Unified methodologies, formats and outlines in online engineering education

Online education in engineering is developing as the communication technology advances. Although many online courses are being presented worldwide they have not been broadly accepted. For the online engineering education to be well successful and outperform traditional on-campus education, much has been done since ten years ago. To satisfy the five pillars in online education introduced by Sloan Consortium, there are still rooms for improvement [1]. Access, Learning effectiveness, student satisfaction, faculty satisfaction and cost effectiveness are the five metrics that drive investigations into online education.