Re: Teaching over the Internet

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

I've talked to teachers at meetings who have tried Web or CD based texts and
they say that students are even more resistant to using these than their
printed books (and we all know how well those are read).   One would think
that with all the enhancements--integrated animations, simulations,
video--that these would really be attractive to students, but from my small
and unscientific sampling, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Rick

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ludwik Kowalski" <kowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:47 PM
Subject: Teaching over the Internet


> According to what I heard today from the local representative
> of Thomson publishing company, the Serway's textbooks
> (both the algebra and the calculus based versions) will be
> available electronically in Spring of 2002. This was sort of
> an unofficial information from a salesperson.
>
> Those who teach over the Internet, using either WebCT of
> Blackboard, will be able to receive the "ready to go" course
> content and modify it, if desired. The cost of all this will be
> in the price of the book, not very different from the current
> cost. A bank of quiz questions will be available for each
> Chapter.
>
> I am sharing what I heard today at an information session
> at our university. Materials are developed for those who
> practice "distance education" or for those supplement
> traditional face-to-face teaching with electronic contents.
> Are other popular physics textbooks going to be available
> in the same way? Please, share what you know.
> Ludwik Kowalski
> P.S.
> The company website is:
>
> http://www.custom.thomsonlearning.com
>
> The email of the editor is:
> chris.chiodo@thomsonlearning.com