Interactive Learning Environment in Mechanics – Ilem2001

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University "Valahia" Targoviste, Romania, 2 Department of Continuing Education, University “Pierre et Marie Curie”, Paris, France Abstract: Higher education is facing a challenge to meet new demands for the next century. The engineering education must keep same innovation-rate like research and technology progress. Many experts consider that educational pedagogy of the future will be based on distance learning and on-line learning methodologies. In this way the higher education systems will be able to upgrade the new needs of the knowledge-market as result of the effect of globalisation. Having in view the quality needs in engineering education in the new dimensions, this paper presents an example of a higher education integrated learning system which enable us in the field of Mechanics to place the "learner" at the center of the training process and to preserve the essential role of the teacher. This system is conceived in a flexible way and allows the individualization of the educational process and increasing the efficiency of the learning process. It can be used either in initial education, continuing education and distance education.