TU Delft Education Day | The Experiment | 4 November

10:50 | Adapting education to change: how much, how fast, in what way?

Aldert Kamp is the Co-director of the CDIO Initiative, a leading worldwide collaborative network for innovative engineering education, and the immediate past director of Education at TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (2007-2020) and past Delft leader of 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education (2014-2020). He has been deeply involved in the rethinking of higher engineering education with a time horizon of 15 to 20-years. He is the author of the thought-provoking reports (2016) Engineering Education in a Rapidly Changing World and (2020) Navigating the Landscape of Higher Engineering Education.

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15:50 | Productive Failure

Manu Kapur holds the Professorship for Learning Sciences and Higher Education and directs The Future Learning Initiative (FLI) at ETH Zurich (Switserland). Drawing on his engineering mindset for design, Manu conceptualized and developed the theory of ‘Productive Failure’ to design for and bootstrap failure for learning mathematics better.

Blue engineering: an experiment with student-led education for a social and ecological responsible mindset

This session will only be on campus in the Teaching Lab

This semester students of the track Environmental Engineering at the faculty of CEG are participating in an experiment with Blue Engineering. Blue Engineering is an innovative student-led workshop-style course on social and ecological responsibility, developed by the TUBerlin. The experiment was initiated by two students. In this workshop you will experience one of the Blue Engineering building blocks and participate in a discussion on the role of Blue Engineering and comparable learning activities in TU Delft education.

Finding the best way to show your story on screen

Let's talk about media in education. Good education needs a good story and that is where you need to think about your format. At the NewMedia Centre I have seen a wide range of media products, from studio recordings and (live) podcasts to 360 videos and entire VR productions. In this session I want to discuss different examples and explore the various considerations to make an informed media decision.

Using stereotypes to activate your class?

This session will only be on campus in the Teaching Lab

In this session, through learning by experience, Maurits will illustrate how addressing stereotypes  can activate learners. First, you will act as students, through an interactive discussion that is part of the course Engineering and Development. After this assignment, participants will be asked to think as lecturer to discover how the activity can (not) be part of their own teaching – and TU Delft’s education in general.

A reflection on an experiment involving reflection

In the new master Robotics, there is a large focus on educating the 'reflective engineer'. But how was this experiment with reflection set up, and what are the first results? And how much priority does teaching reflection skills actually have?  Astrid van der Niet will reflect on last year's efforts and invite participants to share their own experiences with educating the reflective engineer.

The Student Flight Data Recorder: Building a student culture of learning from mistakes

Many of us have been in the situation where we have observed that student learning and success has been hindered by deficiencies in their ability to plan, self-reflect, and learn from their own mistakes and failures. Students tend to focus on grades and the need to succeed rather than the process of learning and what they can learn from both their successes and failures. The Student Flight Data Recorder project is an attempt to challenge this view and get students to address these deficiencies by framing the self-reflection process as an Air Safety Investigation. In this session, we will briefly review the concept of the Student Flight Data Recorder and how it was implemented in the Aerospace Engineering Bachelor program, and reflect as a group of educators on the need, effectiveness, and hopefully future iterative improvements on the concept for helping students to succeed along their academic journey.

Interactive and open textbooks for the 21st century

While we all know that the future is multi-disciplinary, the textbooks from which we teach are usually still written from a monodisciplinary perspective. To compensate, many teachers develop their own material. Most of those materials however don’t make it beyond a single class, as teachers lack the time and options to develop them further. Much can be gained by working together, if we have the right tools. In particular, we could develop educational materials in the same spirit in which open software is developed: a combination of the approach of gitlab and Wikipedia, allowing people to contribute to or branch from projects while getting credit for their work. In this session, I will demonstrate how we are currently putting these ideas into practice for various courses in the Nanobiology programme, combining the use of easy-to-use software, working with TAs both on content and on design, and in close collaboration with the TU Delft Library.

Education Reinvented

This session will only be on campus in the Teaching Lab

Last year we have reinvented ourselves. In a tempo we did not imagine. And education was no different. I would like to share with you my journey of transformation as a lecturer. What transformation did you go through?  Let’s find out together!

Who is in the Lead? 

Getting a group of fifteen students from the disciplines of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, to develop a project from sketch to build construction, within eight to ten weeks. Where they in the end are responsible for the development and execution of this project. This means that the biggest task for  us teachers is to guide them into leadership over themselves and the team. A complicating aspect in the switch between making the concept and building it often means a switch in 'who is in the lead'!

From traditional lecturing to flipped classroom and automated assessment: How did we do it?

Are you still giving traditional lectures, although you would like to change that? Yes, it is possible. In this talk, we will walk you through how we completely revamped Software Testing and Quality (CSE1110), a 1st-year course in the Computer Science bachelor attended by roughly 500 students. We first converted a hard-to-grade assignment to a peer grading assignment, we then fully flipped the classroom, and finally, we automated the assessment of the final exam. How did we convince ourselves that the change was needed? How much effort did we have to put on it? How did we evaluate the results? Join the talk and learn how you can transform your course as well.