Effective Instruction Of An Online Engineering Course

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is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Engineering and Lead Faculty for Engineering Management and Homeland Security and Safety Engineering. He is the Lead for six full time and fifty two adjunct faculty members. His department offers three undergraduate and six graduate programs and has a student population of three hundred students. Dr. Viswanathan is an educator, researcher and administrator with more than twenty-five years of industrial and academic experience encompassing engineering and environmental consulting, research and development, and technology development. His career experience includes teaching at the University level, conducting fundamental research, and developing continuing educational courses. John Watson, National UniversityJohn Watson has been a professional technologist and researcher for over 24 years.Research/Academic: Dr. Watson teaches computer science and software engineering courses as an associate professor at National University (La Jolla, CA) while continuing research in the areas of human and machine cognition. He holds a joint doctoral degree in Education with emphasis on education technology and multicultural education from Claremont Graduate University and San

An Online Engineering Dynamics Class for College Sophomores: Design, Implementation, and Assessment

“…In recent years, it has become obvious that online classes offer significant benefits to students who learn differently, need flexibility in learning the material through videos and notes at their own time and pace due to their work schedule or general preference, or have difficulty adjusting to a F2F class due to the language and social issues [7,8]. The two flavors of online classes that have been popular are Flipped-Format (FF) and 100% Online (OL) ones.…”

Traditional, Blended, and On-Line Teaching of Electrical Machinery Course

“…Because of this, more online courses are being offered as part of traditional programs 19 . However, studies show that student participation and motivation is different for an on-line course [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] . Positive attributes of on-line learning include: increased productivity for independent learners; diminished fear of public speaking, which increases class participation; efficiency in assignment completion; and easy access to all lecture material during the entire course 19,27 .…”

“…However, studies show that student participation and motivation is different for an on-line course [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] . Positive attributes of on-line learning include: increased productivity for independent learners; diminished fear of public speaking, which increases class participation; efficiency in assignment completion; and easy access to all lecture material during the entire course 19,27 . However, critiques of online learning claim that it diminishes the active process of learning, and as a result limits development of high level thinking skills 19,27 .…”

“…Positive attributes of on-line learning include: increased productivity for independent learners; diminished fear of public speaking, which increases class participation; efficiency in assignment completion; and easy access to all lecture material during the entire course 19,27 . However, critiques of online learning claim that it diminishes the active process of learning, and as a result limits development of high level thinking skills 19,27 . Other research has focused on the benefits of online learning for certain demographics.…”