Abstract
The students following Engineering disciplines should acquire a conceptual understanding of the concepts and the processors and attitudes. There are two recognizable learning environments for students: classroom and laboratory environments. With the COVID-19 Pandemic, both environments merged to online environments, impacting students' processes and characteristic attitudes development. This paper introduces a theoretical framework based on experiential learning to plan and deliver processes online. A case study based on the power-factor correction experiment was presented. The traditional experiment that runs for 2 hours was broken into smaller tasks such as pre-lab activity, simulation exercise, PowerPoint presentation, remote laboratory activity, and final report based on the experiential learning approach. The delivery of the lab under online mode delivery was presented. Then students' performance was compared before and after the online mode of delivery. It was found that students' performance on average has a distinct improvement. In order to obtain students' reflections about the online experiential learning approach, a questionnaire that carries close and open-ended questions was administered. The majority of the students liked the approach followed and praised for allowing them to experiment in a novel way during the COVID-19.
Highlights
This paper introduces a theoretical framework based on experiential learning to plan and deliver processes online
The traditional experiment that runs for 2 hours was broken into smaller tasks such as pre-lab activity, simulation exercise, PowerPoint presentation, remote laboratory activity, and final report based on the experiential learning approach
The online mode for laboratory experiments during the COVID-19 Pandemic was new to many educators, and they often had doubts about the planning and delivery of laboratory experiments
Summary
Teaching engineering means more than enabling students to acquire knowledge. It is necessary to foster comprehension of a combination of content, processes, and characteristic attitudes related to the topic being studied. Laws, and theories, whereas processes include observation, classification, measurement, inference, prediction, and communication. Characteristic attitudes involve being curious, imaginative, and enthusiastic about asking questions and solving problems. It is important to focus on developing these three dimensions among students. In Engineering disciplines, the content is transferred to students in a classroom environment. The only way to grasp the practical knowledge and experiences for processes is through laboratory
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