Conference Session

Energy Resources, Efficiency, and Conservation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarma Pisupati, Pennsylvania State University; Wendy Mahen, PennSylvania State University; Mark Deluca, Pennsylvania State University; Martin Gutowski, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

contentand made the course more fun. The impact of the highly interactive multimedia can beeasily seen in the enrollment. The enrollment in the online version has increased from 50during the first semester to 318 in the second semester and to 450 in its third semester ofoffering. It is also apparent that students liked the flexibility in schedule, pace andorganization.An important message that came out of this student feed back is that online courseinstructors should highly emphasize communication of course deadlines, expectations notjust once in the syllabus but multiple times in multiple ways to keep the studentsinformed. Most students liked audio explanations of numerical problems and otherfeedback. Following numerical problems online was