Engineering education research in practice: evolving use of open ended group projects as a pedagogical strategy for developing skills in global collaboration (original) (raw)

2010, International journal of engineering education

Globalization presents engineering educators with new challenges as they face the need for graduates who can function comfortably in an increasingly distributed team context which crosses country and cultural boundaries. Scaffolding learners to acquire professional attributes which transcend the solely technical places stress on traditional curriculum models. This paper analyses an Open Ended Group Project Framework (OEGP) situated in an action research program applied within the IT in Society course at Uppsala University. ...