An Evidence-Based Study on Teaching Computer Aided Design in Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

The pandemic has had a major effect on engineering education, transforming both current and future teaching practice. The physical meetings between student and teacher have during the pandemic been replaced by online contact and recordings of lectures and demonstrations. In this paper, the focus is on computer aided design (CAD) teaching for first-year engineering students. CAD is a topic usually characterized by a close contact by student and teacher, with hands-on instruction at the computer using the CAD software. In the paper, the experiences and learnings from the rapid shift to on-line teaching in CAD are summarized and discussed, and learnings and takeaways for a redesign of future CAD teaching are discussed. Both the students’ learning and their mental wellbeing are evaluated. It is found that on a general level, the students were satisfied with the online teaching and rated it as better or equal to traditional teaching. However, there is still room for improvement, since some students found the situation stressful and pointed out the difficulty to ask questions online. The findings are based on a student survey, existing literature, and the authors own teaching practices during the pandemic.

Computer aided design

Mechanical engineering

Online

Pandemic

Teaching

Författare

Andreas Dagman

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Produktutveckling

Kristina Wärmefjord

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Produktutveckling

Education Sciences

22277102 (eISSN)

Vol. 12 1 29

Ämneskategorier

Didaktik

Lärande

Pedagogiskt arbete

DOI

10.3390/educsci12010029

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DATASET An evidence-based study on teaching computer aided design in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic [dataset]

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5546772

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