaluation
- Summative assessment