abstract

• Through the didactic design of sequential activities focused on recreating the ENIGMA machine, this work presents a proposal to improve higher-order thinking among engineering students. The encryption activity, as a core concept and activity in this didactic sequence, provides students with programming tools to learn in innovative and challenging ways. Using LabVIEW as a technological tool, the students advanced in their programming competencies. Besides cognitive competencies, this approach also aims to develop intrapersonal and transversal competencies. The learning environment in this research project was defined, designed, and analyzed within an action-research framework. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag France SAS, part of Springer Nature.

authors

• Cruz Ramírez S.R.
• García Martínez Moisés Barulio
• Olais-Govea J.M.

publication date

• 2021-01-01

funding provided via

• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, ITESM  Grant

published in

• International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing  Journal

keywords

• Action research framework; Educational innovation; ENIGMA machine; Higher education; Higher-order thinking Computer aided instruction; Students; Action research; Higher-order thinkings; LabViEW; Learning environments; Programming tools; Sequential activities; Technological tools; Cryptography

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s12008-021-00756-2

PubMed ID

start page

• 299

end page

• 316

volume

• 15

issue

• 02-mar