This paper presents the 8 Learning Events Model (8LEM), a pedagogical reference framework which was used, in more than 100 online course, as a starting point for instructional planning. Besides supporting teachers in early stages of the learning design continuum, the paper shows how this learning/teaching model, as a professional development tool, prompts them to diversify the learning methods ...

Introduction Computer-aided tools are being increasingly used to support the design process. Most, however, are usable only in the latter stages of design and, even then, provide only limited support (Baya and Leifer 1996). Currently, no commercial computer-based design tool exists for, or has been developed with the sole intention of, supporting the interdisciplinary team during the conceptual...

In this paper, we discuss the problem of developing performance-oriented software and the need for methodologies. We then present the EDPEPPS (Environment for Design and Performance Evaluation of Portable Parallel Software) approach to the problem of designing and evaluating high-performance (parallel) applications. The EDPEPPS toolset is based on a rapid prototyping philosophy, where the desig...

The quest for a useful design tool that incorporated the effect of dynamics of conveyor belts on the design of a conveyor system started halfway the 1950's. It was however not until halfway the 1980's that the first useful design tool became available. In the early days of using dynamics of belt conveyor systems the attention was focused on an analysis of both the starts and the stops of long o...

This paper presents the preliminary stages of the design of MapQFTool, a software tool that will provide support to the understanding and comparability of the National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) of the various European countries. The paper starts by providing background information on the Bologna Process and the Qualifications Frameworks. It then addresses the limitations of trying to map...

Industrial design engineers use a wide variety of research fields when making decisions that will eventually have significant impact on their designs. Obviously, designers cannot master every field, so they are therefore often looking for a simple set of rules of thumb on a particular subject. For this reason a wiki has been set up: www.wikid.eu. Whilst Wikipedia already offers a lot of this in...

Although there are a lot of web based e-learning solutions on the market, using these tools to design and organize courses still stays a very difficult task for most teachers. EduWeaver was developed as a coursware design tool with the aim to support the courseware development process during the coursware design and implementation phases providing access to a learning object repository and a gr...

ed. Furthermore, in order to develop tools that integrate with the other systems that designers use, providing connectivity is important. Better understanding the requirement for connectivity requires research into the variety of existing tools, systems and processes that are relevant to analogical design and research into the real world contexts in which those tools are used and in which analo...

Medium-voltage DC electrical distribution is envisioned as a possible system for the warship of the future, bringing numerous advantages including a very power-dense architecture. This system takes the AC power produced by generators, immediately rectifies all power to DC and distributes it throughout the ship, requiring inversion back to AC for all AC loads. The question then arises whether it...

Electronic multimedia publishing is increasingly becoming a major industrial activity, and the design of web applications and hypermedia applications in general needs to become a well-organized and efficient process. The most important factor in making web design efficient and effective is the availability of a suitable design model. Considering that no model can be exploited to its maximum pot...