#35 Siara Isaac and Joelyn de Lima from EPFL Switzerland on 3T Play Transversal Skills

There continues to be a growing focus on the need for engineering students to develop transversal skills. There are a number of barriers which can stifle efforts in teaching such skills and approaches increasingly focus on developing engineering educators’ ability to integrate a diverse set of skills with technical knowledge.In this episode we speak to Siara Isaac and Joelyn de Lima, part of the 3T Play project (funded by the Lego Foundation) team from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), who focused on the use of tangible objects and playfulness to support the learning process and support skills development.Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Dr. Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) to learn about the approaches to embedding trasversal skills within engineering education!Timestamps0.00 Welcome and introduction to episode0.22 Podcast Intro0.48 Experiences with transversal skills from Natalie and Neil3.18 Introduction to Siara and Joelyn and the wider 3T Play project team5.15 The start of the 3T Play project at EPFL7.22 What are transversal skills?9.31 The significance of transversal skills and why they should be explicitly taught11:18 The views of instructors and barriers to teaching transversal skills16:48 The Trident Model: Knowing, Experiencing and Learning from Experience22:47 The role of tangible objects24:40 Applying the model to a skill29:42 Flexibility to change interventions to suit the audience34:12 Conditions which help students to develop transversal skills through experiential learning39:16 Process level feedback41:56 Developing the handbook as a resource47:35 What types and level of students are these activities approriate for?50:50 The layout of the book and the chapters56:50 The impact of the project 59:34 Key Takeaways from Siara and Joelyn1:02:23 Key takeaways from Natalie and Neil Further Reading The link to the open access resource can be found herehttps://www.epflpress.org/produit/1542/9782832322895/teaching-transversal-skills-for-engineering-studentsJoin us! Become a member of the European Society for EngineeringEducation, SEFI, Europe's largest network of engineeringeducators: www.sefi.bemusic (c) Lizzie Cooke all rights reserved. Written and produced by Neil Cooke and Natalie Wint. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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