Campus-Wide Information Systems: Volume 29 Issue 4
Table of contents - Special Issue: Professionalism and sustainability in engineering education
Guest Editors: James Uhomoibhi
Web‐based learning design tool
F.B. Bruno, T.L.K. Silva, R.P. Silva, F.G. TeixeiraThe purpose of this paper is to propose a web‐based tool that enables the development and provision of learning designs and its reuse and re‐contextualization as generative…
Solar power generation for ICT and sustainable development in emerging economies
Damasen I. Paul, James UhomoibhiThe purpose of this paper is to systematically examine and draw attention to the potential benefits of solar power generation for access to and use of information and…
Digital Socrates: a system for disseminating and evaluating best practices in education
D.L. McEachron, C. Bach, M. SualpThe purpose of this paper is to examine existing learning innovation systems and propose a systematic methodology of delivering educational innovations in the right amount, in the…
Engineering in communities: learning by doing
J. GogginsThe purpose of this paper is to focus on a number of initiatives in civil engineering undergraduate programmes at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) that allow…
Analysis of a knowledge‐management‐based process of transferring project management skills
Toshihiro Ioi, Masakazu Ono, Kota Ishii, Kazuhiko KatoThe purpose of this paper is to propose a method for the transfer of knowledge and skills in project management (PM) based on techniques in knowledge management (KM).
An international collaboration to promote inquiry‐based learning in undergraduate engineering classrooms
D'Arcy C. Randall, Christy Moore, Isabel S. CarvalhoThe purpose of this paper is to describe specific techniques of “inquiry‐based learning” employed by three instructors in Engineering schools, one in Europe and two in the USA.
ICT as a tool for building social capital in higher education
K. Aleksic‐Maslac, M. MagzanThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in building social capital and human capacity, in terms of knowledge…
WebLab of a DC motor speed control didactical experiment
Karine Bauer, Luciano MendesWeblabs are an additional resource in the execution of experiments in control engineering education, making learning process more flexible both in time, by allowing extra class…
Online PBL: a route to sustainability education?
Bland Tomkinson, Ian HuttThe purpose of this paper is to investigate online problem‐based learning (PBL) as a route to achieving sustainability education using sponsored projects.
Notes about COOL: analysis and highlights of complex view in education
C.A. de OliveiraThe purpose of this paper is to present principles from the complex approach in education and describe some practical pedagogic experiences enhancing how “real world” perspectives…
Quality enhancement on e‐learning
E.S.I. OssiannilssonBenchmarking, a method for quality assurance has not been very commonly used in higher education with regard to e‐learning. Today, e‐learning is an integral part of higher…