Aims and Objectives
The goal of the DIDET project was to enhance student learning opportunities by enabling them to partake in global, team-based design engineering projects, in which they directly experience different cultural contexts and access a variety of digital information sources via a range of appropriate technology. To achieve this goal the project delivered on the following objectives.
- Teach engineering information retrieval, manipulation, and archiving skills to students studying on engineering degree programs
- Measure the use of those skills in design projects in all years of an undergraduate degree program
- Measure the learning performance in engineering design courses affected by the provision of access to information that would have been otherwise difficult to access
- Measure student learning performance in different cultural contexts that influence the use of alternative sources of information and varying forms of Information and Communications Technology
- Develop and provide workshops for staff development
- Use the measurement results to annually redesign course content and the digital libraries technology
