TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching Control supported by Virtual Labs under a Competency-based curriculum
AU - Vargas, H.
AU - De La Torre, L.
AU - Chacón, J.
AU - Heradio, R.
AU - Farías, G.
AU - Fabregas, E.
AU - Sanchez, J.
AU - Dormido, S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Competency-based education (CBE) is related, in simple words, with the possibility to create curricula whose main objective is to train students for the work reality, trying to minimize the time of adaptation of them in their future professional life. Although the philosophy behind this teaching paradigm is attractive, in practice its implementation entails an important effort for the academic institutions and teaching staff involved. In this context, this work presents a novel methodological proposal for teaching engineering competency-based courses; in this case, specifically applied on an automatic control course, providing details of its assessment structure and tools, learning activities developed (which integrates the use of virtual laboratories for online experimentation), and the method designed for the assessment of competencies.
AB - Competency-based education (CBE) is related, in simple words, with the possibility to create curricula whose main objective is to train students for the work reality, trying to minimize the time of adaptation of them in their future professional life. Although the philosophy behind this teaching paradigm is attractive, in practice its implementation entails an important effort for the academic institutions and teaching staff involved. In this context, this work presents a novel methodological proposal for teaching engineering competency-based courses; in this case, specifically applied on an automatic control course, providing details of its assessment structure and tools, learning activities developed (which integrates the use of virtual laboratories for online experimentation), and the method designed for the assessment of competencies.
KW - Automatic control
KW - Competencies
KW - Course assessment
KW - Engineering education
KW - Virtual labs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057491024&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.18687/LACCEI2018.1.1.463
DO - 10.18687/LACCEI2018.1.1.463
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85057491024
T3 - Proceedings of the LACCEI international Multi-conference for Engineering, Education and Technology
BT - 16th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
PB - Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions
T2 - 16th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Y2 - 18 July 2018 through 20 July 2018
ER -