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Publication Date: 2012
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Integrating Creativity Training into Problem and Project-Based Learning Curriculum in Engineering Education
Zhou, Chunfang
European Journal of Engineering Education, v37 n5 p488-499 2012
In order to foster creative engineers, a creativity training programme was carried out in medialogy education in a Problem and Project-Based Learning (PBL) environment at Aalborg University, Denmark. This paper focuses on the question of how engineering students perceive the strategy of integrating creativity training into a PBL curriculum. A total of 20 medialogy students in the training programme were interviewed. The data shows that the training programme was thought useful and students get benefits such as gaining project work skills, creative concepts and confidence of being creative. However, limitations of the programme show that only five days of training did not fit the requirements of learning skills in PBL. So the supervisors are suggested to offer more creativity techniques and process engagement to move projects forward. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Problem Based Learning, Student Attitudes, Engineering Education, Engineering, Foreign Countries, Creativity, Job Skills, Student Projects, Training, Interviews, Universities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Denmark
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