Evolving Higher Education: Teaching the Engineering Student of Today

Date: Tuesday 12th December 2023  I Time: 12pm  I Duration: 60 minutes

Evolving Higher Education: Teaching the Engineering Student of Today

Following on from the success of our Evolving Higher Education virtual conference in March this year, we are putting on a series of webinars looking in more depth at how Higher Education is, or needs to be, evolving in individual disciplines.

What do we mean by ‘Teaching the Engineering Student of Today’? 

It’s not just about keeping up with changes to engineering as a discipline or a subject; of course you do that with your teaching, and of course our content aims to keep pace with developments in theory, ethics and practice.

Navigating contemporary challenges

It’s more about acknowledging and adapting to the different environment in which we operate today as opposed to even 5, 10 years ago.  One in which technology facilitates our lives in so many different ways and yet we are busier than ever.  One in which students have grown up with fast-paced, interactive, short-form media that has stolen their attention away from books and eaten away at their reading skills. In which learning has yet to fully recover from the disruption of the pandemic, and in which students are often juggling learning with part-time work and other responsibilities.

Add onto this the increased demand for students to come away from university not only with knowledge and theory but ready to hit the ground running, with understanding and experience of how what they have learned can be applied in practical terms to solve real-life problems. In a complex area of study such as introductory engineering, where students are expected to be polymaths, how can you play to each students needs and still have time for research, or maintaining a work-life balance?

Partnering with McGraw Hill as a solution

Join our webinar ‘Evolving Higher Education: Teaching the Engineering Students of Today’ to find out how McGraw Hill content and courseware can help ensure your students are better prepared; keep track of students’ progress (and their weak areas); support students who need to improve their fundamental maths and physics skills; test their knowledge and give instant feedback; help them develop problem solving skills and understand how the theory can be applied in a multitude of real-life situations… and much more.

Hear from Dr John Mulvihill, University of Limerick, and Dr Francesco del Giudice, Swansea University, about their experiences using McGraw Hill’s Connect platform and ALEKS courseware to help them work with students more effectively and efficiently – outsourcing to technology where it makes sense to do so, so that they are able to focus on deepening learning.

Register today:

Date: Tuesday 12th December 2023

Time: 12pm

Duration: 60 minutes

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