Interactive Tools for Teaching Electrical Engineering

Outcomes based teaching and learning requires monitoring of teaching and students learning. So far teaching can be monitored by video, document camera or screen recordings or by a coach. This creates hard to edit video content. Also static questionnaires are used for outcome monitoring and problem solving purposes. This paper presents a new approach using dynamic HTML5 web pages with JavaScript enabling creating editable and searchable open source content on the fly in real time during lecture. Data can easily be transferred from the web page to data processing tools. This allows explorations by students. Based on this automated problem generation and solving is shown in an example of root mean square voltage calculation. Results can be sent to a server to implement a live feedback system. All data and programs are embedded in the web document. Therefore it is much easier to reuse content, evaluate style and improve lectures increasing efficiency of teaching.