Model Based Concept for Higher Education on the Way Towards Highly Integrated Solutions in Computer Systems

This paper evaluates the concept in which main stages of development of distance education are defined as conventional distance education, conventional virtual classroom, and model based virtual classroom. The evaluated method applies modeling procedures for the description of classroom objects, student profiles, and adaptive actions. Considering arbitrary relationships between attributes of objects described by entities, information for any situation can be recorded in a unified structure where any recorded information can be recalled, modified and completed at any time. A new method is referred in which virtual classroom is applied together with industrial engineering system and one of the recent virtual classroom frameworks. Two extensions are applied, one for the virtual classroom framework, the other for the engineering system. Student projects are analyzed as that are established using Internet portal and group work functionality.