WWW implementation of an identification course: structure and users´ evaluation

This paper describes the structure of the course Dynamic System Identification that has been designed as an experimental multicampus solution, based on Web servers, to the problem of conjugating economic efficiency with the limited number of students selecting specialistic courses in single universities. This course is, at present, inserted in the five-year curricula for a degree in Electronic, Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering at the Universities of Bologna (where it has been designed) and Ferrara (Italy) and has been developed in the context of the VirtUE (Virtual University for Europe) project. The evaluations that are reported have been obtained on two sides. The students describe their experience in acquiring knowledge oriented to an heavy professional use relying only on the advice of a remote tutor and on tools delivered through the net. The tutors, on the other side, describe the problems that they met interacting with their students mainly using telematic tools and how their in itinere evaluations matched the final one that is performed in a traditional way.