A CD-ROM based laboratory in fluid mechanics part II: course assessment and evaluation

Author

Crossman, Gary R. ; Abdel-Salam, Tarek M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mechanical Eng. Technol., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 Nov. 2003

Abstract

This paper evaluates an existing distance learning fluid mechanics laboratory, MET 335 and compares it to the on-campus version of the course. The course was developed at Old Dominion University and offered for the first time in the spring of 2000 as a video-based laboratory on CD-ROM. The overall assessment of the distance learning laboratory is based on a detailed analysis of the different components of student evaluation for the course. The analysis of these results is in turn compared with similar analysis of other existing on-campus laboratory courses taught by the same instructor. The assessment of the distance learning laboratory course shows that the video-taped CD-ROM laboratory is an effective way of teaching this laboratory course.

Keywords

audio discs; distance learning; educational courses; fluid mechanics; physics education; student experiments; video discs; Old Dominion University; course assessment; distance learning fluid mechanics laboratory; student evaluation; video-taped CD-ROM laboratory; CD-ROMs; Computer aided instruction; Distance learning; Education; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Laboratories; Read only memory; Springs; TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2003. FIE 2003 33rd Annual

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7961-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2003.1263289

Filename

1263289