IEGR 425 - Engineering Education in Stem Learning Enviornments

3 Credits
Three lecture hours.

This course explores the nature of technologies we use to assist in our thinking, learning and teaching by examining the latest development in tools, techniques, and devices used in engineering education within a STEM learning environment. The course focuses on cognitive tools associated with engineering activities and how to blend them with science and mathematics using new tools, techniques and devices for managing the complexity of tasks to support inquiries into new discoveries and innovations and integrating them into PreK-16 educational processes. These tools range from representational tools, computational tools and cognitive tools for supporting group thinking and learning. The course evaluates various learning technologies relative to specific learning goals and outcomes and will design a technological tool to support thinking, learning and/or teaching about concepts in STEM. Identifying assessment methods that indicate cognitive change in learners as a measure of the effectiveness of a device/tool in context of an activity.

Prerequisite(s) Senior standing.
Offered (OFFERED AS NEEDED)