Work in progress: TwittING project. Using Twitter in engineering education

Author

Etxegarai, Agurtzane ; Fernandez, Elvira ; Eguia, Pablo ; Torres, Esther ; Buigues, Garikoitz

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain

fYear

2015

fDate

18-20 March 2015

Firstpage

768

Lastpage

770

Abstract

This paper presents TwittING project, which aims to use Twitter as an educational tool for engineering students. The background of the project was the positive experience of a lecturer team with a Classroom Response System (CRS) based on clickers. TwittING aims to use Twitter as a question-based learning tool, but also as a dynamic platform for the peer-to-peer communication and learning assessment. Preliminary results regarding the experience of both students and lecturers are presented in this paper.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; engineering education; social networking (online); CRS; TwittING project; Twitter; classroom response system; educational tool; engineering education; engineering students; learning assessment; lecturer team; peer-to-peer communication; question based learning tool; Conferences; Engineering education; Seminars; Smart phones; Twitter; Classroom Response System (CSR); Social Networking Services (SNS); Twitter; clicker; learning assessment; question based learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015 IEEE

Conference_Location

Tallinn

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096057

Filename

7096057