Active Learning based on Research for Linear Optimization Course at Department of Mathematics, Univeristas Padjadjaran

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10.2991/icaet-14.2014.12How to use a DOI?

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Active learning, linear optimization

Abstract

Linear Optimization (LO) course is one of the important courses in Industrial Mathematics (IM) and Operations Research (OR) field of applied mathematics. As the curricula now change into a competency based curricula, thus the instructional objective, course content, and approaches of teaching have to be improved. We refer to Cochran (2009) in evaluating our pedagogy in teaching Linear Optimization. At Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran Indonesia, especially for LO course, we plan to implement a student center learning using an active learning based on research for the coming academic year 2014/2015. Moazeni (2012) mentioned that, based on Liebman (1998), there are ten activities to promote active learning when teaching undergraduate OR courses, i.e., taxonomies, similarities and differences, forms and functions, advantages and disadvantages, type 1 frames, type 2 frames, concept mapping, metaphor and analogy, rehearsal, and advance organizer for instructor activity. These ten activities can be applied both in individual student activities in the classroom or group activities, in which case it is called as collaborative active learning. This collaborative active learning is recommended by Lasdon and Liebman (1998) to teach nonlinear programming. In this paper, we discuss how we adopt these ten activities in our teaching activity for the Linear Optimization course in our department. We also present how we introduce the students some results of our research on linear optimization application, i.e., in forestry tactical planning problem and vaccination strategy problem as real life example of the course applications.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Diah Chaerani
AU  - Stanley P. Dewanto
PY  - 2015/01
DA  - 2015/01
TI  - Active Learning based on Research for Linear Optimization Course at Department of Mathematics, Univeristas Padjadjaran
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Advances in Education Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 58
EP  - 61
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icaet-14.2014.12
DO  - 10.2991/icaet-14.2014.12
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