At 08:49 19/06/97 +0100, Rzepa, Henry wrote:
As more people are thinking about developing structured courses of teaching and training Web-based materials in chemistry, so the need arises to think how such courses might operate in a multi-author, multi-course, many student and symmetric ( ie students need to submit files as well as read documents) environment.
None of this is specific to chemistry, but it turns out there are many interesting tools emerging for this type of application. We have heard very good reports about WebCT http://homebrew1.cs.ubc.ca/webct/ although there are other (perhaps more expensive) products such as FirstClass etc.
Does anyone have any experiences of using such tools?
We are evaluating Topclass from WBT systems in Ireland. Having just had a quick glance at the WebCT site it appears to offer a similar approach, but we have found it to be very bug ridden and unstable (hopefully WBT do not subscribe to this list!). However I would be grateful for information on any other systems that others have tried. Dr Paul Heelis Reader in Chemistry School of Science and Technology North East Wales Institute Mold Rd Wrexham Ll11 2AW UK Tel +44 1978 293372 fax +44 1978 290008 e-mail heelisp@newi.ac.uk editor@netsci.u-net.com Internet Journal of Science- Biological Chemistry http://www.netsci-journal.com First internet Conference on Photochemistry and Photobiology http://www.netsci-journal.com/97v3/ Infochem - chemist's database http://www.infochem.co.uk chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)