More activity, less lectures: A technology stewardship approach applied to undergraduate engineering learning

Technology Stewardship in engineering education can be characterized as a process in the service of teaching and learning that involves the design, adoption or adaptation of educational technology and the subsequent facilitation of its use. In this paper the authors present five applications of this concept in undergraduate engineering teaching and learning. These applications represent exemplars of how IT tools can fruitfully be applied to help students assume a more active role in their learning. The exemplars illustrate decision making with regard to the design, adoption and adaptation of IT technology for pedagogical purposes and provide pointers for appropriate facilitation processes.