Interactive web applications, whether created from scratch with Java applets, for example, or put together from software such as the MATLAB Web Server and webMathematica, -- two services offered by Academic Computing -- can be a great aid in teaching difficult math and science concepts. This presentation will give an overview of these technologies and feature examples drawn from MIT courses. It will discuss what it takes to create such applications and how they are used in the classroom and/or in homework assignments.
Prof. Larry Bucciarelli, School of Engineering
Tools for Open-Ended Engineering
Applications demonstrated:
Real tools and data and interactive exercises for course 1.050 Solid Mechanics (Java applets)
Dr. Julie Greenberg, MIT-Harvard Health Sciences & Technology
Using Interactive Web Applications to Help Teach Math and Science Concepts: an Example from Signal Processing (ppt)
Applications demonstrated:
Spectral Analysis Demo for course HST.582J/6.555J/16.456J Biomedical Signal and Image Processing (MATLAB Web Server)
Prof. Haynes Miller, Department of Mathematics
Mathlets: a product of the d'Arbeloff Interactive Mathematics Project (pdf)
Applications demonstrated:
Mathlets for course 18.03 Differential Equations (Java applets)
MATLAB Web Server
http://matweb.mit.edu/
webMathematica
http://webmath-two.mit.edu:8080/webMathematica/
Java on Athena
http://web.mit.edu/acs/www/languages.html#Java
Daniel Jamous, Academic Computing, Information Services & Technology, N42-040G, x2-1383, jamous@mit.edu