Active:

The Internet as an interactive collaboration tool.

1. Student driven:

• Chat rooms (monitored or not) and email (Yahoo, Messenger, Skype).
• List servers.
• Student feedback form page.
• Peer evaluation/collaboration (student peer review, blogs, classroom response systems).
• Constructing knowledge bases (Enviromental physics Web page, wiki).

2. Faculty driven:

• Electronic resources for teaching: ComPADRE.
• Online office hours (email or video).
• Pre-lecture quizzes (non functional at present).
• Lecture/lab comprehension assignments (streaming video, pod casting).
• Online homework (Aris,WebAssign).
• Faculty knowledge bases (Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy- now published in hard copy, was an online collaborative bibliography with contributions from around the world).
• Online Teaching systems:
  • Mastering Physics.
  • Just in Time Teaching; JiTT (no longer functioning).
  • Moodle.
  • Sakai.
• Integrated course management systems:
  • Oncourse at IU.
  • Adobe Connect.
• Hybrid courses (part lecture, part web).
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3. Others (examples later):

• Two way video.
• Simulations.
• Real laboratory exercises.
• Course management systems.

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