A CD-ROM based laboratory in fluid mechanics part II: course assessment and evaluation

This paper evaluates an existing distance learning fluid mechanics laboratory, MET 335 and compares it to the on-campus version of the course. The course was developed at Old Dominion University and offered for the first time in the spring of 2000 as a video-based laboratory on CD-ROM. The overall assessment of the distance learning laboratory is based on a detailed analysis of the different components of student evaluation for the course. The analysis of these results is in turn compared with similar analysis of other existing on-campus laboratory courses taught by the same instructor. The assessment of the distance learning laboratory course shows that the video-taped CD-ROM laboratory is an effective way of teaching this laboratory course.