Thursday, June 14, 2007

DIDET project

The DIDTE project sets out to enhance student learning opportunities by enabling students to participate in engineering design team-based projects with a global aspect to them. To achieve this they developed LauLima, a customised wiki based system which includes a learning environment and digital library. They have a formal repository (digital library) which is a bank of completed projects, and informal wiki pages with images embedded (learning environment).

Students use the informal learning environment in a flexible way to record milestones related to their research, concept development and final design. Communication within the system is complementary to email. Tutors are able to assess student performance, to see if milestones are being reached and to provide feedback.

One of the benefits to the project is that it captures tacit design knowledge as part of the process of sharing through the digital library.

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