Why not use digital media exclusively?
Why not use digital media exclusively?
- Author(s): I.G. Kennedy
- DOI: 10.1049/ic:20010046
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- Author(s): I.G. Kennedy Source: IEE International Symposium Engineering Education: Innovations in Teaching, Learning and Assessment, 2001 page ()
- Conference: IEE International Symposium Engineering Education: Innovations in Teaching, Learning and Assessment
The fast conversion to digital media is a priority for Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Electrical Engineering Education (TL&A in EEE). Experience has shown that this approach has many advantages over conventional teaching methods. The author modularizes teaching material and uses questions as titles in authoritative, attractive, engaging hypertext and post assignments on the Web, which students must submit by E-mail. Their response to the all-digital media is overwhelmingly positive. Learning is motivated by the freshness of the material, supported by online links to Web or local references, and subsidiary material. The use of search engines to search the Web and local hard-drive is taught formally. Students are given a graduated series of assignments where they have to use digital bookmarking as a means of categorizing concepts, annotating findings, and organising Web and local material into a logical structure for publication on the Web and academic assessment. Posting on the Web encourages the quality of students' work and the transparency of our assessment process. Institutes and industry should cooperate and take a proactive lead in sponsoring, commissioning, clearing copyright or intellectual property issues and in providing rewards to encourage works that build on the advantages of all-digital media. The paper asks and partially answers the questions “Why is Computer aided TL&A in EEE so important?” “What can the Institutes and other role-players do to hasten the process?” and “What does all-digital media mean for the industry?”. (9 pages)
Inspec keywords: electrical engineering computing; electrical engineering education; computer aided instruction; distance learning; information resources
Subjects: Education and training; Electrical engineering computing; Information networks; Education and training; Computer-aided instruction
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