3rd International IFAC Workshop on Internet-based Control Education, Orlando, Florida, USA

The IFAC IBCE’10 workshop is the third in a series, whose precedents are the IBCE’01 (held in Madrid) and IBCE’04 (Grenoble), focusing on delivering control education using new information and communication technologies.

The motivation for this workshop is the recognition that student learning can be enhanced through the judicious and effective use of online resources and services accessible on the Internet. New Information and Communication Technology for Education provides many ways to enhance and expand educational activities and services. A wide range of educational material is now available in a variety of formats including audio and video podcasts, simulations and animations, and is easily accessible through Internet. Web accessible databases and online laboratory resources allow teachers to share and reuse pedagogical material.

This workshop will serve as an international forum for interaction among engineers, scientists, and practitioners of control engineering who are interested in adopting and promoting Internet-based methodologies for teaching control engineering.

Anyone interested in Control Engineering may become an IFAC Affiliate.

Topics

Under the main theme Connected Learners, the workshop will address the following topics:

 - Internet-based control education
 - e-learning in control engineering
 - Teleoperation
 - Distributed pedagogical agents and smart devices
 - Virtual and remote labs, virtual reality
 - Open Learning repositories
 - Web-based educational environments
 - Personal learning environments
 - Social software (Web 2.0) in control education
 - Continuing control education
 - Internet-based control education assessment
 - Quality Assurance in e-learning
 - Social and educational issues in developing countries
 - Collaborative learning
 - Problem-based learning
 - Online tutoring
 - Closing the gap between control education practice and control engineering practice