Teaching Strength Of Materials Using Web Based, Streaming Video, And Interactive Video Technologies

Abstract

This presentation examines the results obtained during the second year of a three-year project funded by a General Electric Fund grant, on the effectiveness of new instructional technologies in the teaching of basic engineering courses. During the first year of the project only the statics courses were taught as part of the project, while in the second year, both statics and strength of materials courses were included in the project. Only the experiences from the Basic Strength of Materials courses are reported here.

Use Of In Class Streaming Of Material In Engineering

“…The UC College of Engineering recently completed a study funded by the General Electric Foundation in which three learning technologies were evaluated using a conventional chalkboard lecture as a control 5 . The technologies included in the study were remote teleconferencing, a web assisted lecture format, and a web-based streaming-media lecture format.…”