A decade of hindsight allows us to examine the phenomenon of Web-based course delivery and evaluate its successes and failures. When Webdelivered courses mushroomed from campuses in the 1990s, they were embraced by students, faculty, and administrators alike. The prospect of “electronic tutelage” (Marold, 2002), which allowed students through Web interface to take college courses for credit any...

he World Wide Web has the potential to revolutionize instruction and increase educational opportunities across corporate, government, and educational sectors. Not only will the Web enable distance learning and peer-to-peer con-nectivity, but it will also enhance student feedback and let instructors understand whether and how long students have studied a particular lesson. It also has the potent...

The use of Internet for distance education has received increasing attention over the past few years. But the real challenge of adapting this technology for engineering education is to facilitate the laboratory experiments via Internet. This paper discusses the software and hardware requirements of virtual courses/laboratories to provide interactive environment for designing and conducting clas...

Information integration plays an important role in academic environments since it provides a comprehensive view of education data and enables mangers to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of education processes. However, the problem in the traditional information integration is the lack of personalization due to weak information resource or unavailability of analysis functionality. In this ...

Information integration plays an important role in academic environments since it provides a comprehensive view of education data and enables mangers to analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of education processes. However, the problem in the traditional information integration is the lack of personalization due to weak information resource or unavailability of analysis functionality. In this ...