Dynamic Web-Based Tutorial Tool

As the number of students increases quite dramatically in almost every subject taught at a university, delivering tutorials to large classes and providing timely assessment and feedback becomes the major challenge. These problems are especially acute in technical field-of-practice subjects that aim to teach specific numeracy and problem solving skills. In this paper we describe a generic framework for delivering and assessing tutorials over the Web that would enable us to create Web tutorials in several technical subjects. A sample implementation in one of the early stage technical subjects (Electronics & Circuits) will be described. The system, implemented in ASP .NET, presents each student with a number of unique sets of problems (generated by software, not randomly chosen from a fixed pool), guides him/her through the solutions and grades the work. A strict deadline is enforced for each set to encourage systematic approach to learning.