If you are looking to build outstanding online training and educational programs in the fields of engineering and science, then this book written by Steve Mackay and Darrell Fisher is for you.

Acknowledgements

Preface

  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Creating Useful Education and Training
  • Chapter 3: Putting Online Learning Under the Microscope
  • Chapter 4: Key Elements of Asynchronous Online Learning
  • Chapter 5: Synchronous Online Fundamentals
  • Chapter 6: Good Practice in Web Conferencing
  • Chapter 7: Mobile Learning
  • Chapter 8: Review of Traditional and Online Laboratories
  • Chapter 9: Virtual Laboratories
  • Chapter 10: Remote Laboratory Applications
  • Chapter 11: Remote Laboratory Approaches
  • Chapter 12: Virtual Teams and Collaborative Learning
  • Chapter 13: Assessment and Evaluation of Students and Online Learning Programs
  • Chapter 14: Management of Online Learning
  • Chapter 15: Marketing of Online Learning
  • Chapter 16: Applications
  • Chapter 17: Tying it All Together
  • Appendix A – Self-Appraisal for Distance Learning Preferences
  • Appendix B – A Typical Learning Management System
  • Appendix C – A Typical Web Conferencing Package
  • Appendix D – A Typical Remote Labs Software Package
  • Appendix E – A Typical Proctoring Software Package

    References

  • Engineering Institute of Technology