From Paper to Web and Viceverca Solutions for Educational Material

This article deals with some general problems related to specific conditions of the university level education. This issue was elaborated on the example of the two courses at the FGA. However, the approach and the results obtained could have a general application in educational programs. Every year approximately 180 students that enroll FGA, Zagreb, attend at the Chair of Mechanical Engineering the courses "Basics of Mechanical Engineering" and "Technical Mechanics". In 1999/2000, the book that covered ali the exercises in computer lab was pressed. In 2001/2002 this book was published at the Chair's web-site in three different formats (off-line PDF, on-line PDF and SHTML). Student's assignments were provided in form of GIF-images scanned from low quality printed items, and optimized both for web and for clearly printing. The choice of web-hosting provider, made after a sequence of trials, was crucial for accomplishing mentioned and ali the other tasks provided at the web-site.