Title :
Work in progress: TwittING project. Using Twitter in engineering education
Author :
Etxegarai, Agurtzane ; Fernandez, Elvira ; Eguia, Pablo ; Torres, Esther ; Buigues, Garikoitz
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
Abstract :
This paper presents TwittING project, which aims to use Twitter as an educational tool for engineering students. The background of the project was the positive experience of a lecturer team with a Classroom Response System (CRS) based on clickers. TwittING aims to use Twitter as a question-based learning tool, but also as a dynamic platform for the peer-to-peer communication and learning assessment. Preliminary results regarding the experience of both students and lecturers are presented in this paper.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; engineering education; social networking (online); CRS; TwittING project; Twitter; classroom response system; educational tool; engineering education; engineering students; learning assessment; lecturer team; peer-to-peer communication; question based learning tool; Conferences; Engineering education; Seminars; Smart phones; Twitter; Classroom Response System (CSR); Social Networking Services (SNS); Twitter; clicker; learning assessment; question based learning;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Tallinn
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096057
