Conference Session

CPD - Engineering Education K - Life

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhili (Jerry) Gao; Virendra Varma, Missouri Western State University; Christiana Houck, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

students to experience the ease of use and the power of the technology. Figure 1shows the homepage of course WebCT. The navigation includes Start Here, Syllabus, CourseContent, Assignments, Communications, Quizzes and Exams as well as student grade tool.Start Here section provides students with the animations on how to view lecture notes and how touse discussion board as shown in Figure 2. This is extremely useful in the first two weeks.Syllabus section, shown in Figure 3, provides students two formats (Word and HTML) of coursesyllabus, tentative schedule of topics, and key academic dates. Tentative schedule of topicsserves as a pace tool for students self-study but students can make their own schedule. The keydeadline reminder is also dynamically