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Currently, almost all Spanish Universities offer their students access to a virtual campus consisting essentially of one or more e-learning platforms, which contain the educational material of most of the subjects taught at the university. Although the aim of these e-learning platforms is the learning in virtual format, mainly they are used by the teachers to supplement the lectures (b-learning)....
The interactive technical electronic book, TechEBook, currently under development at the University of Central Florida (UCF), provides a useful tool for engineers and scientists through unique features compared to the most used traditional electrical circuit textbooks available in the market. TechEBook has comprised the two worlds of classical circuit books and an interactive operating platform such...
The author deals with e-learning at University of Hradec Králové on the Faculty of Informatics and Management in the Czech Republic. In the second and third part of the article there is the description of main tools in WebCT and ways of students' motivation in the course Business theory and the chosen elements of the constructivism. The fourth part summarizes and analyzes the evaluative questionnaire...
A learning and teaching methodology is implemented, in a Mechanical Engineering course that comprises several distributed learning and assessed activities that make use of active and collaborative learning as well as peer review and assessment. A company Learning Management System (LMS) is used to promote peer learning and continuous assessment throughout the course. Pedagogy assumes a key role although...
The main objective of this research is to explore the results of the use of videos as an educational tool which helps increasing students' motivation in any discipline. The study is based on several streaming videos created as a support material for learning and used by 12 lecturers with 487 students in three different degrees of engineering (Mechanical, Industrial and Management, and Aeronautical)...
Recently, many educational institutions have acknowledged the importance of making laboratories available on-line, allowing their students to run experiments from a remote computer. While usage of virtual laboratories scales well, remote experiments, based on scarce and expensive rigs, i.e. physical resources, do not and typically can only be used by one person or cooperating group at a time. It is...
Making online laboratories available to the wider public requires them to be retrievable and reusable. To this end, we define a metadata set providing all required information in a machine readable form. This article presents the metadata set currently under discussion by the Global Online Lab Consortium (GOLC) as well as the issues of defining widely acceptable controlled vocabularies to describe...
The paper deals with the eLearning and its potential at the university level of education. The students' point of view is highlighted. The core of the contribution forms a quantitative-qualitative research. The research was based on a comparison of students' attitudes and evaluation of the demandingness of one selected university course. Data were gained in the traditional face-to-face lessons and...
We are developing a system that can embed algebraic manipulations, mathematical formulas and graphs in web pages without any plug-ins by using a mashup approach. The web page loaded from any web sites as a learning management system (or loaded as a local file) can embed algebraic manipulations and visualize mathematical formulas using MathML by accessing an external web application server which provides...
The Game·Tel project has arisen as a way take advantage of the possibilities of gaming in collaborative learning environments. In this paper we study the platform developed for Game·Tel on the basics of recently published specification IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability. An analysis on the functionalities of Game·Tel brings up some requirements that cannot be fulfilled by IMS Basic Learning...
The Virtual Centre for Enterprise (VCE) is a virtual education centre for the development of entrepreneurial skills and competencies. The centre provides intensive vocational courses (e-learning modules), for (primarily) employed learners. The VCE provides learners with the opportunity to develop their competencies in small pieces (steps) as part of an overall learning strategy. The providers of e-learning...
Three sets of teaching tools developed for Civil Engineering students are presented in this paper. The first is a didactic test frame for structural mechanics and its virtual replica. The second is an outfit for small scale seepage studies. The third is a set of portable devices for visual demonstration of several phenomena of interest for introductory soil mechanics classes.
The analysis of the scientific literature available on the types of general competences and their classification caused the authors to conclude that it is necessary to implement interdisciplinary approach in engineering education to develop competences necessary for engineers to make them competitive in the labour market. The attention should be paid to a professional foreign language, computer literacy...
This paper investigates the use of virtual teams in delivering key graduate attributes to engineering students studying via distance education. The course uses a Problem Based Learning approach where students work in teams to solve open ended, contextualised engineering problems. The team members are distributed across Australia and the world and have no face to face contact. They communicate solely...
In Tunisia, students learn the module preparation to Computer Science and Internet Certificate PC2i in the license's first year, using the online platform Moodle. Selection criteria of students able to obtain the certificate C2i, delivered by the Virtual University of Tunis VUT, are based on students' marks in their exams. This work presents a new approach to classify students able to obtain the certificate...
In 2005 an integrated blended e-learning service based on Moodle Learning Management System (LMS), was introduced in Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland. Review of LMS content shows that some courses contain insufficient number of components, and in many cases the quality of resources is poor. The goal of our research was to identify why some teachers are reluctant to utilize LMS. A...
Digital Signal Processors is an optional course in the Audiovisual Engineering Degree of the University of Alicante. This year a pilot project on developing a blog for the course has been introduced (http://blogs.ua.es/pds0910). This way, students must complete - working collaboratively- a set of assigned blog entries on different extension tasks related to the concepts taught in the theory sessions...
The present article analyses the research results of the effectiveness of a comparatively new but a widely studied learning method - action research - in e-learning project-based (PBL) group studies. The objective of the article is to identify the main principles of collaborative work in an e-learning environment: (1) what effect the students' involvement in the action research method which is based...
Recently, a new age of information has appeared where information and communication technology plays a major role in education and learning society. Consequently, modern learning settings represented by emerging learning strategies have been used in higher education. A primary goal for higher education is to support students and lifelong learners to be independent, self-motivated, and self-regulated...
The International Telematic University Uninettuno organizes an ICT Engineering distance degree course in cooperation with the Helwan University (Il Cairo, Egypt) since 2006. The use of e-learning didactic allows to Egyptian students to study at home or in the Technological Pole of the Helwan University and to take a double degree, one recognized in Italy and all Europe and the other in Egypt. After...
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