An Educational Desing For Courseware Relating To Heating Load Calculations in Buildings

Courseware is educational software, designed to create an instructional environment, for the purpose of facilitating learning. Courseware is being developed to support training in a wide range of engineering disciplines, including Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) design. It is anticipated that courseware will be used much more, to support current training practices in HVAC design, in order to make training more effective, efficient, and accessible. Current practices in courseware design indicate very few courseware products are designed using formal methods. This has led to courseware, that in many ways, fails to address learner's needs. If courseware is to be effective, in supporting training in HVAC design, then courseware must be developed using formal methods. In this paper, a formal courseware design model is described. An Educational Design (ED) is carried out, for courseware relating to heating load calculations in buildings, resulting in a detailed conceptual description of how the courseware appears to the user. Sixteen screens are shown, depicting how the courseware guides the user, in learning how to perform heating load calculations in buildings.