, healthy, and environmentally friendlycampus. The progress in that area will be documented here. In order to make this processmore attractive and meaningful I offered one survey course online for all disciplines inalternative energy during summer 2010. The findings will be reported in this paper. Incontinuation, a second course will be offered in classroom environment during spring2011 with more technical concepts, design aspects, and implementation suitable for EETand IET students. The author will justify the concentration on sun tracking solar and windenergies over other alternative energy sources in terms of economic aspects andenvironmental issues. A comparison study in this field with some Asian countries willalso be discussed.The experts are
. Page 22.112.4Students were asked if their instructors posted the course syllabus on Blackboard. 39% ofstudents responded that all of their instructors posted the syllabus on Blackboard, while 57%answered that only some of their instructors had posted the syllabus online. Only 5% ofrespondents indicated that none of their instructors posted the syllabus on Blackboard.Students were asked if their instructors used the Messages or Mail tool in Blackboard as aprimary means of communication. 7% replied that all their instructors used the messaging tool,while 50% reported that some of their instructors used the communication tool. 43% replied thatnone of their instructors used the messages tool at all. These results are summarized in Table 3.The
thepapers growing longer and increasingly more complicated as the semester progresses. As aresult, grading of the students work takes a considerable amount of the instructor’s time. TheLearner Manager for the project was the instructor of record for this course and was responsiblefor all of the content including: announcements, the syllabus, assignments, grading rubrics,exams, lectures and discussion prompts. The course was delivered online. All the lectures were created using Camtasia which is ascreen recording software providing visuals of Power Point slides and the lecturer’s face andaudio recording of the lecture. This allowed the Learner Manager to deliver all of the courselectures across the multiple sections. Word versions of the
”.Faculty PerceptionsWe wanted to gather information on faculty attitudes toward and perceptions of Blackboard as asupplement to classroom instruction. Faculty were asked how important they thought it was forstudents to monitor their course performance and grades online. 72% felt that it was “extremelyto very important”, 11% thought it was “somewhat important”, 16% considered it “neitherimportant or unimportant”, and only 2% reported it as being “unimportant”. Page 22.171.5We also wanted to know how important it was to post course materials (PowerPoint’s, lectures,assignments, syllabus, etc.) and a student roster on Blackboard. 75% of respondents felt
may incorporate these into the LMS or atthe very least link them, but others may not, telling students to go to their websites and “not useOnCourse”, the LMS, for the course at all.Common tools that students see used in the LMS by faculty are the assignments, gradebook, messagesand announcements although the degree of use by faculty varies as mentioned before. Students alsoconfirm that the syllabus for the course is almost always loaded in the LMS, but that the location canvary. Students conveyed their desire to be able to download course materials; have a calendar tool withannouncements and assignments linked to it; and to have the ability to submit assignments online. Thegradebook feature is one students find particularly useful, but only
distribute lecture slides, laboratory activity documents andcourse syllabus. Each class session generally starts with the instructors discussing the weeklytopic followed by more open dialogue between the class members. Both Adobe Connect andWebEx allow for an “online chat,” which gives students the opportunity to take discussionsitems into more detailed conversations after the rest of the class moves to the next topic or tocarry on related conversations without disturbing the rest of the class. All class sessions arerecorded through Adobe Connect and WebEx and a link for the recorded session is placed intoBlackboard so students can have an opportunity to review course topics at a later date withoutlosing the context of the discussion.The Role of the
) GSS 2009Sub-Outcome k1 x x xSub-Outcome k2 x xSub-Outcome k3 xSub-Outcome k3 x xNote: Each x in the matrix indicates a course in which that particular outcome is taught and alsoassessed. There will be other intersections for teaching of each sub-outcome that are not assessedas part of the assessment plan, and are hence not shown in this table.Phase 1: The start of programmingDuring phase 1 the following features were developed and programmed into the tool.• Syllabus and CV generators,• Levels of access by different roles,• Creation and revision of assessment matrices,• Articulation of program sub-outcomes associated with A-K
theuniversity mathematics ACCUPLACERTM placement exams. Having an online math course hashelped facilitate that task by allowing prospective engineering students refresh and improve theirmathematics skills. The use of online courses offers the most flexible and cost-effective way ofreaching out to prospective college students through their respective high school science andmathematics teachers.Fundamentals of Engineering (FOE) Course This course is a part of a seamless approach to learning math related STEM skills startingat the pre freshman level through the use of a FOM/ Fundamentals of Engineering (FOE)/Pre-calculus/calculus course sequence. The Fundamentals of Engineering course features a―dynamic‖ syllabus tailored to meet the individualized
discussion and group problem solving. Computer projectors are typically available, and many instructors project their solutions to problems and explore the models developed in class. PowerPoint is extensively used, as are online videos and images of real reactor systems. Some environments allow students to solve problems on computers alongside the instructor. Some classes are taught in a studio environment to facilitate interaction amongst students.In addition to program determined outcomes, individual instructors tend to have areas ofemphasis corresponding to their individual perceptions of importance of class topics. Typicalindividual goals for this course include Application of conservation laws
assessments, but the method does not appear standardized across disciplines. Thepresented method also does not assemble or put together the information from all coursesautomatically. Essa et al. describe a web-based tool to assist with the course assessment processfor ABET accreditation.3 The authors give the details of the design process for such a tool. Thetool, though not yet fully complete by the time of publication3, incorporates the ABET criteriainto the online system to collect entries from individual instructors for their course evaluation.Although such a tool is very valuable in terms of assessing individual courses, it does notcombine the information from multiple courses for a single output. Gastli et al. lay out thedetails of a course
designs beingfield tested can be seen at the RepRap Family Tree - including that of our own class’ design,the [Model Name] Mendel. (http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap_Family_Tree). Specifications vary somewhat depending on the breed of Reprap, but a standardMendel occupies a volume of 500 mm (X) by 400 mm (Y) by 360 mm (Z), and has a buildenvelope of 200 mm (X) x 200 mm (Y) x 140 mm (Z). In addition to PLA, it can printacrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) so long as it has a heated print-bed. RepRap RPG 1.0: A Course for all Majors In October 2010, a laser-cut wooden reprap mendel kit was purchased withpersonal funds from one of several available online vendors by one of the authors. Thissystem was producing useful parts by
credit to veterans seeking to transfer totheir institution. 2 ACE has also offered the Guide for over 50 years to monitor learning acquiredthrough the military. 2 The Guide is an online tool used to summarize learning outcomes,methods of instruction, course length and offer credit recommendations for military courses,for all service branches. The Guide was initially developed to provide an evaluation structure tocounter the education community’s granting of credit to World War I veterans as a reward forlength of service. Today it serves as a resource for both service members and university officialsto present course credit equivalences for military training. Although the Guide is maintained by ACE, subject matter experts evaluate the
knowledge tables and course outcomes to guide course content decisions. This processremoved considerable breadth from the course, which provided time to introduce further depthinto the most critical topics. Another major change to the course was the addition of a 1 hour and45 minute lab section to the course. The lab section was scheduled weekly, but the intent was tooffer 5-6 labs per semester on key topics and to also use the time for exams.It is difficult to accurately quantify the change in course content from one semester to another,but using the topics listed in the syllabus as a guide, the total number topics covered in the coursewas reduced by approximately 25%. As the lecture material for each topic was reworked thefocus was again to
increased momentum. “Blended-learning systems combine face-to-face instruction with computer-mediated instructions” (Graham, 2005). As Shibley(2010) pointed out, “A blended course involves a mixture of face-to-face activities withonline activities,” and “Usually face-to-face time is reduced by 50% but reductions rangefrom 10% - 90%” (Shibley, 2010). One of the major advantages of blended-learning isto maximize student mobility in a vibrant technology and socio-economic environment.For traditional classroom teaching, there were abundant research studies revealing thatthe classroom attendance had a positive impact on academic performance. However,there have been less explorations of the correlation between online attendance andstudent learning
efficiency topic is embedded in most of thelearning activities and course assignments along the semester. The course is designedand delivered in a way that allows students to experience a variety of teachingenvironments: i) traditional lectures; ii) invited speakers and field trips; iii) shortformative assignments; iv) individual and team long term assignments with a strongcollaborative component, and; v) an online environment (Learning Management System)for course resources and materials, information and assignments sharing and severaldiscussion boards.As students are used to more traditional assignments they tend to feel uncomfortablewhen they are asked to make decisions, share information and get actively involved inpeer review and even in peer
electronic lecture notes 7. I liked handy assignments with due dates 8. I like announcements and class news are helpful 9. I like the handy syllabus Figure 3. Results for survey questions Page 22.927.6Overall, student feedback on using BML for their learning is quite positive, especially the handyand electronic lecture notes, handy assignments and grades, and real-time class announcements,etc. However, due to the difficulties on setting up the BML for the course, students did not haveenough time to use the BML in their learning such that they were not sure if the use BMLenhanced their engagement
desk).Each of the modules in Table 1 links to supporting material on the TESSAL website. Thesupporting web resources include: • Tutorial on fundamental, theoretical concepts demonstrated in the lab • Instructional videos for how to run the labs • Laboratory procedures for students to follow to do the lab • Online problems representative of those found in lecture-based course exams • Instructor resources for building the platform and for implementing itThese resources satisfy two goals for the center: 1) to maximize the benefits of incorporating theexperiments into the course and 2) to maximize wide-spread usage of the experiments. Thewebsite material ties the experiments to lecture material as well as provides support for studentsand
, creativity and idea generation, decision makingincorporating technical, economic, societal, and environmental factors, safety, engineering codesand regulations, and engineering ethics. In that first six weeks stude nt groups complete a simpledesign/build project to provide a focus for tools they are learning. The final 6 weeks of thecourse centers around a more advanced design project delivered by each discipline. This courseis integrated with the communications course, and coordinated by the same instructor. Thecommunication course will include a small number of lectures, online modules, and workingtutorials supporting deliverables in the design course. This ensures the communicationsexpectations occur in an engineering context.EDP I Detailed
for Engineering Education, 2011 Keeping the Conversation Alive: Maintaining Students' Research Skills Throughout Their College CareersAbstractAt Drexel University the library teaches engineering students information research skills in theirfirst and senior years. These students would benefit from a refresher in their middle college yearsto enhance their abilities in using library databases. Such an opportunity exists in the junior yearwhen all engineering students are required to take “Technology in Historical Perspective” (HIST285) a course offered by the Department of History and Politics in the College of Arts andSciences. This course examines the interrelationship between technology and its economic,social
DifferentialEquations. They were the ideal SI Leader candidates to facilitate the SI sessions and once theywere recruited, the plan was finalized and ready for implementation in the spring of 2009.The SI SectionThe curriculum for the SI version of College Algebra & Trigonometry was identical to thetraditional sections of the course. A sample of the course syllabus is provided in the appendix.The only difference between the SI section and the traditional sections was the additional two-hour Friday SI session to be held at the same hours as the Monday and Wednesday sessions andin the same classroom as on Monday and Wednesday. The Monday and Wednesday sessionswere facilitated by the instructor. The additional session on Friday was facilitated by the two
. His research focus is on biology education including the use of inquiry and tech- nology in the teaching introductory biology lecture and laboratories. He has published articles on the impact of teaching in reformed courses on graduate students.YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University Assistant professor in the School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology at Oklahoma State Uni- versity. Her research is focused on students’ achievement motivation and self-regulated learning process as well as teachers’ motivation and its impact on instructional practices, both in traditional classroom setting and online instruction. She published articles on graduate teaching assistants’ professional devel- opment as well as
project management experience,or capstone sequence, for the Department of Civil Engineering (Department) at LawrenceTechnological University occurs over two terms: ECE4021 CE Design Project 1 (CE Project 1), a one-credit course offered in the fall, and ECE4033 CE Design Project 2 (CE Project 2), a three-credit course offered in the spring.Students form their own teams of three to five members and develop a project where theygenerate a conceptual design and project management plan. The capstone represents theculmination of the students’ undergraduate education, providing them an opportunity to integratevarious curricular components in preparation for careers as civil engineers.Neither course has an instructor in the traditional sense
is given to about 300students. Two lecturers give the lectures, with each lecturing both streams for about half thesemester. Tutorials are smaller, typically of size 40, and involve several academics. Eachtutorial is managed by one academic and one teaching assistant, normally a postgraduatestudent. In addition to tutorials, informal drop-in clinics are also provided. These take placein a large, open workspace and are staffed by senior students who assist students needing helpin mastering the course. Laboratory exercises provide further learning experiences, as dovarious online resources. While completion of all laboratory exercises is required, there is noattendance requirement for lectures or tutorials. Online assignments2 provide early
engineers [to address Outcome 7]. • Students should be made more aware of BME departmental educational learning outcomes by putting a link on our design course syllabus to the department's mission web page [to address Outcome 9]. • The Committee should explore additional strategies for improving consistency in outcome assessment (i.e., scoring) from year to year. Page 22.1000.8 6 Sr 6 Sr Assessment Score (1‐5
integration of the additional assignment were crucial.These components included lectures, laboratory experiments, homework problems, quizzes, andApp. To align the material in the course, end-of-week meetings were held to discuss learningoutcomes and concepts that were presented the previous week and topics that would be coveredthe following week. This practice provided flexibility in scheduling laboratory experiments toensure all material was interconnected and well integrated. For example, a syllabus with lecturetopics and their respective lecture date was provided at the start of the semester; however, certaintopics required additional or less time than originally scheduled. As a result, the lab experimentswere aligned with the most recent material
AC 2011-2791: ROBOKNOWLEDGE: ADAPTABLE, ON-LINE ROBOTICSPRODUCTION TECHNICIAN INSTRUCTIONAL COMPONENTS ADDRESS-ING MOBILE ROBOTIC DEVICESWilliam C. Beston, Florence-Darlington Technical College William C. Beston has been actively teaching Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics for the past 43 years. He is currently teaching Phys102- Explorations in Physics online for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and is developing three online Robotics courses for Florence-Darlington Technical College. From January, 2001-August, 2002, he served as Staff Associate for the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education in Arlington, Virginia. He currently works as a consultant for NSF and serves on the
areavailable, it is anticipated that the project will provide students with a practical application of theprinciples of basic thermodynamics and heat transfer, and of the specific principles associatedwith solar energy harvesting. Details of the project are provided, along with possible extensionsand variations for future course offerings.2. BackgroundA new course in renewable/sustainable energy has been developed for the mechanicalengineering curriculum at USAFA, and is being taught for the first time in the Spring 2011 term.As opposed to many of the texts in the renewable/sustainable energy field, the text selected1provides a computationally intense basis for most of the topics in the course syllabus. Guestlecturers and a field trip to the National
“effectively” published throughout the course Course syllabus Example problemsConfidential data provides the one area of concern with the usage of a cloud computing platform.The concerns purely rest with the manner in which the cloud contract is structured. In the eventthat an institution routinely uses contracted services and discloses this in their FERPA filing,then the usage of a cloud based service is acceptable.However, the lack of contracted services by a university does not completely preclude the usageof a cloud based system for data storage. For example, a grade book is only a concern if itcontains personally identifiable information. If a professor uses an
emphasis inconsistency” with a teaching supervisor who teaches another section of the same course. Thesupervising professor developed the course materials that Mary is using, and the two sectionsshare a syllabus and course website. During meetings about the course Mary believed she madesome suggestions but that they were not often accepted for implementation. Mary has mademinor changes to the lecture, “added in a few, one or two things maybe throughout… like addingin a slide or two or an example”, and to the exams. Her supervisor “provided the old exams and Ikind of added some new questions and rewrote some of the old questions”. Still, Mary reportsnot making many changes because “I don‟t know, I just didn‟t feel that I could, I guess”. At
, 2007.20 Fried, C.," In-class laptop use and its effects on student learning", Computers & Education Vol. 50, No. 3, 2008, pp. 906-914.21 Kladko, B., "Wireless Classrooms: Tool or Distraction?", The Record, Bergen County, NJ, 2005.22 McWilliams, G., "The laptop backlash", The W allstreet Journal, New York, NY, 2005, pp. B1.23 Anderson, R.," Beyond PowerPoint: Building a New Classroom Presenter", Syllabus Magazine, 2004.24 Anderson, R., R. Anderson, L. McDowell, and B. Simon, "Use of Classroom Presenter in Engineering Courses", 35th A SEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Indianapolis, IN: IEEE, 2005.25 Driver, M.," Exploring student perceptions of group interaction and class satisfaction in the web-enhanced