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Abstract | ||
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Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a powerful tool for engineering design education. On the other hand, STEM education at pre-college levels is important, particularly for engineering education, to increase and maintain a nation's industrial competitiveness. In this paper, virtual PBL in Second Life was carried out for third graders (18 year old students) in some national colleges of technology, Japan. At the beginning of the class, teachers proposed an ill-structured problem for students to solve, like one in real life. The problem was “design your own eco-cars through virtual discussion and make them by prim virtually”. Students as avatars discussed the problem in Second Life using microphones. They designed their own eco-cars using pens and tablets and made virtual cars with prims. After the project was completed, they evaluated their work by offline questionnaires and online talks in the virtual world. All of the results were examined from the viewpoints of the effectiveness for engineering design and STEM education. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1016/j.procs.2013.09.165 | Procedia Computer Science |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Problem Based Learing,STEM Education,Second Life | Conference | 22 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1877-0509 | 1 | 0.48 |
References | Authors | |
2 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hideyuki Kanematsu | 1 | 18 | 9.81 |
| Toshiro Kobayashi | 2 | 7 | 3.63 |
| Nobuyuki Ogawa | 3 | 25 | 10.23 |
| Dana M. Barry | 4 | 13 | 3.39 |
| Yoshimi Fukumura | 5 | 39 | 12.74 |
| Hirotomo Nagai | 6 | 4 | 1.22 |