Fostering the Creative Attitude with Remote Lab Learning Environments: An Essay on the Spirit of Research in Engineering Education
|
| Title | Fostering the Creative Attitude with Remote Lab Learning Environments: An Essay on the Spirit of Research in Engineering Education |
| Authors | |
| Abstract | Creativity has been proclaimed to be one of the most important 21st century skills. Facing tremendous problems, creativity and innovation were seen as key factors of a knowledge-based society able to cope with ongoing and future problems. As Engineers are addressed to play an important role in facing these challenges, the question arises in which way universities could contribute to educate crea-tive engineers. This slightly provoking essay inducts possible boundary conditions and constraints of fostering creativity in engineering education. Moreover, it presents first results from a small-sample pre-study on higher engineering educa-tion curricula, conducted in the funded German project “ELLI–Excellent Teaching and Learning in Engineering Education”, which suggests a lack of creativity education in the examined curricula. Furthermore, a descriptive analysis of the didactic approach of the finished EU-project “Pe-TEX–Platform for E-Learning and Telemetric Experimen-tation” provides information about possibilities of fostering the creative attitude in engineering education by means of remote labs. Finally, the essay resumes with future tasks for the ELLI project and open questions addressing relevant future educational and socio-economic impacts, regarding the role of creativity in engineering education and the pro-fessionalization of engineers. |
| Publisher | kassel university press GmbH |
| Date | 2013-05-27 |
| Source | 1868-1646 |
| Rights | The submitting author warrants that the submission is original and that she/he is the author of the submission together with the named co-authors; to the extend the submission incorporates text passages, figures, data or other material from the work of others, the submitting author has obtained any necessary permission. Articles in this journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-BY What does this mean?). This is to get more legal certainty about what readers can do with published articles, and thus a wider dissemination and archiving, which in turn makes publishing with this journal more valuable for you, the authors. This journal has been awarded the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals (What´s this?) |