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Workshop - Teaching and Learning with the WWW

The workshop started by Martin introducing himself and his project and asking for everyone present to introduce themselves and their Teaching and Learning with the WWW involvement. Several people were teachers involved in some project which was making use of the Web to deliver their courses in a mixed-mode environment, ie, Web-mediated classrooms/tutorials and a tutor to will deal face-to-face with students it necessary. A couple of projects were using the Web as their only Medium for delivering their distance learning course, and therefore, they were strictly electronic teaching/learning environment.

The projects' target audience varied from 2/3 days highly technical courses, music teachers/lecturers, 1 term computational engineering students, 1 term numerical analysis students, Virtual Library for science education users, high school students and primary school kids.

Most concerns were related to technical possibilities of the Web. One participant made the point that EPIC (EPcc's project) was just making use of the Web as an interface, whereas, her argument was that the whole idea was to adapt the Web to theirs, the teachers', needs, and not merely use the available technology to somehow implement their courses. This would be an interesting turning point, when we could start to asking ourselves how can we improve the Web specification such as it can be best used as a distance learning/teaching medium and not having the current Web technology dictating how and what we should teach ? And how would we discover those improvements ? Well, this turning point just did not happen.

Most people agreed that making students think for themselves is extremely important and that how the information is delivered has a huge influence in the student's learning process, therefore, some attention was given into modelling the material do be delivered via the WWW. Tom came with his problem solving paradigm as a way of presenting teaching material on the Web, his paradigm is briefly, you start by defining a problem; you represent your problem in different models; you choose 1 model; you define the methods; and you draw the conclusion.




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Ana Goldenberg
Wed May 22 16:27:06 BST 1996