Internet Driven Dynamic Question Analysis and Response for Engineering

The increasing complexity alongside the multi-disciplinarity of engineering education requires the provision of tools to enable students learn better. An important aspect of learning is stimulating and encouraging students to ask questions. It is also required that teachers and lecturers be able to provide answers to these questions. This goal can be realised by designing tools that enables the teacher have an improved understanding of the motivation for a student's questions and desired learning outcomes. The presented research proposes an internet based solution. The solution enables student- content interaction. The proposed solution enables the use of history and past records associated with student-content interaction (SCI). The solution designs student-based crawlers for future engineering education and realizing SCI goals. The proposed SCI executes two functions. The first function is enabling the teacher to have access to a student's learning related search history. The second function focuses on developing a context for identifying online content that can address the student's questions. The proposed research presents the architecture of a crawler enabling the execution of these functions. In addition, the presented research describes the integration of the proposed crawler with the internet. Research shows that SCI increases the number of teacher-student interaction channels by more than 50% on average.