Tool based multimedia distance learning system for engineering education

Kondo, Hiroki; Ishijima, Shintaro

doi:10.1109/icsmc.1999.825264

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“…Kondo and Ishijima (1999) discuss a distance learning system for engineering education via the Internet, using multimedia technologies and mathematical tools for a course in control engineering. Lieberman and Cheung (2007) report on the development of remote-controlled laboratory exercises for their distance laser and fibre-optics engineering technology programme.…”

Section: Blended Instructional Strategies At Ouslmentioning

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Instructional Strategies in Teaching Engineering at a Distance: Faculty perspective

Ariadurai

Manohanthan

2008

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This paper presents research on a convenience sample of the Open University of Sri Lanka's engineering faculty. Examined in this research are faculty's opinions on the instructional strategies they use to teach engineering courses at a distance. First, this paper details the pedagogical strategies used by the faculty, which is then followed by an overview of faculty's opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of engineering courses offered by the Open University of Sri Lanka. Recommendations are given to improve the overall effectiveness of the engineering courses. It is anticipated the adoption of these recommendations will result in greater student competency and lower drop-out rates.

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Instructional Strategies in Teaching Engineering at a Distance: Faculty perspective

Ariadurai

Manohanthan

2008

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“…For example, Grimoni, Belico dos Reis, and Tori (1998) describe the success of using multimedia for their existing electrical engineering on-campus students. Kondo and Ishijima (1999) discuss a distance learning system for engineering education via the Internet, using multimedia technologies and mathematical tools for a course in control engineering. Lieberman and Cheung (2007) report on the development of remote-controlled laboratory exercises for their distance laser and fibre-optics engineering technology programme.…”

Section: Blended Instructional Strategies At Ouslmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2008

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and the US, and reviews of distance education developments in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. A new world of distance education (DE) is coming together in the developing world, as old media such as radio and the telephone merge with each other and the Internet to form wholly original interactive partnerships. So I now offer you a new piece of jargon, coined to pay respect to the creative return to older DE media: 'paradigm rollback'-you heard it here first! This odious but quite typical piece of verbiage signifies "a shift back to an idea whose time has come," as in the case of DE technologies supplanted for a while by the promise that the Internet would do the job better. I just looked the term up on Google, and find only one reference to it so far-in the conference presentation where I coined the term a week ago! Let's see how many references there are to 'paradigm rollback' a few months from now among those for whom jargon is all. .. The first paper by Stella Porto and Zane Berge discusses how DE is shaped by the socio-political context. Brazil is a developing country undergoing rapid globalization, yet much of its legislation remains rooted in past practices. Porto and Berge argue that legislation in Brazil is currently inimical to the deployment of public DE throughout the country. Private sector companies have stepped in to fill the void created by this problem, in the effort to serve employees' training needs. The downside of this trend, Porto and Berge argue, is that private sector efforts will widen the digital divide between Brazil's urban/ rural and rich/ poor. The socio-political theme is also pursued by Gerasimos Koustourakis, Chris Panagiotakopoulos, and Dimitris Vergidis in a study employing a Bersteinian theoretical framework at The Hellenic Open University (HOU). The work is grounded within the larger Greek geopolitical landscape, by showing that HOU was born with one foot in the DE world and the other in the traditional educational environment, and that this bifurcated approach is being used to inform other universities' DE practices throughout Greece. The authors argue that it may not be wise to use the HOU as an exemplar at this juncture, owing to the scant research so far conducted into the efficacy of its DE practices. The remaining main section papers are from North America. Sherry Piezon and William Ferree discuss Perceptions of Social Loafing in Online Learning Groups. The witty and thoughtprovoking concept of social loafing points to an entirely different form of online behaviour compared with that commonly described as 'lurking.' The paper discusses how students' 'loafing' can affect the process and outcomes of online learning, especially in group contexts. It is followed by a study of Online Self-Regulatory Learning Behaviors by Lucy Barnard, Valerie Paton and William Lan. These authors discuss how positive perceptions of online course communication and collaboration have been associated in the literature with better learning

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