Application of virtual communication environment in engineering graphics teaching

Abstract

Collaborative content management systems (CMS) are employed to handle large collections of written material concurrently generated by multiple authors. A network based infrastructure allows members of a group to interactively and simultaneously create, review, and edit product documentation, web content, or other interrelated documents on-line and in real time. The tools are ideal for providing information to the students of engineering and computer graphics. The platform also invokes certain ethical considerations, including intellectual property and anonymity, to provide students with a valuable first-hand perspective of these issues as they are being studied. The paper defines the role of information system at the educational institution, the expedience to the lecturer of engineering and computer graphics the same as usefulness to the student. It also analyses aspects of CMS creation,validates need for system and goals, describes proposals given by the Student Council of VGTU and their needs and system realization tools. System operation is described at the end of the paper together with findings and predictable works.