Problems of Motivation of Students to Study Compulsory Subject “Engineering Graphics”

Engineering Graphics BALTGRAF 2013: Scientific Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Engineering Graphics 2013
Zoja Veide, Veronika Stroževa, Modris Dobelis

Paper deals with a problem on how to raise an interest to the students during preparation for practical training exercises and individual home assignments in the course of Descriptive Geometry and Engineering Graphics. The methods of teaching used for the decades should be reviewed taking into account a new generation of students, their habits of learning and the existing challenges provided by contemporary information technologies. An attempt was made to create new educational materials which would motivate the students to work autonomously with the theoretical materials. An Augmented Reality (AR) based applications were used to entertain the students during the studies of the development of spatial reasoning in the first year studies. The efficiency of the regular tests on understanding the theoretical issues of descriptive geometry and engineering graphics was evaluated. For this purpose a portal ORTUS of Riga Technical University (RTU) was used. ORTUS – a multifunctional educational portal developed by IT Department of RTU – links together all the individual online applications required for studies within one framework in order to simplify the use of it and have a single access. As one of the numerous modules in this portal is a Moodle based Learning Management System. The recommended study materials like theoretical lectures, examples of completed graphic exercises, video lectures, didactic toolkit for development of spatial skills and tests are available to the students online with individual authorization. An approach used was supposed to facilitate the students to acquire more practical skills in solving graphic exercises and improve the quality of graphic education.

Keywords
Engineering Graphics, Moodle Learning System, Augmented Reality
Hyperlink
http://www.baltgraf2013.rtu.lv/sites/default/files/baltgraf/baltgraf/baltgraf2013_ScientificProceedings.pdf#page=237

Veide, Z., Stroževa, V., Dobelis, M. Problems of Motivation of Students to Study Compulsory Subject “Engineering Graphics”. In: Engineering Graphics BALTGRAF 2013: Scientific Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Engineering Graphics, Latvia, Rīga, 5-7 June, 2013. Riga: Riga Technical University, 2013, pp.237-242. ISBN 9789934507304.

Publication language
English (en)