Critical aspects for learning - Making links between the object/event world and the theory/model world explicit in labwork

SEFI 2006 - 34th Annual Conference: Engineering Education and Active Students

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Carstensen, Anna Karin ^a,b   Bernhard, Jonte ^b  

^a JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Educational design; Electric circuits; Engineering education research; Labwork

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; CURRICULA; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; LABORATORIES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS; VIDEO RECORDING;

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; ENGINEERING CURRICULUM; ENGINEERING EDUCATION RESEARCH; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; LABWORK; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROBLEM-SOLVING SESSIONS; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84938828707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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