Understanding Engineering Students’ Learning Styles

Balfaqeeh, Muna

doi:10.15640/ijlc.v5n1a5

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“…The teachers should be adapting to such learning styles by designing appropriate teaching resources and picking up the appropriate style to instruct a specific group of students. The learning styles of engineering students have often been described as visual [1,2,3]; however, with the advent of digital communication systems, students lean on receiving information via digital media, with the ability of interacting with such material in different ways. In undergraduate engineering education, however, little has changed in classroom teaching to inspire students with these evolving learning preferences until the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020.…”

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Developing engaging engineering education resources based on students learning and educators’ teaching styles

Chakrabarti¹,

Fredriksson²

2022

Towards a New Future in Engineering Education, New Scenarios That European Alliances of Tech Universities Open Up

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The learning styles of engineering students have evolved over the years with the advent of technology-enhanced education. Educators have also changed their teaching styles to incorporate student-centric pedagogy and educational technology. While the COVID-19 pandemic proliferated online teaching worldwide, often forcing educators to conceptualize and convert face-to-face teaching materials to online learning modules, Ansys academic endeavours have also pivoted to support educators and digital learning. This paper highlights the Ansys Education Resources, aimed at helping undergraduate materials and simulation-based design educators teach and inspire students. These are also perfect for students and self-learners who are looking to complement classroom content. Moreover, these help professors in assigning supplemental homework or capstone projects. The resources, of which 80% are openly accessed, are categorized as lectures, case studies, micro-projects, exercises, etc., and make the educators’ job easier in inspiring and engaging the students’ digital learning process throughout the undergraduate curricula. Solutions to exercises and projects are restricted to educators with current Granta EduPack product licenses. In developing these resources, the content developers consider different teaching and learning styles with special emphasis on project-based learning and incorporating questions that inspire students to consider societal impact and ethical choices. Some resources are purposely prepared for discussions and debates.

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Developing engaging engineering education resources based on students learning and educators’ teaching styles

Chakrabarti¹,

Fredriksson²

2022

Towards a New Future in Engineering Education, New Scenarios That European Alliances of Tech Universities Open Up

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“…There are studies in the literature on the learning styles of pre-service teachers who are accepted to higher education only through exams that measure theoretical skills in different fields and with sample groups (Andres & Akan, 2015;Alsobhi & Alyouni, 2019;Balfaqeeh, 2017;Baykan & Naçar, 2007;Berkova et al, 2020;Chan & Mak, 2010;Choi & Sardar, 2011;Drago & Richard, 2004;Espinoza-Poves et al, 2019;Freiberg-Hoffmann et al, 2017;Galperin & Punnett, 2021;Goulding & Syed-Khuzzan, 2014;James-Gordon & Bal, 2001;Jepsen et al, 2015;Katsioloudis & Fantz, 2012;Marantika, 2022;Mozaffari et al, 2020;Nwajiuba & Onyeneke, 2022;Poon Teng Fatt, 2000;Tam, 2022;Tongal & Dağyar, 2022;Yousef, 2016;Yousef, 2018;Wilson et al, 2018;Zapalska & Brozik, 2006). According to these studies, students' dominant learning styles can be visual, aural, reading/writing, or kinesthetic.…”

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Learning Styles of Talented Pre-Service Teachers

Türker

Bostancı

2023

PEC

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The learning styles of students vary both among individuals and across different disciplines they choose to study. In higher education, academic discipline appears to be a key factor influencing students’ distinctive learning styles. This study, which aims to determine the dominant learning styles and models of talented pre-service teachers, was designed with the survey model. The study group research consisted of 1019 volunteer pre-service teachers who continued their education in Physical Education and Sports, Music, and Arts & Craft Teaching departments. In the study, the VARK Learning Style Inventory was used as a data collection tool; students were asked to answer questions in a digital environment through Google Forms. According to the research results, kinesthetic style is the dominant learning preference for pre-service teachers in the visual arts and sports sciences, and both kinesthetic and aural styles are the dominant learning preferences for pre-service teachers in music education. Although talented pre-service teachers tend to learn predominantly kinesthetic and aural styles when evaluated, 61.2% of pre-service teachers prefer to learn with a Multiple Learning Model, which covers the entire instructional diversity, rather than sticking to just one learning style. Keywords: learning styles, learning preference, talented teacher, VARK

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“…As a result, engineering students are exposed to a multidisciplinary field and to different teachers, each one with their own and pedagogically poorly structured approach. This difference is more emphatic in management disciplines learning, which requires specific concepts of the social sciences, imposing that students leave their vocational comfort zone which lend them choose to an engineering course [8].…”

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Exploring Learning Styles in a Portuguese Engineering School: Are They Different in Different Courses?

Sousa

Fontão

2020

Int. J. Eng. Ped.

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The Kolb model is widely used to analyze the learning style of engineering students; however, there are no published studies carried out in Portugal. This study was applied to students who had just began there courses at a Portuguese engineering school. This study object is to assess whether there is a clearly majority learning style; whether there are differences in the learning style among all students and between students in the industrial management course and those in the technological engineering courses. The results allow the pedagogical practice improvement in the classroom regarding the effectiveness increase of the teaching process. This study results also allow improving the way students approach the study, overcoming difficulties in understanding the topics studied, improving the construction of their skills and increasing the quality of the learning process.

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Understanding Engineering Students’ Learning Styles

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Developing engaging engineering education resources based on students learning and educators’ teaching styles

Developing engaging engineering education resources based on students learning and educators’ teaching styles

Learning Styles of Talented Pre-Service Teachers

Exploring Learning Styles in a Portuguese Engineering School: Are They Different in Different Courses?

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