Emiel van Puffelen Leader Centre for Engineering

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Emiel van Puffelen Leader Centre for Engineering Education E-mail: emiel.vanpuffelen@wur.nl Designing blended engineering courses Changing Engineering Education Differences in engagement between students and need for learning that allows for differences in learning styles. Increased use of blended and online education causes new diversity and learning style issues. Rapidly changing world brings the need to engage students in diverse learning. Wageningen University Tackles these trends with outcomes-based teaching and engaging students within a rich setting of blended learning. Approach is part of the University Teaching Qualification Programme for lecturers and also a focus for education innovation projects. Resulting education programmes are rated as the best in the national surveys of the last twelve years. Education innovation projects on: www.4tu.nl/cee/en/research-innovation Design of Blended Courses Literature and Experience Start: well-constructed curriculum and properly formulated intended learning outcomes (ILOs). Four levels of ILOs Crawley, E.F., Malmqvist, J., Östlund, S., Brodeur, D.R. and Edström, K.,2014 ILOs: starting point for creating Teaching and Learning Activity’s (TLAs) and Assessment hopefully we all know: ILOs, TLAs and Assessment should be aligned Based on Biggs and Tang 2011 ILO TLAs Assessment Teaching and Learning Activity’s with supported processes (based on Laurillard 2012,2016) Combine TLAs! often a large part of the TLA overview is needed One ILO might require different types of TLAs and the course set of ILOs might require more. A workflow of TLAs (like reading, developing evidence-based output, debating) might be needed for an ILO, especially for engineering. Differences in learning styles and learning theories point in the direction of combining TLAs. Combining TLAs is necessary to engage students and keep them surprised! Activate students by making smart combinations of TLA’s overview based on Laurillard 2012,2016 Part of a smart design is the choice between on-campus and online versions of each TLAs Practical reasons (group size, available time, facilities, curriculum standards) might dictate that choice. In general, the TLAs on the left side can be achieved with media resources (online, books etc.). Most universities have a long tradition in this and new developments, such as knowledge clips and Massive Open Online Courses are creating more options. Limits to the use of online TLAs Wageningen University has introduced a lot of knowledge clips and other online teaching methods. Example: the first half of the second year Food Technology use mainly knowledge clips instead of lectures; most courses with practical’s or tutorials have replaced parts of the activities with