Miguel,
You raise some important issues that I have been thinking about recently as
well. I would be interested in any empirical evidence indicating, pro or
con, changes in academic behavior in response to material provided on the
web. In order to deter students from missing class and skipping the text I
plan to continue incorporating information into my lectures that is not in
the text, having very short quizzes on the chapter BEFORE I start lecturing
on that information (to ensure that students are reading), having tests that
cover material from the book that was not covered in class (and visa versa),
and creating PowerPoint slides that INTRODUCE information that student can
quickly write down (terms mainly without definitions or wordy descriptions).
Any student skipping class and relying on a print or online version of the
slideshow will inevitably do very poorly. I would welcome any other
suggestions on ways in which we can incorporate new technology without
allowing students to eliminate reading textbooks and attending class.
Cheers,
Rob Flint
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Miguel Roig
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Copyright?
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>
> At 09:05 AM 6/9/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Many students have asked for copies of the slides,
> >as some images/graphs do not appear in their texts. As a result, I have
> >contemplated posting the slideshows on the web so that students
> may review
> >after the lectures. This is obviously for educational use, but
> I am still
> >very wary of copyright violations.
>
> I now use Power Point in most of my classes but I have only given
> access to the
> slides in a graduate Theories of Learning course that I taught in
> the Fall.
> There was _a lot_ of material covered in that course and some of
> the students
> had not had an undergraduate learning course. To avoid any
> copyright issues, I
> gave out copies of slides with _only_ text material or graphs
> that I created.
> I explained my concern with copyright issues to my students and
> they were more
> than satisfied with the text slides.
>
> However, I wonder about the educational usefulness of this
> practice. I have
> heard some anecdotal evidence (perhaps here in TIPS) that making
> such slides
> freely available encourages absentism and discourages studying textbook
> readings. Is anyone aware of any such evidence? After all, as
> some students
> might say, "why bother come to class when you can always get the
> lectures on
> the web".
>
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