PIs: Glenda Scales, Assistant Dean for Distance Learning and Computing, Engineering, Jason Lockhart, Director of Multimedia Lab, Engineering

Project Goals or Needs Addressed: Providing course materials and remediation materials online, allows students who lack certain prerequisites for courses to catch up and remain with the class. "Our goal was to create a Web presence for engineering courses … so that students could see not only a course description, but examples of homework, also if there was some remediation that needed to be done …get more information about that course." Also, to accomplish this goal, there is a need for "more service-based resources on campus to address walk-up needs of faculty."
Project Grants and Expenditures: $9900 (year 8), $35,000 (year 9), staff wages



Multimedia Lab projects
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Web-based course modules were created for approximately five faculty members in Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE). Project staff wanted to create a prototype "course presence" for other faculty to emulate, consisting of "a course description, syllabus, examples of class lecture notes, homework assignments, and even examples of quizzes or exams."

The developed course modules included such multimedia as streamed digital video, audio, and flash segments. Project staff addressed "instructional units that require a lot of remediation, trying to develop a Web-based application to address that remediation so that the students can, on their own, practice and get in touch with what the faculty member is going to be teaching before they come to the classroom so that they have a better understanding once they get there and can ask better questions and go more in depth."