The Engineering Eportfolio: Enhancing Communication, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving and Teamwork Skills?
Graduate attributes have received increasing attention over recent years as universities incorporate these attributes into the curriculum. Graduates who have adequate technical knowledge only are not sufficiently equipped to compete effectively in the work place; they also need non disciplinary ski...
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my.utem.eprints.71162015-05-28T03:47:10Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/7116/ The Engineering Eportfolio: Enhancing Communication, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving and Teamwork Skills? Linda , Khoo Mei Sui Maor, Dorit Schibeci, Renato L Education (General) Graduate attributes have received increasing attention over recent years as universities incorporate these attributes into the curriculum. Graduates who have adequate technical knowledge only are not sufficiently equipped to compete effectively in the work place; they also need non disciplinary skills ie, graduate attributes. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of an eportfolio in a technical communication course to enhance engineering students’ graduate attributes: namely, learning of communication,critical thinking and problem solving and teamwork skills. Two questionnaires were used to elicit information from the students: one on their preferred and the other on the actual learning process. In addition, student perceptions of the use of eportfolio as a learning tool were investigated. Preliminary findings showed that most of the students’ expectations have been met with their actual learning. This indicated that eportfolio has the potential as a tool to enhance students’ graduate attributes. 2011 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/7116/1/The_Engineering_Eportfolio-_Enhancing_Communication%2C_Critical_Thinking_and_Problem_Solving_and_Teamwork_Skills.pdf Linda , Khoo Mei Sui and Maor, Dorit and Schibeci, Renato (2011) The Engineering Eportfolio: Enhancing Communication, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving and Teamwork Skills? In: WASET 2011 International Conference, 24-26 June 2011, Paris, France. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/6387/ |
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Graduate attributes have received increasing attention
over recent years as universities incorporate these attributes into the curriculum. Graduates who have adequate technical knowledge only are not sufficiently equipped to compete effectively in the work place; they also need non disciplinary skills ie, graduate attributes. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of an eportfolio
in a technical communication course to enhance engineering
students’ graduate attributes: namely, learning of communication,critical thinking and problem solving and teamwork skills. Two questionnaires were used to elicit information from the students: one on their preferred
and the other on the actual learning process. In addition, student perceptions of the use of eportfolio as a learning
tool were investigated. Preliminary findings showed that most of the students’ expectations have been met with their actual learning. This indicated that eportfolio has the potential as a tool to enhance students’ graduate attributes. |
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The Engineering Eportfolio: Enhancing
Communication, Critical
Thinking and Problem
Solving and Teamwork Skills? |
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The Engineering Eportfolio: Enhancing
Communication, Critical
Thinking and Problem
Solving and Teamwork Skills? |
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The Engineering Eportfolio: Enhancing
Communication, Critical
Thinking and Problem
Solving and Teamwork Skills? |
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The Engineering Eportfolio: Enhancing
Communication, Critical
Thinking and Problem
Solving and Teamwork Skills? |
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The Engineering Eportfolio: Enhancing
Communication, Critical
Thinking and Problem
Solving and Teamwork Skills? |
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engineering eportfolio: enhancing
communication, critical
thinking and problem
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