TY - GEN
T1 - Application of quality assurance in web-based laboratories
AU - Kwan, Reggie
AU - Chan, Jimmy S.F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Asynchronous communication in traditional courses has proven to be inadequate in both the turn-around time and the lack of physical and psychological connection between the learners and the facilitators. A Web-based course provides new challenges regarding communications. Some students are already isolated geographically and have a difficult time making a connection with the facilitator and other students. This paper describes the "closed lab" conducted on the Internet in a programming course and how the conditions be monitored through the application of quality assurance (QA). Components of this course such as animated learning materials, notes, assignments, laboratories, and exams are all provided entirely through the Web. In this course, a virtual lab is run once a week to synchronize learning materials, to answer programming questions instantaneously, and to promote a learning community. This paper summarizes the experience in adopting the 5S in condition monitoring in the "virtual laboratory", adoption of QA in condition monitoring and how this methodology can be extended to wider education sector.
AB - Asynchronous communication in traditional courses has proven to be inadequate in both the turn-around time and the lack of physical and psychological connection between the learners and the facilitators. A Web-based course provides new challenges regarding communications. Some students are already isolated geographically and have a difficult time making a connection with the facilitator and other students. This paper describes the "closed lab" conducted on the Internet in a programming course and how the conditions be monitored through the application of quality assurance (QA). Components of this course such as animated learning materials, notes, assignments, laboratories, and exams are all provided entirely through the Web. In this course, a virtual lab is run once a week to synchronize learning materials, to answer programming questions instantaneously, and to promote a learning community. This paper summarizes the experience in adopting the 5S in condition monitoring in the "virtual laboratory", adoption of QA in condition monitoring and how this methodology can be extended to wider education sector.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937427320&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-45689-9_13
DO - 10.1007/3-540-45689-9_13
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84937427320
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 154
EP - 163
BT - Advances in Web-Based Learning - 1st International Conference, ICWL 2002, Proceedings
A2 - Fong, Joseph
A2 - Cheung, Chu Ting
A2 - Va Leong, Hong
A2 - Li, Qing
T2 - 1st International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2002
Y2 - 17 August 2002 through 19 August 2002
ER -