This page contains the description of a very effective case study learning scenario and a corresponding demo. For a step by step instruction on how to implement this scenario go to About Cogit Case Study.
Aim: Support students who acquire a technique for analyzing case studies in a technical environment.
Precondition: Students have theoretical knowledge of analysis technique.
Five Phases:
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| The following example should give you an overview of the e-learning scenario based on a humoristic subject, the cooking of a fondue. |
A more serious but also more complex version is provided by the original creators of the scenario, the FE-Transfer Group.
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Ruined "fondue":
After 10 minutes at the table a fondue called "half & half" presents the following unwanted characteristics: large flakes of a clear liquid swims at its surface. The normally creamy liquid cheese has changed into a compact masse of gum like consistence. More detailed information is provided in supplementary material. Task: List the tasks for an examination allowing to analyse the flaws in the cooking procedure that is the cause of this disaster using the Cooking Disaster Analysis Method (CDAM).
Applying the CDAM the following steps are advised:
The pedagogical aims of this learning setting is to acquire the basic theoretical knowledge of an analyzing and problem solving method and to train its practical step by step procedure until it is mastered. These highly cognitive demands can in fact be trained in a learning process that starts with acquiring information and leads on to tentative constructions of solutions that are then compared to a sample solution in students' auto-critic which is submitted to a teacher's expertise who reacts with a feedback. In this process students remodel their conception of the solution in steps. Guided first by the task, than by a sample solution and finally by the teachers feedback. This three step learning process is strongly supporting students autonomous thinking and analyzing competencies.
The preparation and the first 2 steps of this learning setting can be automated and represented in a teaching tool. See their FET-demo for an admirable instance of an application that even supports the 3 step of the learning procedure.
To implement this scenario in Vista edutech has programmed a case study exercise tool allowing to support teachers and students through the 5 steps of the exercise. For more details go to About Cogit Case Study
If you plan to place several of these scenarios into one course, you will need to time their availability through the selective release. To see the Vista implementation described above go to our
Case Study Scenario Demo
and click onto "Vista Demos - FET Method Demo".
The idea of this scenario has been developed by and first implemented in the SVC-project Finite Element Analysis. See their FET-demo. Their new project eFBS currently develops an authoring tool Learning Pacemaker that will allow to implement their method in other subject areas independent of a learning platforms.
FE-Transfer : A computer and web based course for the application of finite element analysis in structure mechanics" In: 33rd International Symposium IGIP / IEEE / ASEE. September 2004, Fribourg , Switzerland. ISBN 2-9401156-28-X, p. 397-402.
Ingenieurprobleme lösen mit der FEM. von Peter Fritzsch. Der e-learning Kurs für die Anwendung der FEM im Maschinenbau und in der Strukturmechanik., FHA, Aargau, 2004.
Cours de post-formation sur l'application de la méthode des éléments finis de Bersier Jacques P., Fritzsche Peter, Wyrsch-Schwander Arnold . Dans: Flash inf ormatique. juin 2003, 5. Lausanne : EPFL. ISSN 1420-7192, p. 23-27.
