| Case | Domains/Units | Learning Problems | Kinds of Technology | Development | Integration | Evaluation |
| Kurt Gramoll's Multimedia for Engineering Education | Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering: Vibrations, dynamics, statics, finite element analysis, "rocket science" | Students have a difficult time visualization much of the behavior in this domain. | CD-ROM-based multimedia | Challenging development: Director, Shockwave on the Web, etc. Several months of development | Fairly easy integration: Appropriate for use in labs or for self-study | Evaluated to determine the value of the different components of the software: Cases vs. visualization |
| Mark Guzdial's CaMILE: Collaboration in Undergraduate Education | Completely general | Encouraging students to talk to one another for the sake of learning | Web-based CGI scripts: Forms input, no Java | Challenging. Perhaps a quarter of development -- for each iteration | Easy to integrate into curriculum, but integrating into classroom practice can be more challenging | Evaluated in comparison with newsgroups: Do students talk in more depth (which may lead to learning) with CaMILE than with newsgroups? |
| Farrokh Mistree's Design-Learning Simulator | Mechanical Engineering Design using Decision-Based Methods | Helping students to learn design in a decision-based approach | Web-based case studies, guide for class and method, resource links | Not complex but long -- a great deal of material has been collected at this site | Challenging integration. Using the tool requires use of method, theoretical underpinning, etc. | Evaluation by tracking visits and interviewing students |
| Nelson Baker's EPITOME | Civil Engineering: Strength of materials, dynamics | Helping students to solve a wide-variety of problems | Simulations and Generating quizzes: Self-study, lab activity | Very challenging development: Use of Intelligent Tutoring Systems Technology | Relatively easy to integrate -- mostly, students use on their own | Comparative studies with students having access (or not) to the technology |
| Mark Guzdial's STABLE: Smalltalk Apprenticeship Based Learning Environment | Computer Science: Object-oriented analysis, design, and programming in Smalltalk | Helping students to complete projects by providing them with models and reusable pieces | Case library of example student projects | Relatively easy to develop. Once the template is defined, students' projects get cut-and-paste into it | Can be challenging to integrate: Making course assignments so that the example projects are applicable and useful | Evaluated by media comparison, comparing to previous class' performance on a similar assignment, comparing to previous class' learning measured by final exam isomorphic problems |
| Use of Existing Software: Mathematica in Math or MATLAB in Aerospace | ||||||
| Some email-based project: None selected yet |
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