The interactive Matlab course

This paper presents an obvious application of Web-based education, namely the design of an Interactive Matlab Course. The reason for starting this project was to make our first year engineering students familiar with the design and simulation tool Matlab, by providing them with an interactive Internet environment, which contains the Matlab program itself and all the course material including demos, exercises and tests. The course has been made attractive and tempts students to study anywhere at any time. As a result, the routine-like work of faculty staff members can be reduced. Students' reactions are predominantly positive: the freedom of working at their own pace together with the ability to ask questions during short organized sessions has shown to be both encouraging and effective.