The influence of a non-linear lecturing approach on student attention: Implementation and assessment

This paper presents a change made to the lecturing approach used within a specific course. The new lecturing approach is based on a non-linear structure where each lesson combines concepts from different topics, in contrast to the traditional linear structure in which each topic is treated separately. The objective of the non-linear approach is to increase student dynamism and motivation and to foster teacher-student dialog. Assessments from students who were taught according to the traditional linear structure along with assessments from students who were taught under both the linear and non-linear approaches are presented. Results show that the non-linear lecturing approach was welcomed and led to a higher degree of student dynamism and motivation and to more tea-cher-student dialog.

• Autores: Merideno Labayen, Inaki; Antón, Raúl; G. Prada, Jorge
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2015
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/67644
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/67644; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/68673/
• Palabra clave: 62 Ingeniería y operaciones afines / Engineering; Engineering education; non-linear approach; teaching mechanical engineering.; Educación ingenieril; enfoque no-lineal; docencia en ingeniería mecánica.
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional