November 2019
News from the project
Dear readers of this fourth newsletter of our e-LIVES project, which is now in its last year of execution, I invite you to enjoy reading what we have accomplished so far.
Together with the different European and southern countries partners, we are now focusing on how to make sure our work is sustainable and will be used in the near and long future to support the development of e-Engineering courses worldwide. I address you as a co-leader of WP4 (Quality assessment of efficient pedagogical innovative solutions) and we are proud to state that, although still under revision, great results are already publicly available on our website https://e-lives.eu/. I address you now, while we are holding our 2nd General Assembly meeting in Madrid, Spain, under the auspices of the National Distance Education University (UNED), with all project partners. During this meeting, we typically discuss and present to all partners what has been done in the different work packages and what our future steps are to get out the best end result. Although we have a bi-weekly virtual meeting, we do note it is necessary to meet on a few general assemblies in person.
As said already, we are now in the final year of the project, so you might expect a number of concrete results to be available. Out of experience with a previous project with comparable partners (at that time it was still called a Tempus project, http://www.eoles.eu/), we noted that creating a virtual/remote course in an engineering discipline really has specific challenges. Hence we lifted these challenges to a meta-level and in this e-LIVES project we focus on all aspects of setting up such a course with real hardware remotely accessible to students. It comes with a number of challenges and we aim to help all staff who has the intention of creating those types of courses as much as we can, by sharing our experiences, best practices, evaluation techniques to know whether or not the course is good. A state-of-the-art good practices guide on the pedagogical, technical and administrative aspects of the e-Engineering concept is preliminarily available in open access on the project website e‐Engineering Good Practices Guide, together with the required quality assessment tools like questionnaires addressed to students, teachers and trainees on Quality assessment of the e-Engineering training. These questionnaires focus on the functional, pedagogical and didactic aspects of an e-Engineering course and serve to evaluate the perception stakeholders have of an e-Engineering training and the corrective measures to take.
Internally we work with a three step reviewing process. First the assigned partners create the necessary reports and deliverables in mutual agreement. Next, these interim results are passed through an internal working group to perform a peer review. Upon completion of the peer review, we have the preliminary deliverables available. As a final step most of these deliverables are reviewed by an external reviewer, to be sure that others, not originally involved in the project, are able to really use the results. An external viewpoint always helps in, what we express in Dutch as: “see the splinter in someone else’s eye, but not the beam in one’s own”. At that moment, corrective measures on all deliverables that have undergone this review process are adjusted and again uploaded to our website.
As a final point of attention, take a look at the brand new website https://e-engineering.org/ and submit your papers, so you can join us in Petra, Jordan in June 2020.
Yours sincerely,
Prof. J. Boydens, KU Leuven, Faculty of Engineering Technology, co-leader of the e-LIVES project “Quality assessment of efficient pedagogical innovative solutions” work package
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Call for PapersThe INTERNATIONAL e-ENGINEERING EDUCATION SERVICES CONFERENCE (e-ENGINEERING’2020) is the world’s premier forum dedicated to presenting and discussing e-Engineering courses implementation. The goal is to exchange ideas and best practices in all aspects related to the set up of e-Engineering courses, with a focus on undergraduate and graduate courses as well as vocational and lifelong learning training. The conference seeks to disseminate the concept of e-Engineering, and the responses it brings to the continuous need for enlarging and improving engineering education in a rapidly changing world. e-ENGINEERING’2020 will take place June 23-24, 2020, at Petra Marriott Hotel, in Petra, Jordan, organized by the Tafila Technical University (TTU). The conference has the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Education Society and of the IEEE Jordan Section. We invite you to submit original and unpublished works related to the conference topics. Please, take a look at the Call for Papers available on the conference website e-engineering.org |
The e-LIVES 2nd General AssemblyThe 2nd General Assembly of the e-LIVES project took place in the beautiful city of Madrid between the 5th and the 7th of November, 2019.
During the three days of the meeting, partners assessed the current development of the project activities and set the goals for the last twelve months of the project. The 3rd and last General Assembly of the project will take place in Petra, Jordan, together with the e-ENGINEERING’2020 conference. |
Quality assessment of the e-Engineering trainingOne of the goals of the e-LIVES project is to provide tools to assess the quality of e-Engineering training. Therefore, the stakeholders of the educational e-Engineering program should be assessed. Stakeholders consist first of all of the students, but also the teaching staff can deliver important input on the quality of the training. As a first step, questionnaires for students and teachers were created, based on a selection of multiple criteria that can deliver valuable insights into training quality. The first set of questionnaires addressed to students and addressed to the teaching staff may be downloaded from the e-LIVES Good Practices Guides webpage.
Questions, suggestions, and constructive criticism are welcomed. Please, participate in the debate in our blog. |
e-LIVES at CMT 2019e-LIVES was presented at: CMT 2019 Professor Noura Aknin from the Abdelmalek Essaadi University of Tétouan was an Invited Speaker at the Congress, having delivered a talk titled Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Transformation for Innovative Learning
Thank you for attending this Keynote Speaker session. |
e-LIVES at Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceThe article Modeling collaborative practical work processes in an E-learning context of engineering electric education was published in the Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vol 16, No 3, December 2019, pp. 1464-1473. The paper is available to download here. |
e-LIVES at ITHET 2019e-LIVES was presented at: ITHET 2019 Manuel Gericota, from the Polytechnic of Porto, presented the paper e-Engineering: engineering school at home without compromise The paper, published in the Proceedings of the Conference, is available at IEEE Xplore. Thank you for attending the session. |
e-LIVES at SEFI 2019e-LIVES was presented at: SEFI 2019 Andre Fidalgo, from the Polytechnic of Porto, presented the paper EOLES Course, 4 years and going… results and experiences The paper was published in the Conference Proceedings that are available to download here. Thank you for attending the session. |
e-LIVES was presented at the Virtual Technologies WorkshopThe workshop was organized in the context of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Project Transformation in Water, Energy, and Education (TWEED), held in Berlin, Germany, between the 24th and the 31st of August 2019. The workshop examined the deployment of Virtual Technologies within the context of the transformation of Water and Energy and the exploitation of the remote laboratories at the Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT), to teach students the fundamentals of Renewable Energy. The e-LIVES project was presented during the workshop as an example of the remote engineering projects in which PSUT is engaged in. |
e-LIVES at EduLearn 2019e-LIVES was presented with two papers at: EduLearn 2019
Best Practices for Organization and Quality Assessment of an e-Learning Training in the Higher Education System Pedagogical Theories for e-Learning Engineering Degrees Based on Remote Laboratories: the e-LIVES Approach The papers were published in the Proceedings of the Conference edited by IATED and available at the IATED Digital Library.
Thank you for attending the sessions. |
e-LIVES at END 2019e-LIVES was presented at: END 2019 Manuel Gericota, from the Polytechnic of Porto, presented the paper e-Engineering: Teaching Electrical Engineering at Distance The paper was published in the 1st Volume of the book Education and New Developments 2019, edited by Mafalda Carmo and printed by InScience Press, which is available to download here. Thank you for attending the session. |
e-LIVES at exp.at’19e-LIVES was presented at: exp.at’19 Manuel Gericota, from the Polytechnic of Porto, presented the paper e‑Engineering: Remote Labs in an Electronics and Optics e-Learning for Embedded Systems Course The paper, published in the Proceedings of the Conference, is available at IEEE Xplore. Thank you for attending the session. |
e-LIVES at Erasmus+ International Staff Week “A Window of Collaboration” Networking Faire-LIVES participated in the networking fair held by the Jordan University in Amman, on the 17th of April. A team from the Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) set up the project banner and distributed project leaflets during the event.
Thank you for attending the event. |
e-LIVES and the e-Engineering Alliance Special Sessions at REV’2020 and EDUCON’2020The e-Engineering Alliance, a Special Interest Group (SIG) inside the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) whose aim is to disseminate the e-Engineering concept all over the world, is organizing Special Sessions in the coming REV’2020 and EDUCON’2020 conferences. The 17th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV’2020) will take place between the 26th and the 28th of February, at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. The IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON’2020) will take place between the 27th and the 30th of April, at the School of Engineering, Polytechnic of Porto, Porto, Portugal. If you want to know more about the concept of e-Engineering and to be involved in the e-Engineering Alliance activities, go to the e-Engineering Alliance webpage, and see how to become a member. It is completely free. We are waiting for you. |
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