Using Internet as a self-learning support : an application to open-channel hydraulics.

Bousmar, Didier [UCL] Docq, Françoise [UCL] Zech, Yves [UCL] Manfroid, Caroline [UCL] Gilson, L. [UCL]

An interactive open-channel hydraulics course on the Internet is presented. This course, currently under development, is designed to be used for self-learning in an open and dis- tance learning context. The purpose of this experimentation is to explore new ways of teaching, taking benefit of the interactive and multimedia capabilities of the Internet. However, the develop- ers are aware of some limitation, among all, the student’s feeling of insecurity when studying in a self-learning context. A first phase of evaluation in real conditions is reported.