A study of student attitude towards Media Based Instruction in introductory engineering courses

Author

Thomassian, Jean-Claude ; Desai, Anoop ; Kinnicut, Patrick

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng., State Univ. of New York, New York, NY

fYear

2008

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2008

Abstract

In this paper, Media Based Instruction technique is used to enhance student understanding of engineering fundamentals. It also seeks to examine the effects of technology based instruction in order to complement conventional instruction. This progress as well as lessons learned in the first two semesters of Media Based Instruction in introductory engineering courses namely Circuits, Electronics, and C++ for digital computation is evaluated and some statistics are offered. Pilot study: A concluding section assesses the advantages of complementing conventional instruction with Media Based Instruction.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; engineering education; social aspects of automation; C++; Circuits; Electronics; digital computation; engineering fundamentals; introductory engineering courses; media based instruction; student attitude; student understanding; technology based instruction; Algorithm design and analysis; Circuits; Computer aided instruction; Electrical engineering; Engineering education; Feedback; Instruments; Programming profession; Statistics; Switches; Engineering Education; Media Based Instruction; Pedagogy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008. FIE 2008. 38th Annual

Conference_Location

Saratoga Springs, NY

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1969-2

Electronic_ISBN

0190-5848

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2008.4720459

Filename

4720459