Abstract
The concept of distance learning has been more and more articulated during the past few years and is expected to shortly turn into a practical education system within current high level learning institutions. The chances are that distance learning would transparently extend colleges and institutes of education, and could plausibly overtake and turn into a preferred choice of higher education, especially for adult and working students. In a supportive effort towards faster distance learning implementation and consideration, we are presenting through this material a sequence of projects that have been developed at University of Bridgeport and can serve very well in the process of distance learning education ranging from simple “hobby” style training to professional guidance material. The projects have an engineering / laboratory flavor, are part of an ongoing work of the faculty and students of the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the university, and are being presented in an arbitrary order, topics ranging from vision and sensing to engineering design, scheduling, remote control and operation.
Highlights
Distance learning is being envisioned as an edu cation mechanism that is more accessible, comfort able and closer to the learning individual
The advantages are immediate and of unique importance, to enumerate a few: Scholarship / edu cation costs can be reduced dramatically, both from a student’s perspective and the institution’s; The usu ally tedious immigration and naturalization issues that are common with international students are eliminated; The limited campus facilities, faculty members and course schedules an institution can offer are no longer a boundary; Working adults can consider upgrading skills without changing lifestyle
A course could for example be offered online through a compre hensive list of multimedia solutions ranging from an online course book and online homework sub missions to live video conferencing, auditing and examinations
Summary
Distance learning is being envisioned as an edu cation mechanism that is more accessible, comfort able and closer to the learning individual. The main idea in elearning is to build adequate solutions that could assure educational training over the Internet, without requiring a personal pres ence at the degree offering institution. The advantages are immediate and of unique importance, to enumerate a few: Scholarship / edu cation costs can be reduced dramatically, both from a student’s perspective and the institution’s (no need for room and board, for example); The usu ally tedious immigration and naturalization issues that are common with international students are eliminated; The limited campus facilities, faculty members and course schedules an institution can offer are no longer a boundary; Working adults can consider upgrading skills without changing lifestyle. The methods of creating an online course are endless and would have to be chosen adequately, considering issues such as security/re liability of training, educational expectations such as work speed improvement (e.g. math and pro gramming courses), physical dexterity (e.g. me chanical, medical courses), etc. We are concentrating on some of the aspects of the mentioned problems and present a few distinct implementations that could help their solution
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