On this website I will publish information on the project Computer Assisted Lecturing. I have started with this project on February 1 (1998) and will be working on it for a period of two years. Below, the interested reader can find anything on my project and also information and links to related subjects, such as virtual classrooms or distance learning. Enjoy!

The area of Systems and Control plays an important role in the second and third year (basis-doctoraal) of the electrical engineering education. At the moment, the courses in this area are only given in the form of classical lectures. Unfortunately, this form of education doesn't encourage the active study behavior of students very much. Especially in the area of Systems and Control this active behavior of students is important to capture the essence of the course-material. In the past 10 years (approximately) attempts to increase the active study behavior have already been made in the courses ET11-20 (Non-linear Dynamical Systems) and ET11-21 (Control Systems). For ET11-20, students have the opportunity to experiment with simulation-facilities (PSI) to get a better understanding of the behavior of non-linear systems. Also, some matlab demos can be downloaded from the internet-site of the course. For ET11-21 almost the same holds. Besides that, the only way in which this active behavior is encouraged at the moment, is by means of some homework exercises.

A general study on the quality of education in Electrical Engineering shows that the lack of an active interaction between teacher and student (and students amongst each other) is one of the causes of the poor results of students in the second and third year (basis-doctoraal). Recent publications show that a considerable improvement in education can be accomplished by means of a form of computer assisted lecturing. With the availability of new software-facilities and of newly developed practicals a system can be developed, where lectures are being integrated with these and where the active behavior of students can be encouraged.

The goal of this project is to develop a system which integrates a more active form of lectures with an attractive aid/tool (which uses the possibilities of the modern informationtechnology) to encourage the active behavior of students. As attractive aids/tools, we consider the possibilities of the World Wide Web (WWW), computer assisted laboratories and (computer) exercises. The focus will be mainly on how to use the WWW to give the students a deeper understanding of the course material and, related to this, to improve the study-activities of students.

Here I will add links to the results of my research. These will include links to papers I will write, other documents I will write on the subject, implementations of C.A.L. to courses in the Systems and Control laboratory, and probably much more!

• Creating a course-website and you don't know what to put on it? Maybe I can help you to get an idea on what can be part of a course-website. By surfing and reading a lot of different web-sites I made a list of subjects/ parts I found to be (frequently) present on a course-website. To view this list, go here.

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