Assisting Quality Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Online Intelligent Tutorials

The explosion of electronic resources available like computers, laptops, mobiles can be used for educating students apart from the form of face-to-face encounters, either in a classroom setting, or on a one to- one basis in the library. Also, remote access to electronic resources using internet and web based software allows users to utilize these resources without physical presence. Higher education needs quality education to face dynamic market changes and this can be achieved if on line tutorial assists classroom teaching. Functionality of learning and teaching sub modules like conducting lectures, solving queries of students, submitting assignments, online tests etc can be done by online tutorial. This paper discusses main functionalities of education system, benefits of using online tutorial and results obtained using this system.

In this paper, functionalities of two main subsystems learning and teaching in higher level education are identified and ranks to these functionalities are given. Thereafter system is modeled considering constraints and online web based tutorial system is designed and developed. This software will assist needs of a real classroom. It can be used for individual learning or real classroom environment with the guidance of a human faculty during a formal education process. Also, a case study of Master of Computer Application fifth semester consisting of 60 students is carried out to show web based online intelligent tutorial for higher technical courses can improve quality of teaching and learning.