N E E D S Premier Courseware User Group Session The National Engineering Education Delivery System Workshop on Advanced Technology for Engineering Education and Training February 24-25, 1998 Brandon Muramatsu NEEDS Project Manager mura@needs.org N E E D S Premier Courseware User Group Session ASEE 1998 June 30, 1998 Prof. Alice Agogino, UC Berkeley Prof. Kurt Gramoll, Univ. of Oklahoma Prof. Sheri Sheppard, Stanford Univ. Moderator: Brandon Muramatsu Originally Published 1998. Republished 2013. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/)

Quality Review of Courseware on the NEEDS Database Courseware on NEEDS, as with any scholarly effort, requires review to assure quality and provide recognition. The Quality Review of Courseware effort was developed to advance the field of technology-enhanced learning review as well as continually raise-the-bar for excellent courseware. NEEDS has developed and is implementing a comprehensive, tiered peer review including: non-reviewed, endorsed, and premier courseware. In addition to the three areas already in operation, we are developing two new forms of review that go hand in hand with the development of our on-line engineering education community. Establish Credibility of NEEDS as a Source of Quality Educational Material Enhance Recognition of Scholarly and Creative Effort of Courseware Developers Levels of Review Non-reviewed Gestalt Peer Review: Endorsed Courseware National Competition: Premier Courseware User Reviews: User experiences with courseware, contributed by community members Feature Reviews: Extended reviews on NEEDS that highlight courseware New!

Premier Award Criteria See the previous page for additional information. See http://www.needs.org/premier/1998/criteria.html for more info Engineering Content Is the content error free? Software Design Is it well designed and usable? Instructional Design Will students learn from the courseware? We recognize that all the categories are interwoven.

Evaluation Criteria Engineering Content: Software Design: Premier Award Criteria (cont.) See the previous page for additional information. Engineering Content: Accuracy of content Organization of content Consistency with learning objectives Software Design: Engagement User interface and navigation Interactivity Multimedia use Technical reliability

Evaluation Criteria, cont. Premier Award Criteria (cont.) See the previous page for additional information. Instructional Design: Interactivity Cognition/conceptual change Content Multimedia use Instructional use/adaptability

Premier Courseware of 1997 Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio Copies are available by emailing premier@needs.org or stop by the NEEDS Booth (#123) at ASEE 1998 in Seattle, WA. Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio - Prof. Alice M. Agogino, aagogino@me.berkeley.edu, University of California at Berkeley Drill Dissection and Bicycle Dissection - Prof. Sheri D. Sheppard, sheppard@cdr.stanford.edu, Stanford University Mars Navigator - Prof. Kurt Gramoll, gramoll@ou.edu, University of Oklahoma Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio Drill Dissection and Bicycle Dissection Mars Navigator See http://www.needs.org/premier/1997/ for more info Distribution 600 Copies to FIE ‘97 Participants 300 Copies to Engineering Deans 600 Copies available at ASEE ‘98

1998 Premier Award Competition We are now accepting submissions for the 1998 Premier Award Competition. Full submission information can be found at http://www.needs.org/premier/1998/. Submit by July 31, 1998 to be eligible for the 1998 Premier Award Competition To be presented at FIE 1998, Tempe, Az See http://www.needs.org/premier/1998/ for more info

University of California Contact Info: Contact Information See below. References Agogino, A.M. and W. H. Wood III, “The Synthesis Coalition: Information Technologies Enabling a Paradigm Shift in Engineering Education,” Keynote talk, in Hyper-Media in Vaasa’94: Proceedings of the Conference on Computers and Hypermedia in Engineering Education (Ed., M. Linna and P.Ruotsala, Vaasa Institute of Technology) pp. 3-10. Agogino, A. M. and Muramatsu, B., “Expanding the National Engineering Education Delivery System as the Foundation for an On-line Engineering Education Community,” Proposal to the National Science Foundation, March 1998. Agogino, A. M. and Muramatsu, B., “The National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS): A Multimedia Digital Library of Courseware, to appear in International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 13, No. 5, 1998. Eibeck, P., “Criteria for Peer-Review of Engineering Courseware on the NEEDS Database,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Special Issue on the Special Issue on the Application of Information Technologies to Engineering and Science Education, Volume 39, Number 3, pp. 381-387, August 1996. URL: http://www.needs.org/needsinfo/papers/IEEE96.eibeck/index.html. Synthesis Coalition and NEEDS, “Premier Courseware of 1997,” 3 CD-ROM set, Berkeley, CA: Synthesis Coalition and NEEDS, 1997. Brandon Muramatsu NEEDS Project Manager mura@needs.org 3112 Etcheverry Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1750 (510) 643-1817