Control tutorials for software instruction over the World Wide Web

Author

Tilbury, Dawn M. ; Messner, William C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng. & Appl. Mech., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

42

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

11/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

237

Lastpage

246

Abstract

The World Wide Web (WWW) has given educators unprecedented opportunities to provide information to students both within their own classes and around the globe. This paper describes the development and implementation of a set of Web-based tutorials for MATLAB, a popular computation and visualization software package. The potential impact of the WWW on pedagogical objectives is discussed, and the tutorials are presented as a case study of Web-based software instruction. Their structure and implementation are described, and feedback and statistics from the first academic year of use are shown. The authors also describe their efforts at disseminating information on the tutorials to increase their use. The paper concludes with a discussion of future work planned for the tutorials and potential future applications of the concept of Web-based tutorials

Keywords

control engineering education; courseware; engineering computing; information resources; software tools; MATLAB; Web-based tutorials; World Wide Web; control tutorials; engineering education courses; software instruction; students; Automatic control; Education; MATLAB; Power engineering computing; Software packages; Software tools; Statistics; Tutorial; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.804527

Filename

804527