Affiliation:
1. Institute of Applied Mechanics, Graz Center of Computational Engineering (GCCE) Graz University of Technology Graz Austria
2. Private University College of Teacher Education Augustinum (PPH Augustinum) Graz Austria
3. Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science Graz University of Technology Graz Austria
Abstract
AbstractSolving exercise problems by yourself is a vital part of developing a mechanical understanding. Yet, most mechanics lectures have more than 200 participants, so the workload for manually creating and correcting assignments limits the number of exercises. The resulting example pool is usually much smaller than the number of participants, making verifying whether students can solve problems themselves considerably harder. At the same time, unreflected copying of tasks already solved does not foster the understanding of the subject and leads to a false self‐assessment. We address these issues by providing a scalable approach for creating, distributing, and correcting exercise assignments for problems related to statics, strength of materials, dynamics, and hydrostatics. The overall concept allows us to provide individual exercise assignments for each student. A quantitative survey among students of our recent statics lecture assesses the acceptance of our teaching tool. The feedback indicates a clear added value for the lecture, which fosters self‐directed and reflective learning.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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