Impact of the new learning environment on traditional engineering courses

The paper brings a short overview of accomplished steps that promote development and enforcement of a new approach to PID control. Its concern is to unify numerous approaches and initiatives which emerged during the last hundred years in the field of control of the simplest dynamical systems and to organize them into a new modular building kit that would be more compact, consistent and effective than the existing one. An essential role of different ICT tools and electronic media, corresponding learning environment, and a learning paradigm representing indispensable parts of the overall research framework are highlighted.