Conference Session

Virtual and Web Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard A. Davis, University of Minnesota Duluth

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

, promote student understanding and help them gauge their individualprogress.Students engage with the online course via the electronic course management platform Moodle11.Moodle serves as a repository and delivery system of digital documents and web pages for thecourse syllabus, grades, exercises, readings, videos, as well as uploading student work. Studentsaccess the Moodle course site using their university login identification. The approach of ouronline course is not specific to the Moodle platform, and may be readily adapted to other onlinecourse management platforms. Students earn one semester credit for the online coop course,which represents three hours of academic work per week (including fieldwork), averaged overthe term. Thus, students

Conference Session

Virtual and Web Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Liberatore, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

in the semester (as reading assignments are due at8am preceding the 11am class time). After the second assignment where fewer studentsparticipated, the instructors reiterated the syllabus, which included 5% of the total course gradebeing awarded for participating in the zyBook. Next, the participation jumped to nearly thewhole class with ninety students completely finishing Sections 1.7 to 1.9, eleven studentspartially completing the assignment, and only 4 students not completing the reading. Overall,data from the entire semester will be included in the talk. 1.7to1.9 ZyBookSections 1.3to1.6 0