In this talk I describe the approach I follow in my courses in first year engineering. The course requires student to participate actively in tasks both before and during the face-to-face sessions.

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in First Year Engineering
Abelardo Pardo (@abelardopardo)
Faculty of Engineering and IT
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching18 Nov 2015
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What
Why
How
Active Learning
Student Engagement
ELEC1601
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You’re about 30 minutes into your Monday morning energy
systems class, and things are not looking good. At least a
third of the students are texting or sleeping. Many of them
clearly don’t understand much of what you’re saying (their
midterm exam grades prove it), but they never ask
questions.
It’s been like this since the beginning of the semester and
you are getting desperate, so you decide to try something
different.
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Felder, Richard M., and Rebeca Brent. “Active Learning: An Introduction.” ASQ Higher Education 2, no. August (2009).
Prof. Emeritus Richard Felder
Chemical Engineering, NCSU

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What Active Learning
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Active
Learning
anything course-related
that all students in a
class session are
called upon to do other
than simply watching,
listening and taking
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Felder, Richard M., and Rebeca Brent. “Active Learning: An Introduction.” ASQ Higher Education 2, no. August (2009).

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Active Learning Works

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What
Why
Active Learning
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Self
Course Topic
Student as receptive
Student as active
Student as independent
Kugel, Peter. “How Professors Develop as Teachers.” Studies in Higher Education 18, no. 3 (January 1993): 315–28.
EdYourdon

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The new faculty member
So you want to win a career award
Good cop, bad cop: Embracing contraries in
teaching
What do they (students) know anyway?
Meet your students
How to prepare new courses while keeping your sanity
We never said it would be easy

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What
Why
Active Learning
Student Engagement
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Realistic scenarios
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The job interview
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What
Why
How
Active Learning
Student Engagement
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2 Hours
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3 Hours

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What
Why
How
Active Learning
Student Engagement
ELEC1601
JanneMorenflickr.com
bit.ly/elec1601

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AVR Architecture
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Create their own project

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Video events per week
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Questions next to videos
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COMAgenciadeComuniación
Innovation

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in First Year Engineering
Abelardo Pardo (@abelardopardo)
Faculty of Engineering and IT
Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching18 Nov 2015
MattConockflickr.com