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Real-time Web courses generate real-world success.

By Funderburg, Keri A.
Publication: Public Roads
Date: Saturday, January 1 2005

FHWA's National Highway Institute (NHI) offers several courses that rely on Web capabilities. For example, NHI soon will offer the Web-based course Statistical Resources and Performance Measurement. Targeted at research directors and managers from State transportation agencies, the course will

instruct participants on where to find relevant materials and how to use various statistical techniques to measure roadway performance. Instructors will teach the course via the Web and connect in real time to participants across the Nation.

Although NHI offers both real-time (synchronous) and self-paced (asynchronous) courses, the reviews of the asynchronous courses have been mixed. "Research and experience have shown that having a synchronous component increases the completion rate for the course," explains Debbie Gwaltney, with FHWA's Office of Professional Development.

NHI and FHWA's Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty are developing an asynchronous course to serve as a prerequisite to the existing course, NEPA Transportation Decision Making (#142005A). The advantage of an online prerequisite course is that instructors can be certain that all participants will have the same baseline knowledge because each will either have taken the course or tested out of it.

According to Gwaltney, "This asynchronous course will enable the instructor-led course to delve deeper into the subject than currently is possible without covering material that some participants already may know." For more information on NHI's e-learning opportunities, visit www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov.

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