ERIC Number: EJ1430419
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jul
Pages: 5
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Moving from Pedagogy to Andragogy in Biomedical Engineering Design: Strategies for Lab-at-Home and Distance Learning
Biomedical Engineering Education, v1 n2 p301-305 2021
Engineering design courses are particularly challenging to deliver in online or distance modalities because of the hands-on, collaborative nature of the design process and the need for physical resources and work spaces. In this work, we describe how we rapidly transformed two design courses in the middle two years of the biomedical engineering (BME) program to an online format during the 2019 coronavirus pandemic. In addition to time and safety constraints, we identified access to design spaces with biochemistry, computing, electronic, computing, and manufacturing tools, and team-based learning as major challenges to distance learning in BME design courses. To this end, we mapped and translated various course and design activities to an online environment using a combination of customized at-home laboratory kits and distributed team structures. Drawing upon our pilot experience as well as principles from online and adult learning theories, we offer an overview of strategies to retain hands-on and team-based activities and rapidly implement BME design courses in online or distance modalities.
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Drafting, Design, Biomedicine, Andragogy, Instruction, Teaching Methods, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Barriers, Learning Activities, Online Courses, Experiential Learning, Laboratory Procedures, Learning Modules, Family School Relationship, School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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