Teaching Standardization to Generation Z-Learning Outcomes Define Teaching Methods

Abstract

This chapter aims to provide more insight in specific aspects of teaching about standardization and addressed teaching methods to better teach in order to facilitate a new generation of students—generation Z—to learn about standardization. Adequate teaching methods for teaching about standardization are based on the desired learning outcomes. In standardization community, it seems that prevailing opinion is that education about standardization should result in general awareness about standards and standardization. However, the learning outcome of higher education about standardization should be significantly more ambitious than ‘raising awareness’. Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956), teaching methods that can be used to enhance Generation Z students learning about standardization are systematized at four levels of learning outcomes. Taking into account unique features of Generation Z students, content related to standardization and standards should be engaging as possible, based on real-world and global. Cooperation among universities, nontraditional providers of higher education, governments, industry and SDOs related education about standardization can be more closed to increasing efforts of many universities related to internationalization and third mission development.