Mixed Groups as a Way to Teach Meta-Skills to Engineering Students

Mixed Groups as a Way to Teach Meta-Skills to Engineering Students

Proceedings of ‏The 2nd International conference on Advanced Research in Education, Teaching and Learning

Year: 2020

DOI:

Fulltex PDF

 

Mixed Groups as a Way to Teach Meta-Skills to Engineering Students

Mustonen Lea and Heikkilä Susan

 

ABSTRACT: 

The purpose of this article is to describe an example of teaching so-called meta-skills in Häme University of Applied Sciences Electrical and Automation Engineering study programme. The method has been conducted twice, in 2018 and 2019. Both times the first-year students were given a development project in which they studied the basics of programming. More important than programming was to learn meta-skills: teamwork skills, language and communication skills, IT skills, problem-solving skills, and skills to apply knowledge to practice and acting in a multicultural environment. The feedback was gathered after the implementations by the questionnaire. The results show that students think this kind of pedagogical method improves their previously described meta-skills. For teachers this means working more as a supervisor than a source of knowledge. In addition to meta-skills, the method increases interaction between students of different cultural and educational backgrounds. The method works as means of internationalization for Finnish-speaking students. For foreign students, the method is one way of increasing interaction with Finnish-speaking students and can act as a part of the integration process to Finnish society..

Keywords: meta-skills, teamwork skills, pedagogical method

education conferences

Mustonen Lea

Häme University of Applied Sciences, Finland

education conferences

Heikkilä Susan

Häme University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Related Posts---

Leave A Reply---

Back to top

Sign up in the newsletter form below to receive the latest news and updates about this Conference

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

About Cookies on This Site

We use cookies to give you the best experience on our website. By continuing to browse our website, you agree to our cookie policy