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Furber, Alison, Crapper, Martin, Gillie, Martin, Stratford, Timothy, Bisby, Luke, Blackford, Jane and White, Douglas (2014) Innovative learning at the University of Edinburgh. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management, Procurement and Law, 167 (1). pp. 13-24. doi:10.1680/mpal.13.00020 ISSN 1751-4304.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/mpal.13.00020
Abstract
The activities available to civil engineering students during the University of Edinburgh's innovative learning week in 2012 were examined. The academic staff proposed a wide range of possible activities and student participation was optional. Popular activities were those with a ‘hands-on’ element: making or doing something. The practical activities offered included designing and building trebuchets, relaying railway permanent way on a heritage railway, practical workshops on engineering in international development and learning to juggle. These activities suggested that heuristic learning by trial and error was likely to enhance the visualisation skills that contribute to good engineering design. Further, the linking of achievement to purposeful practice rather than innate talent could inform teaching methods in the future. They also showed that in some cases safety culture messages were still not fully assimilated by students.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > Engineering | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Management, Procurement and Law | ||||||
Publisher: | Thomas Telford ; ICE | ||||||
ISSN: | 1751-4304 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 February 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 167 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 13-24 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1680/mpal.13.00020 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||||
Type of Event: | Conference |
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