Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edmundo Tovar, Polytechnic University, Montegancedo; Nelson Piedra, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja; Manuel Castro, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia; Martin Llamas, Universidad de Vigo

Tagged Divisions

International

refers to the course information, studentsyllabus training and support materials, syllabus and other resources available to the user as they enter the course. The OCW course orientation, along with the course syllabus, plays a very important role in an OCW course because both the orientation and the syllabus provide a student with critical course and support reference information. To OCW course, an online orientation is required. There are several things to consider when designing the orientation. For example

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafiqul Islam, Northwestern State University

Tagged Divisions

International

Act (ARRA) signed byPresident Barack Obama in order to reduce consumption at least 35% by 2030, to create 5million jobs by investing $150 billion dollars over the next 10 years, to ensure 10 percent of ourenergy comes from renewable sources by 2012 and to reduce greenhouse gas emission 80percent by 2050. Academia is feeling significant pressure to offer professional programs withcourses in alternative sustainable energy to produce a technical and scientific workforce2.To keep up with the national trend I will offer an online survey course called introduction toalternative energy for all disciplines in the campus during summer 2010. This paper describes theon-going development of this course. The course syllabus has already been approved by

Conference Session

Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ricky Castles, Virginia Tech; Gary Riggins, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

International

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