Students’ perceptions and performance with traditional vs. blended learning methods in an industrial plants course

• Autores: N. Forcada, M. Casals, X. Roca, M. Gangollels
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 23, no. 6, 2007, págs. 1199-1209
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With the advent of information and communication technologies (ICTs) learning strategies and methods have changed. Academics and students are also changing the way they teach and learn in an effort to adapt to these new methods. The aim of this paper is to compare students' perception of traditional vs. blended learning methods in the Industrial Plants course, which is part of the Degree in Industrial Engineering and Scheduling taught at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). A questionnaire was developed and given out to 163 students enrolled in the course, over a period of two academic years (2004±2005 and 2005±2006). The findings of this study provide practical guidelines for the implementation of new teaching methods.