#35 Siara Isaac and Joelyn de Lima from EPFL Switzerland on 3T Play Transversal Skills

There continues to be a growing focus on the need for engineering students to develop transversal skills. There are a number of barriers which can stifle efforts in teaching such skills and approaches increasingly focus on developing engineering educators’ ability to integrate a diverse set of skills with technical knowledge.

In this episode we speak to Siara Isaac and Joelyn de Lima, part of the 3T Play project (funded by the Lego Foundation) team from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), who focused on the use of tangible objects and playfulness to support the learning process and support skills development.

Join Dr. Natalie Wint (University College London) and Dr. Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) to learn about the approaches to embedding trasversal skills within engineering education!

Timestamps

0.00 Welcome and introduction to episode

0.22 Podcast Intro

0.48 Experiences with transversal skills from Natalie and Neil

3.18 Introduction to Siara and Joelyn and the wider 3T Play project team

5.15 The start of the 3T Play project at EPFL

7.22 What are transversal skills?

9.31 The significance of transversal skills and why they should be explicitly taught

11:18 The views of instructors and barriers to teaching transversal skills

16:48 The Trident Model: Knowing, Experiencing and Learning from Experience

22:47 The role of tangible objects

24:40 Applying the model to a skill

29:42 Flexibility to change interventions to suit the audience

34:12 Conditions which help students to develop transversal skills through experiential learning

39:16 Process level feedback

41:56 Developing the handbook as a resource

47:35 What types and level of students are these activities approriate for?

50:50 The layout of the book and the chapters

56:50 The impact of the project

59:34 Key Takeaways from Siara and Joelyn

1:02:23 Key takeaways from Natalie and Neil

Further Reading

The link to the open access resource can be found here

https://www.epflpress.org/produit/1542/9782832322895/teaching-transversal-skills-for-engineering-students

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