At 08:49 19/06/97 +0100, you 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?
Though I do not have such experience yet, I do know of two other similar commercial systems. These are: WBT/TopClass http://www.wbtsystems.com Web Course in a Box http://www.madduck.com I believe that these pages hold details of participating institutions. A related issue is that of Computer Assisted Assessment engines using the WWW, perhaps combined within such course management systems. The Birmingham Medical School MedWeb is a good example in my opinion as is the Clyde Virtual Assessment Engine. Both have low client requirements: http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/teaching.html http://cvu.strath.ac.uk/campus.html specific details are at: http://cvu.strath.ac.uk/ae Another interesting development on the CAA / web side is TML (tutorial mark up language) at Bristol: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/mru/netquest/tml/ Please post this to the list of you think it is of use. Myles Danson Teaching Support / IT Coordinator Chemistry Department Loughborough University Loughborough Leicestershire 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)