Re: Educational applications of the Web

Hal Abelson (hal@martigny.ai.mit.edu)
Tue, 2 Jan 96 18:10:23 -0500

Paul> I am organizing a session at the next NEEDHA (Nat'l E E Dept Hds Assoc)
Paul> meeting (March 1996) on educational applications of the Web. From time
Paul> to time I have heard of people actually delivering educational
Paul> material over the Web that makes signsificant use of the inherent
Paul> properties of the medium. I am most interested in university-level
Paul> material, and any examples from EE or CS fields would be best. Some
Paul> of you have pointed me to examples at other universities. I want to
Paul> have some success stories to quote in my session. Could you please
Paul> supply me with leads (including URLs if possible)? Thanks. .../Paul

At the risk of blowing my own horn, I was really happy with the way
that 6.805 turned out this fall -- swissnet.ai.mit.edu/6805

Also look at the "related courses" page off of the 6.805 page. There
are some interesting things there, such as the "structured debate"
format in Jan Lee's course at Virginia Tech.

For more CS-realted stuff, go to Yahoo and do a search under
"courses". You'll see a bunch of computer science things. I didn't
see any EE courses, though.

Finally, I am still enthusiastic about the stuff Dan Huttenlocher set
up for CS212 at Cornell (their version of 6.001):

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Courses/Current/CS212/CS212.html

for confidentiality reasons you cannot access the stuff without a
password, but there is a demo on Dan's home page at

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/dph/annotation/annotations.html

-- Hal