Steve Hansen, Faculty of Informatics, Science & Technology, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, PO BOX 555 Campbelltown, NSW,2650, Australia s.hansen@uws.edu.au
Yogesh Deshpande, Faculty of Informatics, Science & Technology, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, PO BOX 555 Campbelltown, NSW,2650, Australia y.deshpande@uws.edu.au
San Murugesan, Faculty of Informatics, Science & Technology, University of Western Sydney Macarthur, PO BOX 555 Campbelltown, NSW,2650, Australia s.murugesan@uws.edu.au
Education, Flexible Delivery, Instructional Diffusion, Web Based Teaching
This paper presents work being carried out by the PlatformWeb Development Team in conjunction with the Web Based Information Systems & Methodologies Research Group (WebISM), the Centre for Enhancement of Learning & Teaching and the Department of Computing & Information Systems (Faculty of Informatics, Science & Technology) at the University of Western Sydney Macarthur, in making use of the Web medium for online delivery of courses.
In particular, the paper presents findings and recommendations of a pilot study run run over a thirteen week teaching in the later half of 1998 with 19 subjects and 800 students. This pilot study being part of a major ongoing project called PlatformWeb.