Major issues in research and development of computer–assisted instruction programs for Continuing Engineering Education

Financial and staffing pressures on tertiary educational institutions and rapidly advancing technologies have caused undergraduate course programs to become more difficult to deliver. With the ever increasing requirements from industry, engineering training is saturated with enormous numbers of new ideas and concepts. The majority of educators are increasingly inclined to face the challenge by placing more emphasis on continuing education. In addition efforts have been made to find more effective and reliable methods of instruction. The process of dissemination of information, through computer–assisted instructional material in many scholarly and extra–curricular activities, has been facilitated considerably by the advent of personal computers. This paper presents some of the important issues which should be taken into consideration when developing computer–assisted instruction programs for training purposes. Such undertakings require a comprehensive research infrastructure, which involves the investigati...