An Engineering Social Building to Promote Collaborative Learning Practices

作者：Catalina Ramirez Maria; Duque Mauricio; Celis Jorge; Tiberio Hernandez Jose; Caicedo Bernardo; Carvajal Alejandro

来源：International Journal of Engineering Education, 2013, 29(3): 740-751.

• engineering social building
• engineering competences
• active learning engineering
• new learning practices

This paper describes and analyses the perceptions of students of the School of Engineering of Los Andes University (Colombia) regarding the new Mario Laserna (ML) building where an infrastructure of laboratories, halls and spaces has been developed with the purpose of promoting collaborative learning and research practices. The design of this new infrastructure for education in engineering is based on the study of some international examples (which will be succinctly presented) and also on the consideration of the role of space and equipment in teaching and learning practices and upon the desired structure of a modern engineering curriculum. The results presented were obtained through the analysis of a survey of the cohort of students who took courses in the old building (W), built in 1968, as well as in the ML building. The survey especially focused on how the new spaces affected the ways the students work and interact with their peers. In the concluding section, certain hypotheses derived from the results are presented with the intention of promoting further studies.

• 出版日期2013