COVID-19疫情期间工程在线教育的观察研究
An Observational Study of Engineering Online Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
摘要：
虽然在线教育已成为许多领域高等教育的一个可行的主要组成部分，但其在工程学科的就业一直受到限制。COVID-19疫情迫使传统的面对面教学在全球范围内突然转变为在线形式。这种突然变化的负面影响是不可否认的。需要紧急和仔细的规划，以减轻流行病对工程教育的负面影响，特别是对弱势，弱势和代表性不足的学生，他们必须应对额外的挑战（例如数字公平差距）。为了在大流行时期加强工程在线教学，我们在加州州立大学长滩分校（一所为少数族裔服务的机构）进行了一项观察性研究。来自六个工程系的110名教师和627名学生参加了我们的调查，并回答了定量和定性问题，以突出他们在2020年春季在线教学期间遇到的挑战。在这项工作中，我们详细介绍了这些调查的结果，并提出了解决方案，以解决所发现的问题，包括后勤，技术，学习/教学的挑战，评估方法和实践培训。随着疫情持续，与其他教育工作者分享这些成果有助于更有效地规划和选择最佳实践，以改善COVID-19期间及以后的在线工程教育。
英文摘要：
Although online education has become a viable and major component of higher education in many fields, its employment in engineering disciplines has been limited. COVID-19 pandemic compelled the global and abrupt conversion of conventional face-to-face instruction to the online format. The negative impact of such sudden change is undeniable. Urgent and careful planning is needed to mitigate pandemic negative effects on engineering education, especially for vulnerable, disadvantaged, and underrepresented students who have to deal with additional challenges (e.g. digital equity gap). To enhance engineering online instruction during the pandemic era, we conducted an observational study at California State University, Long Beach (a minority-serving institution). 110 faculty and 627 students from six engineering departments participated in our surveys and answered quantitative and qualitative questions to highlight the challenges they experienced during the online instruction in Spring 2020. In this work, we present the results of these surveys in detail and propose solutions to address the identified issues including logistical, technical, learning/teaching challenges, assessment methods, and hands-on training. As the pandemic continues, sharing these results with other educators can help with more effective planning and choice of best practices to improve the online engineering education during COVID-19 and beyond.
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