Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Saturday, September 07, 2002

http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/july2002/index.html#8

Online learning: a project to develop an innovative approach to control
Will Simpson, Technology Innovation Centre

Introduction: This article describes a work in progress. My project is about the development of a personalised online learning control system, based upon web pages dynamically created from database data. It is an online system designed to encourage effective student learning through providing adaptive controls, while in the background student progress information is captured in the database to enable teachers to monitor and support the students’ learning process. This work started as an attempt to enhance student motivation, skill building and effective learning by using the Internet in an adaptive way, to get away from the current ‘one size fits all’ philosophy. It has developed over the past four years, informed by a combination of research and student feedback, and is used for the teaching of business subjects to a group of over 200 students each year. These students are first year BSc undergraduates studying a range of technology-oriented degrees in the Engineering Faculty at the University of Central England in Birmingham, UK....

 



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