Work in Progress: Providing Continuing Education for Teachers in the Dominican Republic Using Online Modules Developed through a First Year Capstone Project

摘要

Two professors (from engineering and education) and students from a variety of engineering disciplines (engineering education, mechanical, electrical, and civil) from Ohio Northern University have traveled to the Dominican Republic for the past two years to run workshops involving inexpensive, hands-on engineering projects for teachers in both public and private (sponsored) schools. This effort is a different take on the IEEE Teacher In Service Program (TISP), which is normally designed to train engineers to hold in-service workshops for teachers using lesson plans available from tryengineering.org. Due to the limited availability of practicing engineers in the Dominican, the team worked directly with the teachers.