Meet & Eat | Curiosity Driven Education: Experimenting with learning strategies and student responsibility | 20 June

20 juni 2023 12:45 t/m 13:30 - Locatie: Teaching Lab, Forum, Building 32A - Door: Teaching Academy | Zet in mijn agenda

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Curiosity Driven Education

Experimenting with learning strategies and student responsibility


In this Meet & Eat, Santiago Garcia will talk about encouraging curiosity-driven learning, amongst others through transferring the responsibility of the learning process to his students. Different MSc and 1st year BSc courses within the Aerospace Engineering program were used as experimenting playground for this practice. During the session, Santiago will share methods used in the experiment, such as: active learning, flipped classroom, and exposure to and work on actual scientific research. Particular emphasis will be put on the use of these strategies in the first year bachelor program. Needless to say, Santiago will also reflect on the his analysis of the impact of these strategies on the course outcome, knowledge retention and satisfaction experience by students.

Timeline
12:30-12:45     Walk in & lunch
12:45-13:30     Curiosity Driven Education: Experimenting with learning strategies and student responsibility 
13:30-14:00     Optional: informal discussion


About the Speaker

Santiago Garcia Espallargas
Associate Professor, Research Unit leader of Surfaces and Dynamic Materials, and acting chairholder at the Novel Aerospace Materials group
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the TU Delft. 

His research has a marked multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary character involving materials chemistry, physics, mechanics and electrochemistry. Besides research, Santiago is involved  in BSc and MSc education programs at the TUDelft and the National Dutch Research School on Polymer Technology (RPK), direct supervision of BSc and MSc student projects, (co-)organization of conferences, participation in various management and commissions of trust at Faculty and international level (e.g. International Steering Committee Self-Healing Materials), and as international reviewer.