The scenarisation of learning activities seems to be a promising way to answer CSCL challenges. The success of the corresponding Learning Design field depends largely on its ability to offer eLearning professionals well-adapted tools. Whereas a number of languages are coming to maturity in this field, the associated authoring tools are still too difficult for instructional designers to manipula...

In this contribution, a new approach for teaching digital controllers for finite settling time and deadbeat response is proposed. Essential concepts of deadbeat control are revised and shorted in order to simplify the teaching. The approach is base on a constructivist instructional model, which is supported by wellknown pedagogical tools as the learning cycle, the sandwich structure and the por...

CAT0 is an instructions environment for practicing basic skills of legal research: to use cases in arguments about a problem situation and to test a theory about a legal domain. Using the CAT0 tools, law students analyze a legal problem, frame queries of CATO’S database of legal cases, and judge how relevant the retrieved cases are to their developing argument or theory. CAT0 aids hming by maki...

The design of web-based instructional systems is largely conducted on an intuitive, ad hoc basis, thus resulting in inefficient systems that do not capitalise on the strengths of networked technologies. Among these strengths, one could mention: multiple media delivery formats, synchronous and asynchronous communication and relaxation of constraints in place and time of instructional delivery. M...

For the past five issues of the Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, we have examined a variety of teaching tools and techniques: the chalkboard, questioning, drama, physical models, and demonstrations. All of these tools are focused on the delivery of classroom instruction. All are valu­ able, and mastering them will undoubtedly improve your teach­ ing. However...

The specific problem addressed in this paper is the lack of assessment and feedback tools appropriate to support learning and instruction in complex and dynamic task domains. In such domains, representative problems can be identified but they often lack single solutions, and there is a great deal of variability between and among problems. As a consequence, in order to determine progress of lear...

This article explores how social software tools can offer support for innovative learning methods and instructional design in general, and those related to self-organized learning in an academic context in particular. In the first section, the theoretical basis for the integration of wikis, discussion forums, and Weblogs in the context of learning are discussed. The second part presents the res...

It is well known that learning introductory software development is a difficult task for many students. This paper discusses some of the resources and tools that are available, or have been experimented with, that might be of interest to instructional designers of programming. The resources and tools are discussed in the context of the four phases of the software lifecycle, these being: analyse...