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Design and implementation of national engineering education delivery system (NEEDS)
Author(s) -
Schmitz Daniel C.,
Wong Johnny S.,
Nelson Ron M.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380241105
Subject(s) - computer science , protocol (science) , simple (philosophy) , multimedia , work (physics) , course (navigation) , world wide web , engineering , medicine , mechanical engineering , philosophy , alternative medicine , epistemology , pathology , aerospace engineering
Educational course material is constantly being developed by professors. More and more of this course material is now on computers. It is often desirable for this material to be available through computer networks to the widest possible audience. Given a general audience, this access should be quick and simple. The National Engineering Delivery System (NEEDS) is a new courseware development and distributed system which allows faculty, students, industry and other users to easily access a large number of diverse courseware modules in an effective and efficient manner. This paper documents the design and implementation of a system that may make this idea a reality. The work includes the development of databases used to store course material information, the design of an efficient communication networking protocol for delivering courseware modules, and the development of user front‐ends for general access to the course material stored in the databases.