Work in Progress: Replacing "Traditional Lectures" with Face-to-Face Directed Problem Solving Sessions and On-Line Content Delivery

An experimental format is described in which the "lecture content" for a core junior-level ECE course was delivered via on-line streaming video (referred to as "virtual lecture"), and the regularly-scheduled class meeting times were used for instructor-directed, collaborative problem solving sessions (referred to as "directed problem solving"). A "traditional lecture" division of the course was offered simultaneously, to provide students an opportunity to select the course format they felt best matched their individual learning style. Results, including survey data and comparative performance on common exams, are presented for the initial trials conducted