DATASET An evidence-based study on teaching computer aided design in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic

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The pandemic has had a major effect on engineering education, transforming both current and future teaching practices. The physical meetings between students and teachers have during the pandemic been replaced by online contact and recordings of lectures and demonstrations. In this paper, the focus is on computer-aided design (CAD) teaching for first-year engineering students. CAD is a topic usually characterized by close contact by students and teachers, with hands-on instruction at the computer using the CAD software. In the paper, the experiences and learnings from the rapid shift to online teaching in CAD are summarized and discussed, and learnings and takeaways for a redesign of future CAD teaching are discussed. Both students’ learning and mental wellbeing are evaluated. The findings are based on a student survey, existing literature, and the authors' own teaching practices during the pandemic.