E-Learning as a modern tool for optimizing learning outcomes in engineering education

Besides the power of in-class education, universities, including world-renowned, have been diligently investing into developing online learning infrastructures. For specific types of courses, online learning offers irreplaceable advantages that are either unattainable or costly with in class-education. Such advantages include round-the-clock material accessibility, utilizing online interaction capabilities, maximizing benefit from invited experts and others. The proposed project aims at developing and investigating the impact of online/hybrid education for a number of selected courses. The scope of the research is to a pilot online learning and investigate its impact through testing the students? critical thinking, projects and exams. It is expected that the outcome of the research project will lead to a new venue for online learning and will also help converge future efforts in this theme towards exploiting capabilities associated with online learning.