Applying WWW in teaching of course "Environmental Issues of Electric and Electronics Industry"

As information techniques are improving they give a chance to developed new tools for teaching. Web-based education material has been developed in the Laboratory of Electrical Engineering and Health at the Tampere University of Technology for a few years now. The aim of this paper is to present the course "Environmental Issues of Electric and Electronics Industry" and ideas for applying WWW in the teaching as well as a virtual laboratory exercise for the course. The course was carried out as a traditional and also as a virtual course on the Internet. The course consisted of lectures, calculation exercises, interactive exercises and supplementary study material in paper. The course was operated in a learning environment developed at the Laboratory of Electrical Engineering and Health.