Integrating WWW into an on-campus laboratory-based teaching
program
Lisa Wise,
Chris Hughes lisa.wise@sci.monash.edu.au
Lisa says about herself:
"Although my primary research area is in auditory neuroscience, my
teaching commitment is to our second-year laboratory program in
psychology, which I teach along with a team of dedicated
sessional teaching assistants. Chris Hughes, the co-author of the
paper, is one of the team who has been closely involved in course
design.
In an effort to teach significantly more students without "watering
down" the content of our lab classes, we have used the Web as a means
of disseminating background information to students, as a means for
data entry, as a site for posting lab class "summaries" and for
lab
class debriefing. We have also used newsgroups for on-going class
discussion. These augment rather than replace face-to-face teaching.
Lisa says about the paper:
"We hope that people will get ideas as to how to use the Web
creatively within non-technical courses to teach course content (in
our case, psychology content) while at the same time allowing
students to learn basic internet and computer skills.
We also wish to emphasise our experience that to use the Web
productively in teaching, the Web site needs to be maintained
primarily by the teaching staff rather than by technical support
staff. The fact that we are not from a strongly technical discipline
may encourage other "non-techos" to gain confidence to use the
Web
themselves."
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