Designing Training Activities for a New PhD Program in Engineering Education

Abstract

This research paper for the practice of work-in-progress presents the training activities designed for students of a new PhD program in Engineering Education. These activities are based on the study of the training courses of five Engineering Education PhD programs, and on the literature concerning PhD training challenges. A set of competencies to be acquired is first defined; then the training activities are designed by means of a SPOOC (Self-Paced Open Online Course) in order to guide the acquisition of these competencies. The SPOOC is currently under design, taking an initial cohort of 9 students as an experimental group.