DocumentCode :
3563021
Title :
Design based wilderness education: A cross-cultural experience in engineering education
Author :
Saulnier, C.R. ; Bagiati, A. ; Brisson, J.G.
Author_Institution :
MIT-SUTD Collaboration, Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
fYear :
2014
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
5
Abstract :
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been collaborating since 2010 with the Singapore Ministry of Education to help develop the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). One element of this collaboration, the Global Leadership Program (GLP), aims to provide SUTD students with the opportunity to interact with the MIT community and experience MIT´s academic culture, while at the same time participating in programming to assist with the development of leadership skills. This paper describes a curriculum combining the pedagogies of design-based learning and wilderness education that was implemented in the summer of 2014 as a component of GLP. Wilderness education was selected as a pedagogical framework for this program as it may be well suited to create effective learning environments for engineering education, cross-cultural learning, and fostering conceptual change. Through design activities both for and in a natural environment, students were encouraged to develop competency in engineering science while exploring the diverse attributes essential for success as an engineer.
Keywords :
cultural aspects; educational institutions; engineering education; human resource management; Global Leadership Program; MIT community; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; SUTD students; Singapore Ministry of Education; Singapore University of Technology and Design; cross-cultural experience; cross-cultural learning; design based wilderness education; design-based learning; engineering education; leadership skills; learning environments; Context; Cultural differences; Educational institutions; Engineering education; Teamwork; Cross-cultural Learning; Design-based Learning; International Collaborations; Wilderness Education;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2014 IEEE
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2014.7044034
Filename :
7044034
Link To Document :
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