Title :
Monitoring communication competence in an innovative context of engineering project management learning
Author :
Colsa, Ángel Uruburu ; Moreno-Romero, Ana ; Ortiz-Marcos, Isabel ; Cobo-Benita, José Ramón
Author_Institution :
Organizational Eng. & Project Manage. Dept., Tech. Univ. of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
This document presents an innovative, formal educational initiative that is aimed at enhancing the development of engineering students´ specific competences. The subject of project management is the common theoretical and practical framework that articulates an experience that is carried out by multidisciplinary groups. Full utilization of Web 2.0 platforms and Project Based Learning constitutes the applied methodology. More specifically, this study focuses on monitoring communication competence when working in virtual environments, providing an ad-hoc rubric as a final result.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; engineering education; innovation management; monitoring; project management; student experiments; virtual reality; Web 2.0 platforms; ad hoc rubric; communication competence monitoring; engineering project management learning; engineering students; formal educational initiative; innovative context; project based learning; virtual environments; Context; Educational institutions; Problem-solving; Project management; Virtual environments; communication competence; communication rubric; competence development in project management; interdisciplinary learning; virtual learning experience;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Marrakech
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1457-2
Electronic_ISBN :
2165-9559
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201161
