DLSU CE paper by Oreta, Valerio and Valdez as best paper at ICEE-PHIL 2022

The 8th International Conference on Engineering Education – Philippines 2022 (ICEE-Phil 2022) was held on December 9-10, 2022 at the Verdue, HSSH, De La Salle University, Manila. The two-day conference was graced by the president of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Dr. Jenna Carpenter. 

 Engr. Daniel Valerio presented the paper co-authored with Dr. Andres Winston Oreta and Engr. Raineir Valdez at the Parallel Session B on Dec. 10, 2022. The paper, “Hybrid adaptation of teaching and learning strategies for a civil engineering course on structural analysis” was announced as the best paper for session B during the closing ceremony.

HYBRID ADAPTATION OF TEACHING AND LEARNING STRATEGIES

FOR A CIVIL ENGINEERING COURSE ON STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Andres Winston C. Oreta, Daniel Nichol R. Valerio, Rainier Lawrence Valdez

Abstract 

Schools have started to return to a face-to-face or onsite mode in the delivery of course as the pandemic gradually becomes manageable. At De La Salle University, Manila, for Academic Year 2022-2023, most of the major lecture-based courses will be delivered through a hybrid mode where a three-unit lecture course with two meetings per week will be delivered onsite for one meeting and online in the other meeting. Because of this hybrid set-up, the teacher is now challenged on how to adapt the teaching and learning strategies and materials used under a pure online platform for the past two years during the pandemic.  This paper presents a summary of the adaptation of the course, CESTRUC or Theory of Structures to a hybrid teaching and learning platform. Specifically, the revised syllabus and the various teaching and learning activities (TLA) implemented onsite and online to assure that students learn, understand and master the course will be presented. A preliminary survey on the effectiveness of the adapted syllabus and various teaching and learning activities was conducted.