E-learning encompasses many things to many people. Elliot Massie, a leading e-learning guru, states that Online learning is not about taking a course and putting it on desktop. It encompasses Combination of learning services and technology to provide high value integrated learning anytime and anyplace . Information technology plays the pivotal role of making resources more malleable and reusable, linking instructors and learners frequently and intensely, while adjusting to their requirements in novel ways, and compensating for limitations imposed by time and geography. Ultimately information technology solutions resulting from increased technology accessibility must foster a demand-oriented market for instruction. GOLEª aims to create a virtual learning simulator that is capable of customizing the pedagogy to the learners learning style. To properly design learn by doing scenarios, the learning environment must balance the learning objectives with authenticity. The key is to build a realistic environment which is complex enough to promote expectation failure and robust enough to support the learner at that point. Two of the major learning objectives for a goal oriented learning environment are the application of facts and building specific skills. The purpose of this research was to design, develop, implement and assess a Goal Oriented Learning Environment (GOLE) into the Civil and Environmental Engineering curriculum at Lehigh University. Also to design, develop, implement, and assess Internet-based instructional systems into the CEE curriculum. To achieve these objectives, a GOLE was implemented into two courses that were used as case studies in this research. These case studies describe the instructional design method utilized and the assessment involved to evaluate the courses. The instructional design method utilized nine steps: Discuss, Determine, Decide, Design, Develop, Implement, Assessment, Evaluation and Evolve. The designing of GOLE focused on: content, delivery platform, character development and story line. In order to assess and evaluate the GOLE, a series of five evaluations were created in order perform the analysis: skill matrix, course, performance, website evaluations and the DISC profile. The data was then analyzed to determine what parts of the course were effective. Based on the assessment results, it is evident that the students fulfilled the learning objectives in achieving the skills needed to solve the problem. The implemented GOLE and the Internet support system were highly effective tools in a university environment.