WebBased Tutorials Committee an adhoc IEEE MTTS Adcom Committee Status Report October 2005

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Web-Based Tutorials Committee(an ad-hoc IEEE
MTT-S Adcom Committee)Status Report October
2005

• Madhu S. Gupta
• October 1, 2005

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Web-Based Tutorials Committee Composition

• Madhu S. Gupta
• Ralph Levy
• Steve Kenney (Education Committee)
• Tim Lee (Electronic Information Committee)
• Samir El Ghazaly (Publications Committee)

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Web-Based TutorialsMission Statement

• Assist MTT-S Members
• to enlarge their knowledge base and skill set
• through the use of web-based materials
• Promote MTT-S membership
• among students as well as professionals,
• by attracting and retaining members
• Accomplish goals within the limitations of
  resources
• -- cost as well as volunteer time

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Possible Roles for IEEE MTT-S

• MTT-S as Distributor of Materials
• Educational material reviewed, but not
  backed-up
• On Whatever is available basis
• Similar to a publisher role
• MTT-S as provider of Instructional Services
• Similar to a Training Institute
• Materials approved
• Some effort at sufficient coverage

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Web-based TutorialsDevelopment and Logistics

• Author Selection / Screening
• Role for Technical committees
• Modularization for linking
• Concept mapping for precise identification of the
  pre-requisites and the destination
• Annotated References
• Distinct reading lists for (i) pre-requisites,
  (ii) source citations, and (iii) deeper
  exploration
• Length
• Short (lt 4 hrs.), for reuse and modular assembly
• Distribution
• Through MTT Website
• Author incentives

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Challenges

• Quality control
• Cost control
• Competition (with publishers, university
  extensions, short-course providers)
• Mechanism for regular updating
• Coverage of the entire domain of interest
• Cohesiveness uniformity among modules
• Author incentives

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Request to you

• Please provide feedback to the committee