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About
these sites
I began to develop course web sites in the spring of 2000,
when I participated as a mamber of the first team (social
science) to take part in the three-year "Technopedagogy"
initiative sponsored by nine northeastern Colleges and the
Mellon Foundation.
Our
team chose as its goal the creation of a modest "one-stop"
model web site that would in essence provide students with
24-hour access to the resources needed for a class (aside
from books to be purchased): syllabus, assignments, supplementary
readings (to take the place of awkward reserve readings or
horrendously expensive photocopied readers), and a discussion
forum.
The test case was the revised course, "Gold, Lead, and
Gunpowder" (which has since been adapted to serve as
a first-year tutorial—close to our ideal from the start).
I then went on to develop more complex sites for this and
other courses. In the meantime, our team was followed by others
from the humanities and natural sciences.
The
experiments proved so successful that the College has now
developed a much more sophisticated and easy-to-use standard
web site for courses. It was tested in academic year 2001-2,
implemented in first-year tutorials in fall 2002, and made
universally available in spring 2003.
Please note: Because this site is still undergoing
reconstruction, not all the course web sites are posted, and
not all of the posted pages may display full "functionality."
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