E-Classroom

Monday, Stardate 1997.04.25 16:03

A work in progress

Recent Additions, 197.04.255.

Examples at UVM

The following list is a loose compilation of on-line instructional activity at uvm -- including "home pages in progress", list servers, and newsgroups. These efforts begin to show a variety of approaches and diversity of results. All classes won't electrify the same way. Even different classes from the same instructor will work out differently.

Botany

160: Plant Ecology (3-3) Introduction to interactions among plants and their environments. Dynamics of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems emphasizing populations, physiological ecology, and experimental design and analysis.

Computer Science (CS)

21 Computer Programming 1 (3-1)- Introduction to algorithmic problem solving. Designed to provide a foundation for further studies in computer science. Credit not given for more than one in the pair CS 11, 21. Prerequisite: Math. 17 or 19 or concurrent enrollment in 21. Four hours. Jeanne Douglas (Note the "How to Succeed" section of this syllabus, and especially useful addition to a syllabus for beginning students.)

104 Data Structures (3-) Lists, Strings, Arrays, Trees and Graphs. Storage systems and structures. Storage allocation and "garbage collection." Searching and sorting techniques. Generalized data management systems. Prerequisite: Math. 104; Corequisite: 103. Three Hours. Sanjoy Baruah

Education (EDEL)

11 - Computers in the Elementary Classroom

English

21 - British Literature

Psychology

001 - Introduction to Psychology (3-3)

Sociology (SOC)

01 Introduction to Sociology (3-0) Introduction to the entire field, emphasizing the behavior of the normal adult human being. Three hours.

Examples Elsewhere

MIT Media Studies 113: Tools for Thought

MIT Media Lab, Spring 1996. Notable for its photographic documentation of student projects.

UAlberta SLIS 598 - Applications of technology in Libraries

These term projects were created by the students in the LIS 598 (Applications of Technology in Libraries) course in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. They contain a substantial amount of useful i nformation on a number of topics of current interest, and are presented here with the hope that they may be useful to the library community.

UCLA LIS 200 - Information in Society

Exeplary Resources

• The Electronic Classroom Checklist
• Butler, Brian, Using WWW / Mosaic to Support Classroom-Based Education: An Experience Report
• O'Donnell, James J., New Tools for Teaching , Department of Classical Studiesand Center for Computer Analysis of Texts, University of Pennsylvania. Presents an interactive WWW exploration and demonstration of practical applications of Internet technology for teaching, including his own work at Penn.
• Earth 002 The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University has made available a series of multimedia resources that support instruction in Earth System Science. Designed for the Earth Sciences 002 course for non-science majors at Penn State, these materials would be very useful in middle and secondary science classes as well. These materials are an interdisciplinary introduction to the processes, interactions, and evolution of the Earth's biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere.
• The Electronic Classroom at UCSD is a joint academic / library project.
• Engines for Education is a "hyper-book" written by Roger Schank, Director of The Institute for Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, and Chip Cleary, a graduate student of Dr. Schank, about what's wrong with the education system, how to reform it, and especially, about the role of educational technology in that reform.
• The Focus on Teaching Project is a University of Michigan seminar series.
• Global Network Academy is a consortium of online higher education projects. See the educational and research organizations pointer.
• The Purdue University Online Writing Laboratory The Writing Lab [allows] to talk with tutors about planning and writing their papers. On-line, the Writing Lab offers other services as well, including some of our materials on topics such as commas, resumes, formats (such as MLA or APA) for citing sources, non-sexist language, and other information. You can also find useful links to sources of information for your research papers and other writing.
• The Sewanee Paperless Classroom Project aims are two: first, to make the classroom transition from paper-based products and "book thinking" to electronically-based instructional materials, and second, to lead non-science students into this project in a way that is inviting and non-threatening.
• University of Connecticut Virtual Classroom Project [...] will explore the issues involved in providing instructional materials over the campus network as an extension of the Library's traditional Reserve function. As a pilot project, it is highly experimental and is subject to change without notice. The Virtual Classroom / Electronic Course Reserves make course readings and reserve materials accessible at any hour to the University of Connecticut community. Reserve materials include both text and image files, and are available to users for viewing on-line, saving to a local drive, and printing.
• Wesleyan University provides an augmented catalog which contains course syllabi as well as descriptions. Of particular interest is the full text searching that allows rapid identification of courses relevant to a particular interest.
• The World Lecture Hall At the Uniersity of Texas at Austin Web Central contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc.

Last updated, Monday, 1997.04.28