{"id":37889,"key":"Engineering_teaching_resources_for_DIT","title":"Engineering teaching resources for DIT","latest":{"id":1207801,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T22:55:08Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Archived notice}}\n\nStarting soon (2013?), resources used in universities in Timor Leste (East Timor) must be in Portuguese, Tetun{{W|Tetum language}} (also called Tetum) or English. The language of the classroom must be Portuguese or Tetun.\n\nIndonesian translations can be available, and this will be important as:\n\n* There are few resources in Tetun and many students find English and Portuguese difficult.\n* Many young people do understand Indonesian, due to the recent history of Timor Leste and the availability of Indonesian television programs.\n\n== Needs ==\n\n''This section needs to be checked and corrected by people from Engineering at DIT, to be sure that it's an accurate description of their needs.''\n\n* '''Process for curriculum development''': Engineering at DIT has has a curriculum, but need a process for curriculum development\n* '''Learning resources:''' Students struggle with many subjects, and language challenges make this much harder. High quality learning, resources in a language the students understand, will help.\n* '''Contextualization:''' Adaptation of the curriculum to the needs and [[context]] of Timor Leste.\n\nTeaching resources are needed to support the curriculum in many subjects including: fluid mechanics, hydrology, water resource engineering, water supply, drainage, irrigation and infrastructure, soil mechanics/geotechnical engineering, road engineering, environmental engineering, sanitation.\n\nWhile many resources are available (e.g. English textbooks in the library) resources that are structured for a suitable course are more valuable.\n\n== Questions and possible solutions ==\n\n* Could we find suitable [[OpenCourseWare]] (OCW) resources in English and have them translated into Indonesian for students who need this?\n* Is it possible to translate resources into Tetun?\n** Could this be a collaborative exercise for students, to translate a small part of a key resource, from the English/Portguese/Indonesian versions? The process would help the students, and it would create Tetun resources for future classes. This raises some issues:\n*** Many technical terms do not exist in Tetun. Foreign terms may be used in italics in these cases.\n*** Internet is very slow in Dili, so using a web platform for collaborative translation may be hard. How about using a server in Dili, or even setting up the website/platform at the university?\n* Many resources exist in Indonesian. How are these for quality and effective learning? How do students find them?\n\n== Steps ==\n\nUse an OpenCourseWare search engine, e.g. [http://web.archive.org/web/20140704190129/http://opencontent.org:80/ocwfinder/ OpenCourseWare Finder], [http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ OCW Consortium] or [http://www.ocwsearch.com OCW Search]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}"}