International Conference on Engineering Education and Research "Progress Through Partnership" © 2004 VSB-TUO, Ostrava, ISSN 1562-3580 1157 Integration and Collaboration of Distance Learning to Conduct the Curricula Yo-Ping Huang Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan 10451 R.O.C., e-mail: yphuang@ttu.edu.tw Tsun-Wei Chang Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan 10451 R.O.C., e-mail: alan1107@ms5.hinet.net Dankai Liu Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan 10451 R.O.C., e-mail: dankailiu@hotmail.com KEYWORDS: distance teaching/learning, engineering education, Mars exploration. ABSTRACT: Most engineering Institutes and Universities utilize adapted e-learning systems to help learners get personal-suited information. The common characteristic of these efforts is presenting various courses by using multimedia materials. We have investigated technologies, methods and tools of e- learning applications. Based on the studies, we design and implement a distance teaching/learning system which combines on-campus courses and remote activities. In this paper, we propose our distance teaching/learning model. Our school creates the corporative distance learning curricula. Our goals are to promote the students’ ability of solid learning, innovation, knowledge acquirement, teamwork spirit, and communication skills. In order to help our students, we set up the pedagogic scenarios to embed engineering education into our distance teaching/learning system. We offer the engineering education related courses and take students to participate in the activities of Mars exploration. After these Mars exploration activities, students are more interested in the on-campus courses. This proves that the distance teaching/learning courses plus with remote live activities can stimulate students’ learning motivation. Besides, we describe the main goals, motivation, detailed methods, and related activities of our distance teaching/learning system in this paper. Our distance teaching/learning system has the following characteristics: 1) Interactive-based, 2) Activity-oriented, 3) Learner-centric oriented, 4) Personalization, 5) User-friendly, 6) Participation, 7) Geographic, and 8) Rich informative materials. The main contribution in our engineering education is that we integrate all education resources like the remote activities to enhance the contents of related courses. 1 INTRODUCTION In facing the challenges of the coming digital economical era, well-utilization of mature e-learning tools and collaboration with other engineering education resources are the key factors to upgrade our manpower. In order to achieve this task, building a practical e-learning system is the turning point issue. We focus on efficiently integrating the most talent persons from industrial circles to academic circles to stimulate our students’ inspiration. Hence, we can raise the high value-added students in this century. Under the rational concept, our university creates a corporative distance teaching/learning curriculum. Our goals are to promote the students’ ability of solid learning, innovation, knowledge acquirement, teamwork spirit, and communication skills. In order to help our students, we set up the pedagogic scenarios to embed engineering education into our distance teaching/learning system. Along with the e-learning field becomes more and more mature, a lot of e-learning products beyond the simple “page-browsing” courses have driven the universities, government, and industry up to date. In the near future, e-learning products will allow the users to have full control of their own learning flow. Then, the learners can learn more efficient and save their time and money. An integrated e-learning