A Practice Oriented Approach to Intelligent Computing Assisted Distance Education for Engineering

Some advancements in information technology as application support for Internet browsers and modeling of interrelated objects are well appropriate to establish distance learning in advanced computer environment. One of the best developing areas in application of information technology is engineering. A great promise is integration of virtual environments in engineering and Internet based distance education. Methodology reported in (I. J. Rudas et al., 2000) and (L. Horvath et al., 2002) represents one of the possible directions of development towards this integration. Considering some basic concepts and methods from the proposals of the authors of these papers, this paper discusses problem and methodology, and details some practical issues for the implementation of the proposed method in the higher education practice. In this paper, cooperating managers and managing techniques are introduced for virtual classrooms. Next, selection or definition of a course and constraints in classroom models are discussed. Following this, structure and construction of classroom model are explained. Finally, integration of modeled classroom with engineering system is detailed as an implementation issue