Web-based engineering education [electronic resource] : critical design and effective tools / Donna Russell, A.K. Haghi [editors].
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2010.Description: electronic texts (206 p. : ill.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781615206605 (ebook)
- Engineering -- Study and teaching (Higher)
- Web-based instruction
- Educational Web sites
- Distance education
- Engineers -- In-service training
- Animated simulations design
- Architectural Web portals
- Blended learning in engineering education
- Diagnostic systems for building construction
- E-learning for engineering education
- Interactive CAD learning
- Learning management systems
- Living systems to teach engineering concepts
- Mobile learning in Web-based instruction
- Online automated essay grading systems
- Virtual engineering education
- VLEs for engineering students
- 620.0078/5 22
- T65.5.C65 W43 2010e
- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references.
Designing of E-learning for Engineering Education in Developing Countries / B. Noroozi, M. Valizadeh, G. Sorial -- Architectural Web Portal and Interactive CAD Learning in Hungary / Attila Somfai -- Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century / A. Haghi, B. Noroozi -- 3D Virtual Learning Environment for Engineering Students / M. Valizadeh, B. Noroozi, G. Sorial -- Online Automated Essay Grading System as a Web Based Learning (WBL) Tool in Engineering Education / Siddhartha Ghosh -- Future Challenges of Mobile Learning in Web-Based Instruction / Rochelle Jones, Chandre Butler, Pamela McCauley-Bush -- Designing Animated Simulations and Web-Based Assessments to Improve Electrical Engineering Education / Douglas Holton, Amit Verma -- Use of Living Systems to Teach Basic Engineering Concepts / Kauser Jahan ... [et al.] -- The Use of Applets in an Engineering Chemistry Course / B.M. Trigo, G.S. Olguin, P.H.L.S. Matai -- Competitive Design of Web-Based Courses in Engineering Education / Stelian Brad -- WIRE / Yih-Ruey Juang -- Sights Inside the Virtual Engineering Education / Giancarlo Anzelotti, Masoumeh Valizadeh -- Effective Design and Delivery of Learning Materials in Learning Management Systems / Mehregan Mahdavi, Mohammad Khoobkar -- Web-Based Training / Masoumeh Valizadeh, Giancarlo Anzelotti, Sedigheh Salehi -- A Diagnostic System Created for Evaluation and Maintenance of Building Constructions / Attila Kopp�any.
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Rapid advances in computer technology and the internet have created new opportunities for delivering instruction and revolutionizing the learning environment. This development has been accelerated by the significant reduction in cost of the Internet infrastructure and the easy accessibility of the World Wide Web. This book evaluates the usefulness of advanced learning systems in delivering instructions in a virtual academic environment for different engineering sectors. It aims at providing a deep probe into the most relevant issues in engineering education and digital learning and offers a survey of how digital engineering education has developed, where it stands now, how research in this area has progressed, and what the prospects are for the future.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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