Flexible Learning via Web-Based Virtual Teaching and Virtual Laboratory Systems.

short video clips for better understanding of each topic. This multimedia approach attracts attention, generates interest to learn, and facilitates students’ understanding. Students will be able to apply the theory learned to finish the assigned tutorials. To evaluate what the students have learned from the content, this section includes automatically marked short quizzes. Students must answer correctly a certain percentage of questions at the end of a chapter before moving on to the next chapter. • Online discussion and related links—In order to simulate the classroom environment, this section provides an online chat room to allow discussion through the Web. Other functions in this section include Web linkage to IC manufacturers, downloading useful data sheets, links to other online lecture or tutorial sites, a search engine, and a glossary for detailed explanation for a particular term. These functions help students to obtain more theoretical and practical knowledge. • Comment and guest book—Students can submit questions and suggestions to the Web-master through the easy e-mail system. They can leave or view comments on the guest book provided in this section. Such feedback can provide for further improvement for this Web-based teaching system.