Dr Nathan Scott
University of Western Australia
Software system developer; content expert; teacher; learning system designer

Professor Brian Stone
University of Western Australia
Main content expert; problem set author; learning system designer

CONTACT
nscott@mech.uwa.edu.au

FlyingFish is a licensed commercial product. Universities that use it pay a start up fee of $AUD4000 for a single server license. In the second and subsequent semesters the fee is $1000. Any number of students and any number of courses may be served from a single host computer. In practice the number of students can be huge if the server is fast. This is a "grass roots" style development and we work closely with each new site that uses FlyingFish.

Some course material is provided free with the server, for example the dynamics problem set. There are also some separately licensed courses e.g., the Maths problem set and the Medicine development.

More information can be seen at website above.

Some publications relevant to this learning design include:

Alexander, S. & McKenzie, J. (1998) An evaluation of Information Technology projects for university learning, p. 169-179. CAUT, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.

Devenish, D. G., Entwistle, R. D., Scott, N., & Stone, B. J. (1994). A computer package for teaching curvilinear motion, Australasian Association for Engineering Education 6th annual conference, University of Technology Sydney, 11–14 December 1994, pp 718-721.

This paper describes a computer package that can diagnose errors in a vector which the student sketches on the screen.

Devenish, D. G., Entwistle, R. D., Scott, N., & Stone, B. J. (1994). Computer-Based Assessment In Engineering Teaching, Australasian Association for Engineering Education 6th annual conference, University of Technology Sydney, 11–14 December 1994, pp 682–686.

This paper describes the first version of the tutorial system (Brother).

Scott, N.W., Devenish, D.G., Entwistle, R. D., & Stone, B. J. (1994).Computer-based error detection in engineering dynamics education, Proceedings ASEE ’94 Conference, Edmonton, Canada, pp 2481–2485

This paper describes algorithms for robust assessment of a sketched graph.

Scott, N., Devenish, D. G., Entwistle, R. D., & Stone, B. J. (1995). Dynamic Teaching Solutions, International Journal of Engineering Education, v 12 Nº 5
[This paper may be viewed online at http://www.ijee.dit.ie/articles/120505/article.html]

Devenish, D. G., Entwistle, R. D., Scott, N., & Stone, B. J. (1995). An assessment package with diagnostic facilities, Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education, Selected Applications Track Papers, Singapore, December 1995, pp 101-107.

This paper provides a description of the tutorial system, 1995 version.