TU Delft Education Day | The Experiment | 4 November
The Experiment - Shaping Delft Engineering Education
The TU Delft Education Day is the event of the year to get inspired by innovative education. This year’s theme of TU Delft Education Day is ‘The Experiment - Shaping Delft Engineering Education’. Experimenting is fundamental to science and engineering and is an inherent part of education at TU Delft. Understanding what works in education and sharing our findings is essential to collaboratively enhance engineering education. Let’s build upon lessons learnt and experiment together!
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1. Education Technology
Technology is indispensable in today’s and tomorrow’s world and the education industry is no exception. Having a safe space to experiment as well as to safeguard the learning experience of students is of utmost importance when using various technologies in education. This begs the questions: What role does, can, and should technology play in engineering education? How can we optimise the use of existing and new technologies to improve the teaching and learning experience. How can we do this without compromising student results in the process?
2. Forms of Education
There are many forms of education to choose from to offer the best learning experience for students while improving your teaching experience;. Examples are blended, hybrid, living labs, maker spaces, challenge-based learning etc. In this area you encounter questions like: What changes would you like to make in your teaching to improve students’ learning experience? How can digital tools help you in achieving this? What experiments are taking place and what can we learn from these?
3. The Engineer’s Mindset
There are a multitude of things we experiment with in life to understand who we are and who we want to be, to know what we like and dislike, to find out what we want and how we want to live our lives. Students are at the start of their journey figuring out who they want to be. As more experienced explorers, we can show them different ways to experiment and grow. What are things lecturers can do or say to help students in their way to self-actualisation? How can we support existing mindsets to collaboratively solve wicked problems? How can we shape resilient, self-aware, and strong minds that are equipped and willing to make an impact for a better society? -
10:00 Registration & Coffee
10:30 Welcome and Opening by Rob Mudde & Annoesjka Cabo
10:50 Keynote by Aldert Kamp (Co-Director CDIO) | Adapting education to change: how much, how fast, in what way?
11:35 Sessions: Round 1
12:30 Lunch & Demo Zone
13.30 Plenary Session by Peter Pelzer & Jesse Hoffman (UU) | Futuring towards the Academy of Hope
14:10 Sessions: Round 2
15:00 Coffee & Demo Zone
15:30 Award Ceremony
15:50 Plenary Session by Manu Kapur (ETH Zurich) | Productive Failure
16:20 Closing by Rob Mudde & Annoesjka Cabo
16:30 Drinks, Bites & Demo Zone
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Aldert Kamp
Peter Pelzer
Jesse Hoffman
Manu Kapur
Astrid van der Niet
Maria Sovago
Pim van Schöll
Bas Flipsen
Martine Rutten, Vanessa Schaller & Emma Little
Stefan Persaud
Calvin Rans
Mauricio Aniche & Frank Mulder
Timon Idema
Frits van Loon
Maurits Ertsen
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Aldert Kamp
10:50 | Adapting education to change: how much, how fast, in what way?
Aldert Kamp is the Co-director of the CDIO Initiative, a leading worldwide collaborative network for innovative engineering education, and the immediate past director of Education at TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (2007-2020) and past Delft leader of 4TU.Centre for Engineering Education (2014-2020). He has been deeply involved in the rethinking of higher engineering education with a time horizon of 15 to 20-years. He is the author of the thought-provoking reports (2016) Engineering Education in a Rapidly Changing World and (2020) Navigating the Landscape of Higher Engineering Education.
Click here to read the keynote summary.
Peter Pelzer
Jesse Hoffman
13:30 | Futuring towards the Academy of Hope
Peter Pelzer & Jesse Hoffman represent the educational team from the Urban Futures Studio at Utrecht University who came in second with the 'Mixed Classroom' project for the Dutch Higher Education Award. The Mixed Classroom is a course in which students and policymakers learn from and with each other about the imagination of the future. The jury valued the innovative educational concept because of the rich exchange of knowledge and learning between students, policymakers, scientists, artists and designers about sustainability issues that has ensured solid bridges between science and practice. With the premium that came with the price, Peter, Jesse and their colleagues will work towards a new innovative programme titled the ‘Academy of Hope’, for which they hope nothing less than to reinvent learning in the 21th century.
Manu Kapur
15:50 | Productive Failure
Manu Kapur holds the Professorship for Learning Sciences and Higher Education and directs The Future Learning Initiative (FLI) at ETH Zurich (Switserland). Drawing on his engineering mindset for design, Manu conceptualized and developed the theory of ‘Productive Failure’ to design for and bootstrap failure for learning mathematics better.
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Martine Rutten, Vanessa Schaller & Emma Little
Blue engineering: an experiment with student-led education for a social and ecological responsible mindset
This session will only be on campus in the Teaching Lab
This semester students of the track Environmental Engineering at the faculty of CEG are participating in an experiment with Blue Engineering. Blue Engineering is an innovative student-led workshop-style course on social and ecological responsibility, developed by the TUBerlin. The experiment was initiated by two students. In this workshop you will experience one of the Blue Engineering building blocks and participate in a discussion on the role of Blue Engineering and comparable learning activities in TU Delft education.
Pim van Schöll
Finding the best way to show your story on screen
Let's talk about media in education. Good education needs a good story and that is where you need to think about your format. At the NewMedia Centre I have seen a wide range of media products, from studio recordings and (live) podcasts to 360 videos and entire VR productions. In this session I want to discuss different examples and explore the various considerations to make an informed media decision.
Maurits Ertsen
Using stereotypes to activate your class?
This session will only be on campus in the Teaching Lab
In this session, through learning by experience, Maurits will illustrate how addressing stereotypes can activate learners. First, you will act as students, through an interactive discussion that is part of the course Engineering and Development. After this assignment, participants will be asked to think as lecturer to discover how the activity can (not) be part of their own teaching – and TU Delft’s education in general.
Astrid van der Niet
A reflection on an experiment involving reflection
In the new master Robotics, there is a large focus on educating the 'reflective engineer'. But how was this experiment with reflection set up, and what are the first results? And how much priority does teaching reflection skills actually have? Astrid van der Niet will reflect on last year's efforts and invite participants to share their own experiences with educating the reflective engineer.
Calvin Rans
The Student Flight Data Recorder: Building a student culture of learning from mistakes
Many of us have been in the situation where we have observed that student learning and success has been hindered by deficiencies in their ability to plan, self-reflect, and learn from their own mistakes and failures. Students tend to focus on grades and the need to succeed rather than the process of learning and what they can learn from both their successes and failures. The Student Flight Data Recorder project is an attempt to challenge this view and get students to address these deficiencies by framing the self-reflection process as an Air Safety Investigation. In this session, we will briefly review the concept of the Student Flight Data Recorder and how it was implemented in the Aerospace Engineering Bachelor program, and reflect as a group of educators on the need, effectiveness, and hopefully future iterative improvements on the concept for helping students to succeed along their academic journey.
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Stefan Persaud
Bas Flipsen
Productive Failure in Action
This session will only be on campus in the Teaching Lab
Students that engage in Collaborative Problem Solving outperform students who receive Direct Instructions first. Not only on well-structured problems but also on complex problems. In this workshop we will present an IDE case study and a workshop where you will experience Productive Failure in action (Kapur & Bielaczyc, 2011).
Timon Idema
Interactive and open textbooks for the 21st century
While we all know that the future is multi-disciplinary, the textbooks from which we teach are usually still written from a monodisciplinary perspective. To compensate, many teachers develop their own material. Most of those materials however don’t make it beyond a single class, as teachers lack the time and options to develop them further. Much can be gained by working together, if we have the right tools. In particular, we could develop educational materials in the same spirit in which open software is developed: a combination of the approach of gitlab and Wikipedia, allowing people to contribute to or branch from projects while getting credit for their work. In this session, I will demonstrate how we are currently putting these ideas into practice for various courses in the Nanobiology programme, combining the use of easy-to-use software, working with TAs both on content and on design, and in close collaboration with the TU Delft Library.
Maria Sovago
Education Reinvented
This session will only be on campus in the Teaching Lab
Last year we have reinvented ourselves. In a tempo we did not imagine. And education was no different. I would like to share with you my journey of transformation as a lecturer. What transformation did you go through? Let’s find out together!
Frits van Loon
Who is in the Lead?
Getting a group of fifteen students from the disciplines of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture, to develop a project from sketch to build construction, within eight to ten weeks. Where they in the end are responsible for the development and execution of this project. This means that the biggest task for us teachers is to guide them into leadership over themselves and the team. A complicating aspect in the switch between making the concept and building it often means a switch in 'who is in the lead'!
Mauricio Aniche & Frank Mulder
From traditional lecturing to flipped classroom and automated assessment: How did we do it?
Are you still giving traditional lectures, although you would like to change that? Yes, it is possible. In this talk, we will walk you through how we completely revamped Software Testing and Quality (CSE1110), a 1st-year course in the Computer Science bachelor attended by roughly 500 students. We first converted a hard-to-grade assignment to a peer grading assignment, we then fully flipped the classroom, and finally, we automated the assessment of the final exam. How did we convince ourselves that the change was needed? How much effort did we have to put on it? How did we evaluate the results? Join the talk and learn how you can transform your course as well.
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Plenary
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Recording Opening Rob Mudde & Annoesjka Cabo Unfortunately this recording is not available. Keynote: Adapting Education to Change Aldert Kamp Unfortunately this recording is not available. Instead, read the keynote summary here. The slideshow of the keynote is available upon request. Futuring Towards the Academy of Hope Peter Pelzer & Jesse Hoffman (UU) The recording of this part is available upon request. Award Ceremony Rob Mudde & Annoesjka Cabo
The recording of this part is available upon request. TU Delft Lecturer of the Year announcement video
Click here to watch the recording. Productive Failure
Manu Kapur (ETH Zurich) The recording of this part is available upon request. Closing
Rob Mudde & Annoesjka Cabo
The recording of this part is available upon request. Session
Session leader(s)
Link to the recording
The Student Flight Data Recorder: Building a student culture of learning from mistakes
Calvin Rans
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A Reflection on an Experiment Involving Reflection
Astrid van der Niet
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Finding the best way to show your story on screen
Pim van Schöll
Click here to watch the recording.
Who is in the lead?
Frits van Loon
Click here to watch the recording.
Interactive and open textbooks for the 21st century
Timon Idema
Recording upon request.
Contact the Teaching AcademyFrom traditional lecturing to flipped classroom and automated assessment: How did we do it?
Mauricio Aniche &
Frank MulderRecording upon request.
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Click here to read the summary of the keynote by Aldert Kamp