Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

DOI

10.18260/1-2--47477

Publication Title

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Pages

14 pp.

Conference Name

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, June 23-26, 2024, Portland, Oregon

Abstract

Online instruction is no longer a new or seldom used modality. It has grown over the last few decades, reaching a pinnacle during the recent pandemic. Different institutions and different programs chose different approaches for the online delivery of courses, adopting either synchronous or asynchronous deliveries for online students, and hybrid delivery for mixed groups of campus and online students attending the classes in a live or synchronous manner. This paper’s main goal is to present the history of over 40 years of distance learning in an Electrical Engineering Technology program and how the delivery mode progressed over time. While the building blocks were fully in place at the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, the paper discusses the solutions to the problems encountered during the shift to fully online delivery and the lessons learned from this experience. The paper also presents the solutions for specific curriculum constraints, assessment considerations, and the relationship between course delivery and enrollment in a time when schools are competing for enrollments while facing a shrinking pool of potential students.

Rights

© 2024 American Society for Engineering Education. All rights reserved.

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Original Publication Citation

Popescu, O., Flory, I. L., Hackworth, J. R., & Kuzlu, M. (2024). Four decades of distance learning instruction in an electrical engineering technology program [Paper presentation]. 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://doi.org/10.18260/1-2--47477

ORCID

0000-0002-8719-2353 (Kuzlu)

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