Technology and Tools to Enhance Distributed Engineering Education

Use of digital ink technologies to facilitate student-teacher interaction in a German course for engineers

“…Durante las últimas décadas se han puesto de manifiesto, en muy diversos ámbitos, las enormes posibilidades educativas de los ordenadores personales. Ahora bien, el potencial de este tipo de dispositivos se incrementa de forma significativa cuando incorporamos, como elemento de la interfaz de usuario, un bolígrafo especial que produce tinta digital, dando nombre a las llamadas tecnologías de tinta digital (TTD) o "Pen-based Technologies" (AlRegib, 2008). El aspecto esencial de estas tecnologías, en comparación con otro tipo de entrada de datos (teclado o ratón), es que permiten generar información de forma muy natural, imitando la típica tarea de crear contenidos con bolígrafo y papel, pero de modo que pueda almacenarse en formato electrónico, con todas las ventajas que ello supone.…”

The Mosaic Camera: Streaming, Coding and Compositing Experiments

“…The conclusions and findings were quite similar in both cases. The main motivation behind using MPEG2 was the original implementation of this camera and system within a testbed to deliver multi-view-based distance learning across Georgia Tech campuses [10]. The testbed was based on MPEG2 and thus our empirical study in this paper is based on MPEG2.…”

Interactivity in education: An experience in the automatic control field

“…These methods allow the teachers to find innovative techniques to enhance the students motivation and improve their education: multimedia tools, hypertext systems, interactive systems, information exchange between teacher and student through the Internet, information access from any part of the world without temporal constraints, etc., where the biggest revolution has been produced by the World Wide Web (WWW). All these advantages are useful for subjects without a relevant practical component, but there exist other subjects with strong experimental contents that require a new element allowing the students to apply the acquired knowledge 2, 10. Traditionally, this element has been a local simulation tool or a local laboratory, used by the students to perform several practical exercises over real systems but with space and time constraints.…”