Abstract
The context of the COVID-19 pandemic produced new immediate needs in the field of university teaching related to distance learning and forces the universities to transform their “traditional” face-to-face teaching methods, particularly with the implementation of online education. This situation represented a challenge not only for the universities but also for the teachers because they need to transform their teaching work in the classroom to online strategies for online learning environments. To meet these needs for effective online education an online pilot training course in Engineering Education based on the IGIP Curriculum of the TU Dresden was designed and implemented. The course “Introduction to online teaching and learning in engineering” (in Spanish: “Introducción a la Enseñanza-Aprendizaje Online en Ingeniería”) consisted of 4 modules implemented on a mix of online communication strategy of synchronous activities carried out on the Zoom platform, together with asynchronous work on a Moodle-based LMS platform. The course was offered between May and June 2020 for a group of academics of the Faculty of Engineering of a public Chilean University. This paper describes the designed online pilot training course in Engineering Pedagogy and presents the results of the evaluation of its implementation. For this a survey was applied and filled by the participants to evaluate the course and to know their per-ceptions about their competencies development to improve online learning in engineering.
Highlights
1.1 Teaching in higher educationNormally, the training of university teachers plays an important role in ensuring the quality of university teaching programmes
Based on the IGIP Curriculum developed by the TU Dresden [21] and the demands for effective online education [22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 38, 39] a pilot training course for the teaching staff of the Engineering Faculty at the Universidad de Talca (UTALCA) was developed
Based on the IGIP Curriculum developed by the TU Dresden [21] and the immediate needs and demands for effective online education during the COVID-19 pandemic [22, 23, 24, 25, 26] the pilot training course in e-learning modality “Introduction to the Online Teaching and Learning in Engineering” for the teaching staff of the Engineering Faculty at a Chilean university was implemented
Summary
1.1 Teaching in higher educationNormally, the training of university teachers plays an important role in ensuring the quality of university teaching programmes. The quality of teaching competencies in higher education has been underestimated compared to the quality of research iJEP ‒ Vol 11, No 5, 2021. Due to the importance of research performance for career progression in higher education institutions, most academics have prioritized research over teaching [4, 5, 6, 7]. Regarding the relationship between learning preferences ( their own history as a student) and the teaching preferences of the professors themselves, they indicated that most professors taught according to their teaching preferences, attending to the disciplinary structure of the scientific field and to a lesser extent to the characteristics of their students In this sense, evidence was found to support the idea that learning styles operate in teachers' preferred ways of teaching [9]
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