Is off-campus engineering study off the agenda? Professional accreditation and distance education
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01/01/2008
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Resumo |
In engineering, distance/off-campus study is an essential element of access to education for those in remote locations and/or seeking to upgrade their qualifications via the lifelong learning route whilst employed. Internationally, engineering education accrediting bodies have moved toward outcomes-based assessment of graduate competency, but are still struggling to relinquish their historical attachment to the measurement of inputs. A genuinely outcomes-based accreditation system based on the demonstrated individual student attainment of appropriate graduate attributes (which might be delivered/gained by a range of means) offers the best way forward for an equitable, representative and socially just undergraduate engineering education system that encourages suitably qualified candidates from a range of social, employment, educational, gender, age and geographic circumstances to aspire to the professional sphere of the engineering workforce. Until outcomes-based education becomes the norm in engineering, it is likely that distance learners in engineering will face significant difficulties.<br /> |
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eng |
Publicador |
European Distance and E-Learning Network |
Relação |
http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30017806/palmer-isoffcampusengineeringstudy-2008.pdf http://www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/2008/Palmer_Hall.htm |
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2008, European Distance and E-Learning Network |
Palavras-Chave | #distance education #lifelong learning #mature age students #professional accreditation #graduate attributes #outcomes-based education |
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Journal Article |