Application of problems-based learning in engineering courses - problem case: "domino effect"
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The work shown in this article arises from an experience in the application of an extracurricular strategy, which seeks to show how learning units (courses) can be integrated, emphasizing the importance of the skills developed in them. The applied methodology is based on the research-action approach, which permanently articulates research, action and academic training, where the teacher investigates about his own actions. In the praxis of the teacher, problem-based learning is applied, a didactic method of the domain of active pedagogies, based on learning by discovery and construction. Problem Based Learning is applied using the seven-jump method in undergraduate students with different levels of academic and investigative skills studied the dynamics of a pulse along a finite chain of dominoes, seeking to calculate the speed of propagation. The problem was approached from theory and experimentation in different learning units and academic semesters. The speed of propagation of the domino effect was calculated by students with skills in mathematical problems resolution of advanced semester (7º and 8º), providing an analytical expression based on the height of the file and the separation distance between them, verified with experimental results carried out by students in 2º and 3º semester, which are in the process of strengthening their skills in experimental data analysis and ICT use. It is proposed for future experiences the use of artificial intelligence, applying artificial neural networks to give a different perspective to the solution of the problem, emphasizing digital skills.
H. Barrows, "A Taxonomy of Problem-Based Learning Methos", Medical Education, vol. 20, nº 6, pp. 481-486, 1986 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01386.x
P. Morales Bueno y V. Landa Fitzgerald, "Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas" Theoria, vol. 13, pp. 145-157, 2004. Disponible en http://www.ubiobio.cl/theoria/v/v13/13.pdf
B. Restrepo Gomez, "Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas (ABP): Una innovación didáctica para la enseñanza universitaria", Educación y Educadores, vol. 8, pp. 9-19, 2005. Disponible en https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=83400803
M. T. Gonzalez Frias and A. Castro Lopez, “Impacto del ABP en el Desarrollo de la Habilidad para Formular Preguntas de Aprendizaje en Estudiantes Universitrarios,” Revista de Docencia Universitaria, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 57-66, 2011. Disponible en: https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/REDU/article/view/6180/6230 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/redu.2011.6180
S. Nuñez-Lopez, J. Avila-Palet and S. Olivares, “El desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en estudiantes universitarios por medio del Aprendizaje Basaado en Problemas,” Revista Iberoamericana de Educación Superior, vol. VIII, no. 23, pp. 84-103, 2017. Disponible en: http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/ries/v8n23/2007-2872-ries-8-23-00084.pdf DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/iisue.20072872e.2017.23.3012
J. Piaget, Psicología de la Inteligencia, Buenos Aires: Editorial Psique, 1972
P. Rodriguez, M. Guarnizo, I. Fetecua, J. Gomez and E. Rodriguez, “The Teachers Factor in the Value-Added Results of Colombian Higher Education Institutions,” in 17th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education and Technology, Montego Bay, 2019
D. E. Daykin, “Falling Dominoes,” SIAM Review, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 403-404, 1971 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1137/1013096
C. J. Efthimiou and M. D. Johnson, “Domino Waves,” SIAM Review, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 111-120, 2007 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1137/S0036144504414505
Council of the European Union, “Council Recomendation of 22 May 2018 on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning,” European Union, Brussels, 2018
A. M. E. Colmenares, “Investigación-acción participativa: una metodología integradora del conocimiento y la acción,” Voces y Silencios: Revista Latinoamericana de Educación, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 102-115, 2012. Disponible en: https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/10.18175/vys3.1.2012.07 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18175/vys3.1.2012.07
A. Latorre, La investigación-acción. Conocer y cambiar la práctica educativa, España: Editorial Graó, 2005
M. G. Pérez Serrano, Investigación Cualitativa. Retos e Interrogantes, Madrid: Editorial La Muralla, 2014
J. Toro Baquero, C. Reyes Blandón , R. Martinez, Y. Castelblanco, F. Cárdenas, J. Granés and C. A. Hernández, “Fundamentación Conceptual Área de Ciencias Naturales,” Grupo de Procesos Editoriales - ICFES, Bogotá, D.C., 2007
S. Shaw, “Mechanics of a Chain of Dominoes,” American Journal of Physics, vol. 46, no. 6, p. 640, 1978 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.11221
J. Walker, “The Amateur Scientist: Deep think on dominoes falling in a row and leaning out from the edge of a table,” Scientific American, pp. 122-129, 1984 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0884-122
I. M. Ryzhik and I. S. Gradshtein, Table of Integrals, Series, and Products., New York: Academic Press, 1965
M. L. Boas, Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, Wiley, 2007
O. I. Abiodun et al., "Comprehensive Review of Artificial Neural Network Applications to Pattern Recognition", in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 158820-158846, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945545.16 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945545
A. Shrestha and A. Mahmood, "Review of Deep Learning Algorithms and Architectures", in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 53040-53065, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2912200 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2912200
The work shown in this article arises from an experience in the application of an extracurricular strategy, which seeks to show how learning units (courses) can be integrated, emphasizing the importance of the skills developed in them. The applied methodology is based on the research-action approach, which permanently articulates research, action and academic training, where the teacher investigates about his own actions. In the praxis of the teacher, problem-based learning is applied, a didactic method of the domain of active pedagogies, based on learning by discovery and construction. Problem Based Learning is applied using the seven-jump method in undergraduate students with different levels of academic and investigative skills studied the dynamics of a pulse along a finite chain of dominoes, seeking to calculate the speed of propagation. The problem was approached from theory and experimentation in different learning units and academic semesters. The speed of propagation of the domino effect was calculated by students with skills in mathematical problems resolution of advanced semester (7º and 8º), providing an analytical expression based on the height of the file and the separation distance between them, verified with experimental results carried out by students in 2º and 3º semester, which are in the process of strengthening their skills in experimental data analysis and ICT use. It is proposed for future experiences the use of artificial intelligence, applying artificial neural networks to give a different perspective to the solution of the problem, emphasizing digital skills.
H. Barrows, "A Taxonomy of Problem-Based Learning Methos", Medical Education, vol. 20, nº 6, pp. 481-486, 1986 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.1986.tb01386.x
P. Morales Bueno y V. Landa Fitzgerald, "Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas" Theoria, vol. 13, pp. 145-157, 2004. Disponible en http://www.ubiobio.cl/theoria/v/v13/13.pdf
B. Restrepo Gomez, "Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas (ABP): Una innovación didáctica para la enseñanza universitaria", Educación y Educadores, vol. 8, pp. 9-19, 2005. Disponible en https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=83400803
M. T. Gonzalez Frias and A. Castro Lopez, “Impacto del ABP en el Desarrollo de la Habilidad para Formular Preguntas de Aprendizaje en Estudiantes Universitrarios,” Revista de Docencia Universitaria, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 57-66, 2011. Disponible en: https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/REDU/article/view/6180/6230 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/redu.2011.6180
S. Nuñez-Lopez, J. Avila-Palet and S. Olivares, “El desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en estudiantes universitarios por medio del Aprendizaje Basaado en Problemas,” Revista Iberoamericana de Educación Superior, vol. VIII, no. 23, pp. 84-103, 2017. Disponible en: http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/ries/v8n23/2007-2872-ries-8-23-00084.pdf DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/iisue.20072872e.2017.23.3012
J. Piaget, Psicología de la Inteligencia, Buenos Aires: Editorial Psique, 1972
P. Rodriguez, M. Guarnizo, I. Fetecua, J. Gomez and E. Rodriguez, “The Teachers Factor in the Value-Added Results of Colombian Higher Education Institutions,” in 17th LACCEI International Multi-Conference for Engineering, Education and Technology, Montego Bay, 2019
D. E. Daykin, “Falling Dominoes,” SIAM Review, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 403-404, 1971 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1137/1013096
C. J. Efthimiou and M. D. Johnson, “Domino Waves,” SIAM Review, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 111-120, 2007 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1137/S0036144504414505
Council of the European Union, “Council Recomendation of 22 May 2018 on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning,” European Union, Brussels, 2018
A. M. E. Colmenares, “Investigación-acción participativa: una metodología integradora del conocimiento y la acción,” Voces y Silencios: Revista Latinoamericana de Educación, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 102-115, 2012. Disponible en: https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/10.18175/vys3.1.2012.07 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18175/vys3.1.2012.07
A. Latorre, La investigación-acción. Conocer y cambiar la práctica educativa, España: Editorial Graó, 2005
M. G. Pérez Serrano, Investigación Cualitativa. Retos e Interrogantes, Madrid: Editorial La Muralla, 2014
J. Toro Baquero, C. Reyes Blandón , R. Martinez, Y. Castelblanco, F. Cárdenas, J. Granés and C. A. Hernández, “Fundamentación Conceptual Área de Ciencias Naturales,” Grupo de Procesos Editoriales - ICFES, Bogotá, D.C., 2007
S. Shaw, “Mechanics of a Chain of Dominoes,” American Journal of Physics, vol. 46, no. 6, p. 640, 1978 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1119/1.11221
J. Walker, “The Amateur Scientist: Deep think on dominoes falling in a row and leaning out from the edge of a table,” Scientific American, pp. 122-129, 1984 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0884-122
I. M. Ryzhik and I. S. Gradshtein, Table of Integrals, Series, and Products., New York: Academic Press, 1965
M. L. Boas, Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, Wiley, 2007
O. I. Abiodun et al., "Comprehensive Review of Artificial Neural Network Applications to Pattern Recognition", in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 158820-158846, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945545.16 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945545
A. Shrestha and A. Mahmood, "Review of Deep Learning Algorithms and Architectures", in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 53040-53065, 2019, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2912200 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2912200
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