Discovery learning approach to classic electrical machines principles

Abstract

This paper aims at presenting the concept of Socratic interactions and discovery learning of classic electrical machines principles. The theories of electrical machines are by nature quite boring and abstract although there are a lot of experiments supported the theories. Traditional, students learnt the subject by drill and practice approach with standard textbooks. In the past two decades, computer is no doubt recognized to be the educational tool. The so-called ''interactive'' approach is applied to the learning process. Most of this approach applied to various subjects in different levels is mainly based on drill and practice. However, few packages are developed for electrical machine subject. In this paper, two different approaches ''Rote Learning'' and ''Discovery Learning'' applied to the interactive computer aided learning package of classic electric machine principles are discussed. Design of a discovery learning approach will also be presented.