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Session 2793

Customizable Lectures, Assignments, and Virtual Classrooms for Professionals

Robin Qiu Jane Xue

Division of Engineering GL AgilityTech, Inc. Penn State Great Valley Collegeville, PA 19426 Malvern, PA 19355

Abstract -- A designated class for professionals could be quite different from one for college students due to a variety of professionals in light of attendees’ totally different profiles. For instance, each individual has different background, work experience, course expectation, work schedule, and so forth. Virtual classes powered by advanced network computing and web technologies are an excellent and cost-effective solution to providing professionals with full accesses to well-developed college or training courses by eliminating time and location limitation. In addition, savvy information about individuals, such as education background, work experience, and course expectations, can be collected and archived. When knowledge-based algorithms are used to tailor course materials and assignments for each individual based on his/her saved dossier, the needs of an individual professional can be completely satisfied. Ease of use, interactions, and real time responses are essential implicit characteristics of a virtual classroom. Enabled Internet technologies and artificial intelligence make this kind of learning environment reality.

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Different from most full-time college students, professionals most likely get trained in different continue education schools/centers at night or on weekend although some intensive training could take place daily or weekly. Professionals with different course expectations, work schedules, work experience, and even totally different education backgrounds could take the same course. Undoubtedly those differences make jobs difficult for everyone involved in the training process, such as management for staff, teaching for an instructor, and learning for an trainee. Therefore, it is extremely important for a professional training school/center to have a well-defined e-learning or e-education system in place to manage trainees’ personal information, help instructors improve their teaching qualities, and provide trainees’ with sufficient flexibility to access the well-developed and properly suitable courses. The ultimate goal is to retain high trainees’ satisfaction by meeting their career development objectives from time to time.

There are many kinds of school course management systems. Typically they are used to schedule courses, manage students/trainees’ registrations, and provide on-line transcripts and payment

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Xue, J., & Qiu, R. (2002, June), Customizable Lectures, Assignments, And Virtual Classrooms For Professionals Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10969