Can we (control) Engineer the degree learning process?

27th International Conference on CADCAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future 2014

工业技术;机械制造

White, A.S.^1 ; Censlive, M.^1 ; Neilsen, D.^2

School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, Burroughs, Hendon NW44 BT, United Kingdom^1

Business Faculty, University of Greenwich, 30 Park Row, London SE10 9LS, United Kingdom^2

关键词: Current modeling;    Double-loop learning;    Education process;    Human-automation control;    Learning;    Learning process;    simulation;    Theoretic model;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/65/1/012033/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/65/1/012033

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

This paper investigates how control theory could be applied to learning processes in engineering education. The initial point for the analysis is White's Double Loop learning model of human automation control modified for the education process where a set of governing principals is chosen, probably by the course designer. After initial training the student decides unknowingly on a mental map or model. After observing how the real world is behaving, a strategy to achieve the governing variables is chosen and a set of actions chosen. This may not be a conscious operation, it maybe completely instinctive. These actions will cause some consequences but not until a certain time delay. The current model is compared with the work of Hollenbeck on goal setting, Nelson's model of self-regulation and that of Abdulwahed, Nagy and Blanchard at Loughborough who investigated control methods applied to the learning process.