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PeTEX@Work: Designing CSCL@Work for Online Engineering Education

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This chapter reflects on the finalized EU-funded project PeTEX-platform for e-Learning and Telemetric Experimentation aimed at designing and prototyping a CSCL platform-system for developing, implementing, and delivering educational and training programs in the field of manufacturing engineering. The main challenge for the PeTEX project team was to transform actual laboratory test beds, domain specific content and social interaction modes into a web-mediated socio-technical system in order to bring together learning and workplace as CSCL@Work. The designed learning system is based on Moodle and includes distributed tele-operated experimentation facilities, educational content and socio-technical affordances to provide the basis for an international large-scale online learning community. For this purpose the project team developed and established new collaborative learning approaches for students and professionals within the ICT-based system. This chapter gives an overview on the fundamental theoretical principles as well as important steps and results of the participatory design approach applied during the project’s lifetime. It concludes with a set of new tasks and challenges to be considered in future systems.

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Acknowledgments

The PeTEX team would like to thank: Dr.-Ing. habil. S. Chatti, TU Dortmund University (IUL), and Dr.-Ing. U. Dirksen, Poynting GmbH, Dortmund, Germany as well as Prof. Dr. J. Wildt, M. Heiner, K. Heyder, M. Schaefer, TU Dortmund University (ZHB), and Prof. F. Micari, Prof. E. Lo Valvo, Prof. L. Fratini, Ph.D., R. Licari, Ph.D., G. Buffa, Department of Mechanical Technology, Production and Management Engineering (DTMPIG), University of Palermo, Italy, Prof. M. Nicolescu, P. Johansson, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Department for Production Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden for their great cooperation during the project. Furthermore, we thank M. Spiess, M. Sappok, S. Grunert, M. Hoffrichter, TU Dortmund University (IUL), and N. Karacan from TU Dortmund University (HDZ) for elaborate web-­authoring with LernBar and Moodle; Dr. P. Ilyes, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Germany (Science and Technology Studies, Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology) for strong support; S. Voss, D. Weiß, A. Mereu, C. Bremer, R. Müller, A. Tillmann, and Prof. Dr. D. Krömker from studium-digitale—Central eLearning-Facility of Goethe-University Frankfurt/Germany for providing and supporting us with LernBar.

And last but not least we sincerely thank all our friends and colleagues (including us) at TeachING-LearnING.EU—the first subject center for engineering education in Germany—for great cooperation and support taking over new research and design projects in the field of online engineering education.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. Project-code: 142270-LLP-1-2008-1-DE-LEONARDO-LMP.

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  1. Center for Higher Education (zhb) / Engineering Education Research Group, TU Dortmund University, Vogelpothsweg 78, Dortmund, 40221, Germany

    Claudius Terkowsky, Dominik May & Thorsten Jungmann

  2. Department of Applied Educational Science, Interactive Media and Learning, Umeå University, Umeå, 90178, Sweden

    Isa Jahnke

  3. Institute of Forming Technology and Lightweight Construction (IUL) / Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, TU Dortmund University, Baroper Str. 301, Dortmund, 44227, Germany

    Christian Pleul & A. Erman Tekkaya

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Terkowsky, C., Jahnke, I., Pleul, C., May, D., Jungmann, T., Tekkaya, A.E. (2013). PeTEX@Work: Designing CSCL@Work for Online Engineering Education. In: Goggins, S., Jahnke, I., Wulf, V. (eds) Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning at the Workplace. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1740-8_13

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