Advanced Methods for Enhancing the Quality of Learning in a Society Cooperation Model for Innovation Education

Today’ s postmodern society especially has higher expectations of engineers to acquire abilities as innovative human resources. Innovation education, a new genre of education for engineers, is such a learning process that goes beyond the range of knowledge and experiences provided by traditional engineering education. To develop engineers with these required abilities, one type of active learning that experiences the process called Social Implementation has proved effective. Accordingly, we have designed numerous educational activities and implemented them in the learning process of imparting technology to society. Trial and subsequent improvements over nine years has revealed that information management skills, discussion and consensus-building skills, and evaluation skills and the learning methods to acquire those skills are critical. This paper introduces advanced learning methods based on situated cognition theories and the tools to further develop the quality of active learning for engineering students who strive to be innovators.