Using brainstorming through social media to promote engineering students’ teamwork skills

Natawee Chaijum

doi:10.30935/scimath/9555

Abstract

Engineering students have placed demands on how their develop competency in teamwork skills, which is one of the most important competences for most engineers. Due to the advanced information technology, learning from computer-supported collaborative technologies could be more effective for learning nowadays. Brainstorming method is a form of learning in groups, combining with social media technology that can support learning to be more effective, especially for teamwork skills. In this research, we studied the engineering students’ teamwork skills and the satisfaction of our learning method. We evaluated the teamwork skills in 2 ways, by the teamwork process and by the group assignment results. The findings indicate that the use of our learning method may offer an interesting way to improve engineering students’ teamwork skills and feedback from students found that they are satisfied with their teamwork skill practice.

Highlights

Technological progress in Thailand is currently developing rapidly and continuously in many parts such as economy, society, politics, government, industry and innovation, which are all connected
Movingto the learning step, which the lecturer will describe the content on the specified topic and the topic will be given to the students to assess their teamwork skills by the following topics in each week, which are PM 2.5 dust, artificial intelligence system, Internet of things (IoT), smart home, smart city and 5G technology, respectively
Our teamwork skill process was evaluated from 6 assignments, which we divided into 6 criteria

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Introduction

Technological progress in Thailand is currently developing rapidly and continuously in many parts such as economy, society, politics, government, industry and innovation, which are all connected. Technology have had a role in people of all genders and ages, for example, in education, teachers must apply technology to teach students to learn and gain knowledge to be used in the workplace or students have to study more information from various sources on the internet in order to use in studied or for future careers etc. (Division of Research Administration and Education Quality Assurance, 2017; Wittayasin, 2017) During this twenty-first century, the skills that are necessary in this century can be divided into 4 topics (4Cs) which are critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity. Nowadays, learning has changed, the students have to study and search for information from various sources, especially from the internet by using various search tools such as smart phones, notebook computers, tablets, PCs, etc. Students must be socio-technical, which combines social behaviour with technological knowledge to create maximize efficiency in work or study (Trevelyan, 2019)

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