Electronic and Mobile Learning Courseware Development for Mechatronic Training and Education

Knowledge is essential for the competitiveness of individuals as well as organizations.Thus the application of the latest methodologies and technologies are utilized to support knowledge acquisition,warehousing,distribution,and transfer.Means and methods of web 2.0 are useful to support this procedure.Especially,highly complex and very dynamic knowledge domains have to be accessible and applicable in the framework of learning network communities,including the stakeholders of training and education.Mechatronics for example is such an interdisciplinary,dynamic field of research and application.Based on intelligence,software,and hardware it is requiring special approaches for developing a courseware based learning and knowledge transfer environment.After defining the specifics of mechatronics education and postgraduate training in the context of e-education,the concepts of the development and utilization of mechatronic courseware can be deduced from e-learning 2.0 and mobile learning facilities,possibilities,and abilities.Mechatronic courseware will be developed by using authoring software and embedding the material into learning management systems with respect to general methods and rules of modern system and software development.As an example,the courseware is used for vocational training and further education especially in cooperation networks of educational institutions and SME.