Periodically, technological advances have changed the pace, scope and shape of every human endeavor. Education is no exception. In this essay we report a real world experience in harnessing web resources for enhancing teaching process in an engineering college environment. SDMCET is an engineering college under VTU and offers both UG and PG courses in engineering. The author is a faculty in the department of computer science and engineering. He exploring web resources that can be used in conjunction with teaching and has been adopting them ever since.
Starting in 2000, from email usage for exchanging questions and answers with a class of students, I conducted a couple of experiments and currently using assorted set of web tools to conduct class delivery entirely on the web. I used search engine to discover sources of curriculum design and a custom search engine to pin point course resources. Used Alert services to get updates and Blogs to publish class notes, question bank . We used online docs to prepare and publish learning resources such as presentations and additional reference materials. I also used groups to create a community for class and used it to communicate and make course related announcements. All these resources are joined together at course home page. Recently I also used quiz tools as part of evaluation process and recently discovered lesson plan tools.
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