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The Web and the Transformation of ECE Education
Burks Oakley II Professor of Electrical
Computer Engineering University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign 14 June 2005 ASEE Session 2232
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Effect of Moores Law
From Ian Jukes, http//www.ianjukes.com/
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Interesting data from the PIP

• Two-thirds of the American public go online
  regularly
• 81 of the 18-29 age group go online daily
• 88 of people with a college degree go online
  regularly
• 84 of Internet users look for maps and driving
  directions online
• More than half of the households with teenagers
  have broadband access

http//www.pewinternet.org/
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Educational Technologies

• The World Wide Web and graphical Web browsers
  (Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer)
• Asynchronous synchronous conferencing software
• Streaming audio and video
• Java Java applets
• Course management systems (Blackboard, WebCT,
  Moodle, etc.)
• Tablet PCs pen-based computing

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Web - Impact on Learning

• Increased communication (asynchronous
  conferencing)
• Simulations
• Visualization
• Active learning (Java applets)
• Instant feedback (online grading of homework)
• Totally online courses and degree programs

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Results from Sloan-C studies

• There are no significant differences in learning
  outcomes for online and on-ground students.
• Those who wish to learn online can, given the
  current state of the Internet and technical
  delivery mechanisms.
• Costs for delivery of online courses are
  comparable to on-ground education.
• Faculty are satisfied with online education
• Students are successful in learning online and
  are typically pleased with their experiences.

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Survey conducted by Elaine Allen Jeff
Seaman Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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2004 survey of online learning

• Over 1.9 million students were studying online in
  the fall of 2003.
• Schools expect the number of online students to
  grow to over 2.6 million by the fall of 2004.
• Schools expect online enrollment growth to
  accelerate the expected average growth rate
  for online students for 2004 is 24.8, up from
  19.8 in 2003.

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Student satisfaction
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Quality perceptions changing
-2 is inferior 0 is neutral 2 is superior
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Critical to long-term strategy
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Online Engineering Degrees

• What are engineering educators doing to provide
  online access to educational opportunities?
• A large number of masters degrees and
  post-baccalaureate certificates
• A small number of associates degrees
• Very few online bachelors degrees

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Online Engineering Degrees
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Online Engineering Degrees
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Online Engineering Degrees
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A large un-served market

• A recent NSF study shows that while the need for
  engineers is growing, the number of engineering
  graduates is not growing.
• Thousands of technicians are seeking upward
  mobility in their careers while continuing to
  work.
• Online BS degrees would connect the two needs,
  giving working students access to a degree
  program that enables them to balance the demands
  of work and study and creating a stream of
  engineers for the workforce.

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Use of Web Technologies
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ABET Competencies
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ABET (continued)
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Lab objectives

• Instrumentation Apply appropriate sensors and
  tools to measure physical quantities.
• Models Identify strengths and limitations of
  theoretical models as predictors of real-world
  behavior.
• Experimentation Devise an approach, specify
  appropriate equipment and procedures, implement
  the strategy, and interpret the data.
• Data analysis Demonstrate the ability to
  collect, analyze, and interpret data to form and
  support conclusions.
• Design Create and debug a part, product, or
  system using specific methodologies, equipment,
  or material while meeting specific requirements
  and specification
• Learn from failure Recognize unsuccessful
  outcomes from faulty equipment, parts, code,
  construction, process, or design, then
  re-engineer solutions.
• Creativity Demonstrate appropriate levels of
  independent thought and capability in real-world
  problem solving.
• Psychomotor Demonstrate competence in
  selection, modification, and operation of
  appropriate tools and resources.
• Safety Recognize health, safety, and
  environmental issues related to process and
  activities.
• Communication Relay information about
  laboratory work effectively, both orally and in
  writing, at levels ranging from executive
  summaries to comprehensive technical reports.
• Teamwork Work effectively in groups using
  accountability and assigning roles,
  responsibilities, and tasks to meet deadlines.
• Ethics Behave with high standards, including
  reporting information objectively and interacting
  with integrity.
• Sensory awareness Use human senses to gather
  information and make sound engineering judgments
  in formulation of conclusions.

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Examples of labs online
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Advantages of online

• Provide courses for learners who cannot access
  the campus, including students who are studying
  abroad, in a co-op program, etc.
• Bring in experts while lowering costs
• Have teams of students from different
  institutions work together
• Capture and organize detailed course materials,
  make them reusable
• Track student work
• Shared writing, capturing discussion
• Capture and display portfolios of student work

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What we need to know

• Teaching with different pedagogies online
• How to translate best practices on-campus to
  online
• Effective use of technologies
• Presentation, testing, interaction, simulation
• Assessment
• Plagiarism, writing, evaluations (team,
  individual)
• Blended (hybrid) courses
• What is the right way to blend? How much blending
  is appropriate?

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The impact of the web

• Improve quality of teaching and learning
• New and improved pedagogies
• Provide access on a larger scale
• Secure broad offerings of courses
• Reduce costs, improve efficiency
• Improve faculty and student satisfaction
• Provide access to remote laboratories
• Build new partnerships

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Online and campus education

• Provide access to courses in co-op program
• Adding excitement to courses (increase retention)
  via
• Simulations (online permits driving down cost)
• Entrepreneurship (online permits linking to
  online materials)
• Real-time case study
• Collaboration with other colleges (course sharing
  use the real-time case study, for example)

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Good reference article

• J.R. Bourne, D. Harris, F. Mayadas (2005),
  Online engineering education learning anywhere,
  anytime, JALN vol. 9 (1).
• Online engineering degrees, supplied by
  partnerships among multiple institutions, can
  permit increasing choice, diversity, creativity
  and connection and hence can be a useful pathway
  for engineering education to follow.
• http//www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/v9n1/pdf/
  v9n1_bourne.pdf

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New online BSEE degree

• SUNY to offer online engineering degree
•  The University at Buffalo and two other State
  University of New York institutions will now
  offer electrical engineering students an
  opportunity to gain a bachelor's degree online.
  SUNY officials said Thursday the
  first-of-its-kind program will be created through
  the assistance of a 300,000 grant awarded by the
  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. UB will work in
  partnership with Stony Brook University and
  Binghamton University on the program.
• http//buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/200
  5/06/06/daily44.html

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The Web and the Transformation of ECE Education
Burks Oakley II web http//www.online.uillinois.
edu/oakley/ e-mail oakley_at_uillinois.edu