Recent Advances in Web-Based Learning
in Engineering and Science Education

PowerPoint Presentation

Pedagogically-Effective Use of Internet-Based Technologies

• Engineering & Computer Science
• Convolution & Other Java-Based Demos
• Visualization of Algorithms
• ECE 110 - ECE Department, UIUC - Quizzing using Mallard
• ECE 290 - Introduction to Computer Engineering, ECE Department, UIUC
• Sorting Demo
• UIC Measurement Request Broker - Demo - EE Department, UIC
• Stevens Remote Dynamical Systems Laboratory
• Instant Grading of Homework & Quizzes
• LON-CAPA website - Generic solution to boom problem
• Digital Library of Learning Modules
• National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS)
• MERLOT
• Natural Science
• Biology 122 - College of Life Sciences, UIUC
• MCB 150 - College of Life Sciences, UIUC
• Chemical Molecules - UIC - determining stereochemistry
• Chemical Molecules - UIS
• Chemistry Tutorials - UIUC
• Foreign Languages
• Italian 101 - Dept. of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese, UIUC
• Just-In-Time Learning
• Courselets at Stanford University
• MIT Physics Lectures - PIVoT
• Changing Role of Lectures
• Innovations in Physics Education - Pre-Flights in Physics at UIUC
• Building a Learning Community
• Asynchronous Conferencing
• Blackboard - Blackboard in PAC442 at UIS
• General Conferencing Strategies - ION
• Strategies to Promote Communication Online - ION
• Collaborative & Cooperative Learning - ION
• Synchronous Chat
• AOL Instant Messenger
• MSN Messenger
• Strategies for Effective Use of Chat - ION
• Oakley's Online Class - Spring 2005
• Synchronous Conferencing
• Skype
• Elluminate Live!
• Anytime, Anyplace Presentations
• Short Mini-Lectures - Impatica
• Engineering Online - Additional Demos - Windows Media Player
• Illinois Internet Computer Science Program - UIUC
• Online Presentations Enhanced with Audio and Video - Illinois Compass at UIUC
• Online Reference Materials
• Brookens Library - Full-Text Databases
• Statistics
• The CUWU Statistics Program
• Economics
• Excelets - Department of Economics, UIUC
• Wireless Notebook Computers
• Chemistry Laboratory, UIS
• Data Collection, Boyle's Law
• Data Collection, CO2 and O2, Respiration and Photosynthesis

GuruNet - Online reference library
Mozilla Firefox - Web browser - great alternative to IE
Google Toolbar
Web Accessibility
• Opera browser
• Bobby & Section 508

• Online Learning News Blog - a Web log focussing on online learning
• Techno-News Blog - a Web log focussing on educational technologies