New Teaching on the Introductory Course of Energy Science and Technology with Moodle

By Chin-Wen Liao and Tsai-Hsiu Chen.

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E-learning is a modern teaching method using computing technology. A lot of courses in every field are executed by e-learning. The education of energy science and technology is too. Many researches reveal the achievement that use e-learning to educate on the energy science and technology in Taiwan, but scarcely concentrate on higher education. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss student’s thinking of training program by e-learning on introductory course of energy science and technology. The training program consists of eighteen weeks and allows students for self-study. It also can be helpful to traditional courses which take place at the university (in eighteen weeks semester cycle). During the courses, students execute a program based on e-learning. The program tries to make an interactive tool available to students through a website. Moodle is chosen as the Course Management System (CMS) due to its cooperative philosophy, open-source and free development model. Moodle is activated concurrently with presented courses to provide activities and template questions to increase students’ profession in relevant subjects. An approach using social software to support e-learning is presented. The new paradigm on introductory course of energy science and technology can be fostered with the help of e-learning technologies, which take students’ advantage of familiarity with computers.

Keywords:	Moodle, E-learning, Energy Science and Technology

The International Journal of Learning, Volume 17, Issue 8, pp.273-284. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 1.073MB).

Prof. Chin-Wen Liao

Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Changhua, Taiwan

Chin-Wen Liao received both M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Education from National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1994 and 2002, respectively. Since August 2007, he has been an associate professor in Department of Industrial Education and Technology at National Changhua University of Education (NCUE) in Taiwan, R.O.C. At the same time, he is Director of Center for Tecaching Excellence at NCUE in Taiwan. He teaches courses in technology and vocational education, energy education, course and teaching, organization learning. His research interests include technology and vocational education, energy education of technology, and industry design.

Tsai-Hsiu Chen

Doctoral Student, Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Changhua, Taiwan

Tsai-Hsiu Chen is a doctoral student in the department of Industrial Education and Technology at the National Changhua University of Education (NCUE), Changhua, Taiwan, R.O.C. At the same time, she is Secretary of the Department of Academic Affairs at the Mingdao University in Taiwan. Her researches focus on management of education before 2007. She will study the effects of e-learning of higher education in the future.

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