Using Authorware to produce CAL modules for assistance in teaching engineering concepts

This paper describes work carried out by the authors and others in developing computer based teaching modules to assist in undergraduate teaching. The Paper concentrates on one illustrative example of a module, from a suite currently under development by the CALGroup consortium of which the University of Reading is a member. The paper describes the development process from conception of needs, planning, authoring, testing through to implementation into the teaching syllabus and testing its effectiveness. The paper concludes with a discussion of the relative merits of CAL and authoring systems such as Authorware Professional