RE: [HAPS-L] courses utilizing "pc" hubs

["Pat Bowne" <Pat.Bowne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My course is a traditional format, but I have created tutorials that go with it and sometimes assign them during class time to replace lecture coverage of a topic, or use them as class activities. They are online at http://faculty.alverno.edu/bowneps/index.html.

Hope this helps -- 

Pat Bowne


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From: HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of MALACHOWSKY,KEN
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:38 AM
To: HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [HAPS-L] courses utilizing "pc" hubs



Is anyone involved with teaching any type of Biology course (preferably A&P) in which the course integrates lecture with self-paced pc-based auto tutorial lessons to reinforce the lecture material?  We are looking to develop a course in which pc technologies and traditional lecture materials get melded together.  Essentially all of the students could go to an open lab loaded with pcs and work on various concepts/homework problems/etc.  This is NOT an online course and it will NOT be a complete 3 hr lecture.  The students will meet for lecture a couple of hrs and then go to the lab.  This course will involve mastery learning, in which the student MUST be proficient in a given unit before they can move on to the next unit.  Thus they are forced to do their homework in a pc lab in the presence of tutors/instructors.  With traditional lecture courses or online courses, students obviously can be failing quizzes/exams but still move on to the next unit.  We are interested in mater
ials that would be out there (short videos, animations) that go beyond what the publisher will provide.  We are also interested in just finding out how the dynamics of the course works, if anyone currently teaches this way.  We are aware of a program called “MyMathLab” that utilizes this approach.  Does anyone utilize either their own homegrown version or publishers program that one could call “MyBioLab”



Thanks,



Ken Malachowsky         

Biology Instructor

Florence-Darlington Technical College