{"id":2314,"date":"2025-05-28T22:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/?page_id=2314"},"modified":"2025-05-28T22:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:49:30","slug":"special-track-on-grand-challenges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/special-track-on-grand-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL TRACK ON GRAND CHALLENGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_image et_pb_image_0\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/05\/banner-V6-1024x732-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"banner-V6-1024x732\" class=\"wp-image-2282\" \/><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_row et_pb_row_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_block_row\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et-last-child et_block_column\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_module et_d4_element et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p><strong>Facilitating Learning and Teaching in a Common Core Course on Grand Challenges: A Blended Learning Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eddie Ng<\/p>\n<p>With the growing awareness of engineering grand challenges that we are facing in the 21st century, there is an increasing interest in developing new courses to nurture professionals for dealing with these challenges. Grand challenges are complex problems which often require multi-disciplinary knowledge. To prepare the next generation of professionals for the challenges, a common core course is designed to develop students\u2019 abilities to identify relevant issues and explore engineering solutions collaboratively in solving these open-ended problems. As a common core course, students from different academic disciplines will be enrolled in the course and to work in teams to formulate solutions that address the challenges through making use of the diverse expertise from their disciplines of study. In the meantime, however, students from different disciplines naturally have different learning styles and levels of understanding on a challenge topic. To facilitate learning and teaching in this course, a blended learning approach is adopted. In addition to guest lectures, online learning resources, face-to-face teaching, and peer learning, a learning approach called structured controversy is also adopted to enable students to be engaged in interactive learning experiences. Furthermore, a peer learning model is applied to facilitate face-to-face teaching. Pre- and post-course surveys are conducted. The results of the course surveys are good resources to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grand Challenge Tech+ Innovator Program of Sungkyunkwan University Hub Center<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sung-Jin Song<\/p>\n<p><strong>Engineering a Holistic Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mushtak Al-Atabi<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13172,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2314","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2314\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.utm.my\/cee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}