Animations as a tool for enhancing teaching and learning outcomes in civil engineering courses
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Paper/Presentation Title | Animations as a tool for enhancing teaching and learning outcomes in civil engineering courses |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Aravinthan, Vasantha (Author) and Worden, John (Author) |
Editors | Richards, Larry |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2010) |
ERA Conference ID | 42827 |
Number of Pages | 6 |
Year | 2010 |
Place of Publication | Champaign, IL. United States |
ISBN | 9781424462599 |
9781424462629 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2010.5673337 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://www.fie-conference.org/fie2010/ |
Conference/Event | 40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2010): Celebrating 40 Years of Innovation |
FIE Frontiers in Education | |
Event Details | FIE Frontiers in Education Rank A A A A A A A A A A A A A |
Event Details | 40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2010): Celebrating 40 Years of Innovation Event Date 27 to end of 30 Oct 2010 Event Location Virginia, United States |
Abstract | Many students today are visual learners and little inclined to study printed materials or text-based on-line courses. Animations can serve as effective multimedia tools to engage these students while facilitating and enhancing the student learning experience by explaining difficult concepts through visual means instead of the traditional way of heavy textual based presentation. The importance of animations would further be realized especially when the courses are offered at distance mode where students have to rely solely on the course materials to gain in-depth understanding. The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) in Australia is internationally recognized for its external delivery of courses. In this paper, we discuss the design and delivery of animations for two courses namely Public health Engineering and Geology and Geomechanics that are normally perceived to be challenging by civil and environmental engineering undergraduates. A new and innovative teaching approach was required to facilitate the students' learning of these unfamiliar materials in these courses. Animations including multimedia facilities were conceived as a better way of presenting the concepts to the students. In this paper, we discuss and further evaluate the overall performance of students as a result of introducing animations into the curriculum. |
Keywords | animations; public health engineering; geology; multimedia tool; visual learning; environmental engineering undergraduates; geomechanics; learning outcomes; text based online courses |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 360502. Computer gaming and animation |
390113. Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy | |
460799. Graphics, augmented reality and games not elsewhere classified | |
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Byline Affiliations | Department of Agricultural, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9zzq5/animations-as-a-tool-for-enhancing-teaching-and-learning-outcomes-in-civil-engineering-courses
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