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Two engineering researchers have developed a hybrid lecture for their MA students. They have used different digital formats and methods of international cooperation during their course. After the lecture part, RUB students continued in a group work on sustainable processes in engineering industries.
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Dr. Philip Biessey, RUB, and Satu Pitkäaho, UOULU, have developed the following common objectives for their course:
1 – Internationalisation: through the cooperation with the foreign university, students experience concrete international cooperation, which opens up new perspectives on a professional and personal level.
2 – Content: this module focuses in detail on concrete procedures and processes for a sustainable, cycle-oriented industry; thus, it has a profile-forming significance especially for students of environmental engineering. It is singular in this sense at RUB.
3 – Digitalisation: by using different digital formats and corresponding didactic methods, the students experience new possibilities of knowledge development, exchange and cooperation within the framework of a course, which they are not familiar with from "conventional" modules, and which should increase their basic motivation and support their objectives for the entire course of study.
4 – Virtual mobility: Hybrid lectures in English; H5P-based learning videos in English on specific lecture-relevant topics.
The researchers organised a series of lectures online for both students’ cohorts. Afterwards, the German students worked in small groups on the application of sustainability criteria to recycling technologies and plastic production. They had to present and discuss their results in the plenum.
Challenges: The amount of planning, work and supervision required for the first implementation of the course was so high that specific intercultural learning objectives could not yet be addressed. The groups of students have not been internationally mixed yet but shall be in the next semesters.
Mentoring activities: Supervision and coaching of the group work during the practice sessions; consultation hours; feedback talks on the final presentations of the group work.
Voices of students: “The refreshingly different format. It breaks out of the rigid classical lecture format. The examination task is application-oriented and I am sure that I will still know what I have learned in a year's time and will not quickly throw it out of my short-term memory.”
“The mixture of lectures and time to work in the group is particularly good about the course.”
Dr. Philip Biessey and D.Sc. Satu Pitkäaho
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