Premier Courseware of 2003
On Friday November 7, 2003, the Premier Courseware of 2003 were announced at the 2003 Frontiers in Education at an awards ceremony sponsored by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Electronics Curriculum
By Don L. Millard at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Gerald Burnham at the University of Texas at Dallas; Dianna Newman at the University at Albany, SUNY; and Arthur Sanderson, William Jennings, William Brubaker, Matthew Perala, Diana Slattery, Alex Yu, Daniel O'Neil, Aniket Patel, Luke Bellandi, Peter Olson, Ryan Bradley and Thomas Flynn at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The Learning Modules for an Electronics Curriculum are an integrated set of courseware designed to supplement electronics instruction. Electronics Curriculum includes twenty-four interactive learning modules and utilizes two novel educational technologies (Scribe and Web Team). This courseware provides a comprehensive set of examples and interactive problems for introductory electronics classes that may be easily used as a set or as stand-alone modules. The key innovations of this courseware, the Scribe and Web Team technologies, greatly enhance the use of these materials as tools for students to gain understanding of basic concepts in a hands-on manner at home and in collaboration with classmates. A great strength of the approach used in Electronics Curriculum is that it augments the instructor's ability to discern and address students' key conceptual blocks and to monitor student performance, especially when used in the Scribe and Web Team environments.
WSDOT-Pavement Guide Interactive
By Stephen T. Muench and Joe P. Mahoney at the University of Washington, Linda M. Pierce at the Washington State Department of Transportation, et al.
The WSDOT-Pavement Guide Interactive is a resource and information intensive site that provides an excellent self-directed instructional environment addressing pavement knowledge. While the site is self-described as a virtual "encyclopedia" of pavement knowledge, the site design transcends mere information exchange through the provision of a well-constructed instructional framework. The site's organizational design encompasses a series of pavement related modules, each with extensive content, instructional media, in-depth resources and user self-assessment. Structurally, the site is well organized, easy to navigate, and aesthetically appealing. WSDOT-Pavement Guide Interactive makes strong use of various types of media including text, graphics, video and simulation, and ensures that they are conceptually well integrated.
Finalist Candidates also Available
In addition to the Premier Courseware of 2003 (see above), NEEDS is proud to recognize the finalist candidate in the 2003 Premier Award competition. This courseware package is included on the 2003 Premier Award CD and can also be found through the NEEDS Website. NEEDS congratulates:
Obtaining Copies of the Premier Courseware of 2003
To obtain a complimentary copy of the Premier Courseware of 2003 on CD,
please click here.
If you'd like more information about the Premier Award or how to become a sponsor, please contact Professor Joe Tront at Virginia Tech via email at jgtront@vt.edu.
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