Innovative Engineering Instructional Technology Initiatives and Online Pedagogical Practices

Many courses in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering take advantage of various online teaching tools to engage students in learning. This presentation will discuss the pedagogical practice and cover the development and implementation of academic instructional technology solutions that support online instruction. The presentation will introduce several technologies utilized by instructors in the Faculty to support online teaching and learning (tablet PCs, integrated document cameras), and will offer an introductory review of lecture capture (Camtasia Relay, MyMedia YouTube, iTunes, ePresence, Mediasite, etc.) In addition, the authors will demonstrate the innovative Multimedia Enhanced Electronic Teaching System (MEETS), which was developed in-house and in response to the growing need of effectively teaching courses with large enrolments while still allowing demonstrations, which have traditionally been limited to smaller classes. The MEETS was designed to be compatible for lecture capture to be used for online teaching and learning. In the teaching of University level engineering courses, it is critical to clearly explain and display content with appropriate diagrams and real time animations. MEETS is being successfully used to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the Faculty.