Resumen de Designing hands-on teaming activities: exploring sustainability tradeoffs for courses with large enrollments
Gregory B. Williams, Lisa D. Mcnair, Erin D. Crede, Marie C. Paretti, Janis P. Terpenny
In this paper, the authors explore sustainability issues that exist in the development of hands-on activities for classes with largeenrollments. Specifically, the authors study four different team-building activities, all with varying levels of resource commitment, toassess potential tradeoffs between cost, environmental impact, and learning objectives pertaining to design and teaming. Faced withseveral alternatives and multiple, conflicting objectives, the authors approach this choice from a design context. Specifically, followingthe identification of activity constraints and objectives, activity alternatives are evaluated against several metrics with post-activitystudent surveys. Survey data is then translated into an appropriate input for a systematic selection framework, the selection DecisionSupport Problem. The use of this framework allows the authors to select a teaming activity alternative that offers the best compromiseto their multiple design goals.
