Online Delivery Methodology

Our students are supported by Learning Support Officers (LSOs) for the duration of their studies. The LSO provide support for all non-academic matters. They encourage and sustain students; giving them their best chances of graduating successfully and enjoying their studies.
For students selecting to study a professional certificate, one LSO is dedicated to them from on-boarding to graduation, whereas students studying higher education programmes have a committed LSO for each module of study.

Students attend scheduled online webinars/tutorials which are live and interactive. The ‘virtual classroom’ allows students to question the presented content and discuss ideas with their lecturers and fellow students in real-time, using audio, a chatbox, and various other interactive tools. The webinars are designed to keep students motivated and engaged throughout their courses. They run bi-weekly for 60 to 90-minutes.  

When students apply for a course, they submit webinar times that would best suit them; these are adhered to where possible. The final dates and times of live webinars are then provided to students during their induction week. 

Each course has a minimum attendance requirement. All live webinars are recorded and made available on our Giving students recorded videos to watch and leaving them to study alone is not our approach. Instead, students participate in live and interactive webinars with their lecturers and fellow learners. The advanced web-conferencing software connects teachers and students in the online ‘virtual classroom’ – in real-time – using audio and a chat box. Other interactive activities are also available.

These scheduled weekly webinars (lasting between 60 and 90 minutes) keep students motivated and ensure that they are actively learning.

To determine the most suitable webinar times for each programme, all student preferences are considered during the enrolment phase. The live webinar schedules are then communicated to students during Orientation Week.

Each programme has a minimum webinar attendance requirement; the LSOs communicate this to students prior to a programme of study. The LSOs then monitor attendance. LSOs also audit the sessions to ensure the quality of teaching is high.

To ensure students can revise presented content, all live webinars are recorded and made available to them through our Learning Management System.

For more information, please visit our Practical Learning page.

Just like in a traditional engineering lab, students test and control physical equipment and sensors and view the results, via their browsers. These practicals are interactive, controllable, variable, and viewable over webcams – in real-time. The labs include data communication and protocols, scientific instrumentation, physical experimentation, the control and observation of circuits, systems, machinery, and robotic automation.

For more information, please visit our Practical Learning page.

Electromeet hosts simulation software for a multitude of engineering applications, including design, drafting, modelling and analysis, science education, programming, power network design, project management, industrial process control, and virtual plant field operations.

Our remote and virtual labs are hosted in the UK, Australia and South Africa. The Electromeet scheduling system enables students to book exclusive access to required labs.

For more information, please visit our Practical Learning page.

Having run online programmes since 2009 – under the auspices of EIT – we know our students have benefitted greatly from the live webinar sessions. These sessions are designed to enhance the learning experience, improve engagement and student retention. They:

• Connect teachers with their virtual classes, providing students with the opportunity to build their conceptual understanding of the programme content.
• Enable students to interact and network with each other.
• Establish a collaborative academic learning community.

ECT does its best to arrange the live sessions to suit all enrolled students, but optimal webinar scheduling is challenging because our students are based around the world. Our industry practitioners – ECT’s valued teachers – must also be considered. Many work in industry and are scattered globally. As industry practitioners, however, they bring their passion and valuable industry experience into the live virtual classrooms.

We encourage students to do their utmost to attend all interactive sessions. If this is not possible, all is not lost. Every live webinar session is recorded and uploaded to the Learning Management System shortly after it is completed. These recordings remain available to all students until the completion of the programme or module.

Lecturers and instructors are also available via email to answer programme related questions.

For more information, please visit our Practical Learning page.

Engineering professionals can get a little rusty with mathematics, physics and/or chemistry – the subjects which underpin most of ECT’s programmes. For those who feel that they would like to enrol in an ECT degree, we offer self-paced online video courses through our sister company, IDC Technologies, to address this gap.

These preparation courses have been designed to enable would-be students to begin their studies with confidence. The courses provide the fundamentals in the key concepts of maths, physics and chemistry – as they relate to engineering – and they include practical examples.

Preparation Maths, Physics and Chemistry
Fundamentals of Engineering Maths
Fundamentals of Engineering Physics
Fundamentals of Engineering Chemistry