| Title | Flash Feedback for Second-Year Engineering (FF2E): Personalized Experiential Learning with Instant Feedback Through Shared WeBWorK Resources |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Applied Science |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2018 |
| Completion | 05/31/2020 |
| Project Summary | Effective practice in solving engineering problems requires timely feedback, allowing students to assess and improve understanding. Large classes (130-180) make timely feedback challenging when using paper-based assignments (weeks), and hours spent marking could otherwise increase instructor-student interaction. Online homework sites exist for engineering, but are typically costly for students. Currently, there is no free, online homework source for most engineering subjects. Our project is to create resources that instructors and students at UBC can use to allow fast feedback with no marking or student cost, using the WeBWorK open-source online homework platform. The WeBWorK Open Problem Library (OPL), widely used in UBC Mathematics, contains 35,000+ math problems, but very few engineering problems. We have identified 16 second-year engineering courses in five departments with overlaps in subject matter. We have been working to create and deploy 700+ WeBWorK problems in these courses to guide student practice, with subsequent posting to the OPL. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2018/2019 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Agnes d'Entremont |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 38,878 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Agnes d'Entremont, Instructor / Mech 2 Coordinator, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2019/2020 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Agnes d'Entremont |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 11,092 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Agnes d'Entremont, Instructor / Mech 2 Coordinator, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science |
| Project Report | 2019-TLEF-Final-dEntremont-WEB.pdf |