Title: IT-intro
1IT-intro
- Students and teachers at the
- Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
NTNU, make a modern education.
2Paradigm Shifts
- Years ago first time mankind
- 50 000 - speak words
- 5 000 - write letters
- 500 - print books
- 50 - use IT-technology
- 5 - use web-technology
- in
- 4 yrs - new media skills
- 8 yrs - knowledge economy 16 yrs - new
organisations - 100 yrs -new universities
3Capacity/price forcomputers
the IT-revolution has barely started
4a completely different learning
Sender
Receiver
SEND
User
Producer
COLLECT
consequences??
5A Brand New Large Scale PBL-Web Course
Experiment
- Fall 97, 160 freshmen in engineering, first of 5
PBL-semesters at NTNU. - Integrating civil engineering topics in
IT-learning. - 18 professors and 12 student assistants.The
professors are advisers and learners. - Continuous professional evaluation .
- Cooperation with University of Stanford.
6ProjectBased Learning is a learning method
- the students are responsible for their own
learning - the teachers are advisers and consultants
- the students learn as they work with projects to
seek information and make it to knowledge.
7In ProjectBased Learningemployees and students
learn
- working in a team
- collaboration between teams
- that a team-member has to be competent in at
least one subject - that collaboration requires crossdisciplinary
insight by all in the team
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9Company 2000 IT-intro fall 1997
Learn about work in groups and presentation.
Understanding the course purpose and format.
Learn about WEB, data handling and publishing.
Web-presentation of their company in 2000.
A conceptual project model. Plans for time and
resources.
Learn about project work and planning.
Learn about Civil Eng. topics Area, water,
transport.
Plans and description of geotechnics, water,
roads and traffic
Learn about Civil Eng. topics Loads and design.
Description of design, loads, material choices
etc.
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11SOCRATES CDA - HERCULES Sustainable Coastal
Engineering and management
12HERCULES GROUP
- G THESSAL01 COORDINATOR Associate Professor
George BALAFOUTAS - D BRAUNSC01 Dr Ing Hans-Henning DETE
- DK ALBORG01 ssociate Professor Torben LARSEN
- F NANTES01 Professor Alain GROVELDr Paul FATAL
- IRL CORK01 Lecturer, Dr Antony W.LEWIS
- NL DELFT01 Dr Ir Jan VAN DER GRAAFF,
- UK LIVERPO01 Professor Brian A. O CONNOR
Lecturer Neil MacDONALD - N TRONDHE01 Professor Eivind BRATTELAND
- B GENT01 Professor Dr Ir Julien DE ROUCK
- E BARCELO03 Professor Agustin SANHEZ_ARCILLA,
- I MILANO02 Professor Giuseppe PASSONI
- I SALERNO01 Professor Eugenio CARRATELLI
- RO BUCUREST09 ..
13IF we are in the forefront of the development,
THEN
- we will feel comfortable in a fast changing world
- we will see forward to changes and be able to
promote the positive changes - there will be an optimistic attitude towards the
future, a future with opportunities in a
sustainable development
14THE ENDThank You!