Didactic concept for the mediation of sustainable value creation within the framework of problembased engineering education

Masterarbeit, Fachbereich Nachhaltige Unternehmensentwicklung, 98 Seiten, engl.

Summary:

Sustainability is a major challenge for the global community. In the long term, it will not be enough to meet this challenge only in a technological way. There is and will be the need to raise awareness for sustainability, and to gain and foster new forms of social learning to have better educated consumers.

A relatively new approach to mediation in engineering education are the so-called maker spaces. Maker spaces are open workshops that aim to provide individuals with access to production equipment and with the knowledge of modern industrial production processes for one-of-a-kind products. But until now the topic of sustainability has hardly come into play in this combination of mediation and value creation.

The aim of this thesis is the planning and development of a didactic concept for the mediation of sustainable value creation in engineering education using maker spaces as learning environments. The concept to be developed should be oriented towards the approach of problem-based learning and shall foster self-regulated learning processes. Particular consideration should be given to the mediation of engineering-educational content and to incorporate this exemplarily into the concept. In detail the following points shall be elaborated:

• State of the art research about (1) engineering education, (2) mediation of sustainable value creation, (3) learning and (4) didactics.

• Examination of influencing factors which are crucial for the learner’s success and learning outcome.

• Developing a didactic concept for engineering education using the approach of problembased learning in the environment of maker spaces to foster the mediation for sustainability.

The work on this task must be carried out in constant contact with the supervising assistant.