The main objective of engineering education is to cultivate students to possess capabilities demanded by industries. However, the demanded skills by industries largely falls into interdisciplinary experiences with creative thinking capability due to emerging competitive markets. Therefore, today’s engineering education should design some appropriate curricula to inspire students' critical thinking so as to foster their creativity in order to solve today’s sophisticated engineering problems. To achieve the purpose, based on creativity development theory, this study intends to design and develop the learning portfolio items constructed in the backend of a learning system according to learning objectives and teaching strategies of engineering project course. In the learning platform, by following the instructor's planning and guidance, students’ behaviors in their learning activities were recorded in the backend database. Those attributes, such as frequency, sequence, and association of learning behavior would be effectively identified through a structured arrangement and statistical analysis to discover those key activities in inspiring the students' creativity along with the creativity assessment results. According to the findings of this study, high creativity learners proceeded with active exploration more frequently in learning so as to independent thinking, resulting in better problem solving skills than lower creativity learners. As for the cognitive level, the high creativity learners frequently demonstrated their superiority in the problem analysis, and synthesis during the learning activity.
Prof. Ting Ting Wu is currently an Associate Professor and Director in Graduate School of Technological and Vocational Education at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Engineering Science at National Cheng Kung University in 2011. She received the MS degree in Information and Learning Technology from National University of Tainan in 2008. The academic research was focused on learning portfolio analysis, mobile and ubiquitous learning, information technology assisted instruction, and implementation and development of intelligent learning system in five years. She has published many international journal papers and conference papers. One of the journal papers (ET&S) was selected as 2013 & 2014 ISI Highly-Cited paper, and a total of fourteen conference paper won the best paper award. For now, she served as Director for Educational Technologies Research Center of Humanities and Applied Science and Secretary-General in Association of Taiwan Engineering Education and Management. In addition, she also passed an Information Technology Software Training project from Ministry of Education, and took charge of a Digital Reading Promotion project in Kaohsiung Bureau of Education. In 2014, Prof. Wu was awarded the Exceptional Academia-Industry Cooperation Awards by Chia Nan University of Pharmacy & Science. For now, Prof. Wu has research cooperation with Norway, China, Indonesia, the United States, and Slovenija.
Dr. Yueh-Min Huang received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona, respectively. He is currently a chair professor of the Department of Engineering Science and associate dean of Engineering College at National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan. His research interests include e-Learning, embedded systems and artificial intelligence. He has co-edited 3 books published by Springer Verlag and has published over 250 refereed journal papers. His works have received over 5000 Google citations in recent 5 years. Dr. Huang has received many research awards, including best paper awards, such as GCCCE2013 and national competition prizes, such as the first prize of ARM Code-O-Rama 2012. He is also a winner of the distinguished research award of the National Science Council, Taiwan in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Dr. Huang is in the editorial board of several SSCI- and SCI-indexed journals such as Interactive Learning Environments and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. He was the technical program chair of International Conference on Web-based Learning (2013) and the general chair of AECT International Conference on the Frontier in e-Learning Research 2013 (ICFER) and the e-Learning Forum Asia 2014. Dr. Huang became a Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS) in 2011 and a senior member of the IEEE.
Dr. Rustam Shadiev is the postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. His research interests include learning and instruction in online synchronous learning environment, human-computer interaction for collaboration, and speech to text recognition (STR) technology for learning.
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