Crosstalk meeting on September 16, 1997
Web-based Environments for Teaching and Learning
Participants:
- John Williams, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Nishikant Sonwalkar, CAES
- Yunpeng Wang, EAPS
- Katie Livingston, Academic Computing
John Williams spoke about his project that seeks to institutionalize
in a scalable way systematic support of large numbers of courses on
the Web. He is concentrating on common elements that are necessary to
supporting a course, such as registration, conferencing systems,
ability to manage and post large numbers of documents, etc, using
Lotus Domino as the underlying database. His project is not
concentrating on the ccore ontent of the course.
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Yunpeng Wang spoke about the Geosys
modules that are used to support 12.550 and the Profession Masters
Program in EAPS.
Nishikant Sonwalkar described activities and services offered by the Hypermedia Teaching Facility in CAES
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Katie Livingston discussed what other universities are doing in this
area, and pointed to a few departments within MIT that are actively
developing Web-based or Web-enhanced courses. She suggested that a
group get together to develop a "requirements document" that
accurately expresses MIT's needs in this area, to help us decide where
resources need to be focussed.
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