What is it about?
This work describes the methodology, procedure and results obtained from the application of an education cooperative learning experience, using the freely downloadable NIPPE software as an interactive resource for the visualisation of concepts and mechanisms in the subject of mechanics. The experience is applied to students in the second year of a degree course in Forestry Engineering at the Madrid Polytechnic University
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Why is it important?
The complexity of the discipline, combined with the students' motivation, preparedness and preconceptions, are all obstacle to the teaching of the subject of mechanics in engineering. Teachers of this subject who are aware of the situation have sequentially introduced a series of teaching initiatives based on cooperative learning techniques to make changes in the programme, the teaching methodology, and the way the subject is evaluated. These actions are designed to allow students and teachers to be equally involved in the learning process, and to harness this synergy so it becomes another factor in knowledge creation
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The use of this software by engineering students enables them to acquire new abilities and skills. As the students develop the material, they are required to penetrate more deeply into their knowledge of the problem, and also visualise the correctness of their calculation graphically on the screen. A large proportion of the students who showed considerable reluctance to handling the software when they begin the experience had overcome this reticence by the end of their work
Dr María Angeles M.A. Grande-Ortiz
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
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This page is a summary of: Cooperative learning in Forestry Engineering with NIPPE Descartes software, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, January 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/cae.21783.
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