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Re: Web-based courses



LUDWIK KOWALSKI wrote:

The original request was for the distance learning experience sharing,
not only for a list of sites (which is certainly very useful to potential
students). Do we have practioners of nearly-total web-based art of
teaching physics on our list? Is it possible? Is it desirable? What were
your reflections when you were directing distant learning?

For starters, I'm still working on the WEb-based course in Special
Relativity, the one that's described in AJP,"Teaching Physics On Line,"
with E. F. Taylor, Am J. Phys. 63 (12), 1090-1096 (1995). It's a 3-hour
course, class never meets in person (except for an orientation session
at the beginning.) All assignments, my "lectures", all homework problems
are on web pages; Homework submission is via forms right off the problem
page. We discuss the week's assignment on local newsgroups, and everyone
sends email to everyone else a week at a time throughout the course. If
anyone's interested in looking at it, it's at
http://www.uwf.edu/~rsmith/relativity/ST_orig.htm.

My project for the course this semester is to introduce whiteboard
conferencing into the course, though I haven't gotten started on that
yet.

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