As part of a national engineering education development project, the Finnish universities of applied sciences were asked to report their best practices in engineering education. Special focus in the questionnaire was set on successful case studies dealing with teaching and learning methods, innovative industrial co-operation, student counseling, and curriculum development. Finally, almost 70 case descriptions representing a wide selection of well-proven educational practices were reported. In this paper, the benchmarking process is described and the results are analyzed. Moreover, it is studied how these results relate to the educational vision drawn by the CDIO standards.
Pages:
8
Affiliations:
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, Pori, Finland
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Turku University of Applied Sciences, Turku, Finland
Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Keywords:
Teaching and learning methods
Project based learning
PBL
facilitating change
co-operation
Year:
2010
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