A Look-Back to Jump Forward: From an Ancient Innovation Culture to the Exploration of Emerging Pedagogies in Engineering

Francisca Barrios, Melanie Cornejo, Brian O’Hara, Francisco Tarazona-Vasquez

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Abstract

From its inception, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC) has had the vision of causing a disruptive change in society by educating a new generation of holistic engineers. The university has recently embarked on a radical transformation of its educational model, in order to deliver its promise. A flexible curriculum provides students not only with a strong STHEAM backbone imparted in a student-centered, active-learning format, but also exposes them to real engineering challenges and promotes the acquisition of professional skills from the onset. For this radical change to be implemented successfully, UTEC has decided to design and launch a Laboratory for Educational Innovation, called Moray. Moray has been conceived as an open platform, consisting of a common space and a set of protocols through which faculty, students, staff, and experts from top universities worldwide can work interdisciplinarily and collaboratively, towards the enhancement of learning experiences in higher education.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTeaching and Learning in a Digital World - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning
EditorsDavid Guralnick, Istvan Simonics, Michael E. Auer
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages638-648
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319732091
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2017 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 27 Sep 201729 Sep 2017

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume715
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

Conference20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2017
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period27/09/1729/09/17

Keywords

  • Educational innovation
  • Emerging pedagogies
  • Engineering education
  • Student-centered teaching
  • T-shaped engineers

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