The International Society For Engineering Pedagogy - Tatiana Polyakova - Bog

This book is dedicated to the history and contemporary activities of IGIP that occupies a unique position among world organizations who are focused on Engineering Education. We are currently in the process of transforming education at all levels. This applies in particular to the professional and academic education and training of engineers.To face these current real-world challenges, higher education has to find innovative ways to quickly respond to these new needs. This and completely new technologies in education require specifically new and adapted approaches in Engineering Pedagogy.
This book is a continuation of IGIP¿s tradition to summarize and analyze intermediate results and foresee the main trends of further development of Engineering Pedagogy. It is written for the 50th anniversary of IGIP and contains valuable historic information as well as memories and opinions of IGIP members and specialists in Engineering Pedagogy.
This book is intended for teachers at technical colleges and universities, students, post-graduates, administrative staff of educational institutions, staff of state educational ministries and committees, members of other societies with interest in Engineering Education, staff of personnel agencies, and everyone who is interested in Engineering Education and Pedagogy.

Interested readership includes furthermore policymakers, academic researchers in pedagogy and learning theory, schoolteachers, the learning industry, further and continuing education lecturers, etc.