eyu@umd5.umd.edu (Ellen Yu) (03/14/91)
At long last! I've finally gotten around to putting together this summary. Thanks to all who sent replies, specifically: Mark _E_ Amos mamos@uafhp.uark.edu Jonathan White whitejon@acf5.NYU.EDU Marc H. Brown mhb@src.dec.com Rick Conn xanadu@ada2.crd.ge.com james peterson petersja@debussy.cs.colostate.edu Guy Helmer dsuvax!ghelmer@uunet.UU.NET Evelyn Stevens evelyn@brahms.udel.edu Russell Shackelford russ@prism.gatech.edu Robert Brewer bbrewer@lamar.ColoState.EDU Ellen Spertus erspert@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Stan Godlovitch sgodlovitch@Janus.MtRoyal.AB.CA George Leach ames!pdn.paradyne.com!reggie Mike Clarke MCLARKE@AC.DAL.CA Sally Anger SRA3@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Al Yackulic YACKULIC@sask.usask.ca Martha Welte welte@cs.Buffalo.EDU Peter Montgomery pmontgom@math.ucla.edu Lisa Wolfisch lingling@wam.umd.edu Herb Brown hb136@leah.Albany.edu Here's my original request: #Hi all! I'm not sure if this is the right group to post to - if it isn't #I'd appreciate suggestions on where to post this. # #I'm a graduate student in Computer Science and I'm working on a project #for a course. I'm looking for colleges and universities that have #implemented the use of computers in classrooms. I'm looking for all #types of applications - from using a computer for presentations during #a lecture to a room full of computers networked together for collaborative #work. I'd appreciate any information on schools and names of contacts and #a description (if you have one) of what's being done. # #My target is applications in undergraduate education from community #college #level to large universities. # #Thanks in advance for any suggestions/info provided. Please e-mail #responses. #If anyone is interested in the information I receive, I will post a summary. # #- Ellen Yu Here are the replies: From: Mark _E_ Amos <mamos@uafhp.uark.edu> We use computers in classrooms here in various ways you have described. If you are interested in more info you can either mail me (some info) or get hold of the people/places I list below (more detailed info). Dr. Ron Skieth - Department Head Computer Science Engineering Dept. University of Arkansas Engineering Hall 313 Fayetteville, AR 72701 (501)575-6036 Dr. Jim Gattis - Associate Dean College of Engineering Office of the Dean Bell Engineering Center 4183 Fayetteville, AR 72701 (501)575-3051 Hope this helps! Mark -- oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Mark _E_ Amos University of Arkansas Computer Science Engineering mamos@uafhp.uark.edu mea1@engr.uark.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Man's mind, when stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension." -Oliver Wendell Holmes oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: whitejon@acf5.NYU.EDU (jonathan white) try contacting Jerry Marsdon (Marsden) at U.C. Berkeley they've done a whole lot of stuff thatwas recently implemented try marsden@cartan.berkeley.edu or @math.berkeley.edu jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mhb@src.dec.com (Marc H. Brown) Here are a few references about the "Electronic Classroom" at Brown University, a lecture hall with about 60 Apollo workstations used mostly for teaching computer science courses: AUTHOR = Marc H. Brown and Norman K. Meyrowitz and Andries van Dam, TITLE = Personal Computer Networks and Graphical Animation: Rationale and Practice for Education, JOURNAL = ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, VOLUME = 15, NUMBER = 1, MONTH = February, YEAR = 1983, PAGES =296--307 AUTHOR = Marc H. Brown and Robert Sedgewick TITLE = Progress Report: Brown University Instructional Computing Laboratory JOURNAL = ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, VOLUME = 16, NUMBER = 1, MONTH = February, YEAR = 1984, PAGES = 91--101 AUTHOR = Marc H. Brown and Robert Sedgewick TITLE = Techniques for Algorithm Animation JOURNAL = IEEE Software VOLUME = 2 NUMBER = 1 MONTH = January YEAR = 1985 PAGES = 28--39 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: xanadu@ada2.crd.ge.com (Rick Conn) Ellen, I saw your posting asking for people to respond who have used PCs in the classroom. I teach a graduate/senior undergraduate course in software engineering with Ada at the University of Cincinnati, and I use a PC during class for live demonstrations and online, in-class programming exercises. I also teach Ada and C programming classes (introductory and advanced) at General Electric for their after-hours program, and I use a PC during class for these courses at GE as well. Finally, I have given presentations (at conferences and at General Electric) using a PC to present the slides and animate the presentations. Feel free to contact me at rconn@ada2.crd.ge.com if you want to discuss this topic further. Rick Conn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: petersja@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (james peterson) Organization: Colorado State Computer Science Department The University of Illinois pioneered the PLATO system (now sold by Control Data) and uses their (quite mature) system in a wide range of classes. The Illinois English dept uses networked PC's to teach composition. Colorado State used a somewhat more sophisticated system to teach composition, making use of ATT's Writer's Workbench to diagnose grammatical problems. I am not certain, but I think the University of Utah (or Utah State) uses a similar system.... -- james lee peterson petersja@CS.ColoState.edu dept. of computer science colorado state university "Some ignorance is invincible." ft. collins, colorado (voice:303/491-7137; fax:303/491-2293) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dsuvax!ghelmer@uunet.UU.NET (Guy Helmer) Hi! Here at Dakota State University, our mission was changed in 1984 to focus on providing instruction in computers. To that end, DSU received large amounts of funding to purchase large amounts of computing equipment and develop or purchase software. Now, we have one computer for every six or seven students and a reasonably large network to support the computing systems. Originally, the plan was to develop an authoring package that would allow any teacher to develop lessons that a student could work through on the computers --- a one-on-one, interactive computer-based learning system. After several years and administration changes, the university has settled on using mostly off-the-shelf software packages (WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, dBASE) to do regular coursework on. The change in the university is profound --- students and faculty have become very reliant on computing systems in ways that we hadn't planned seven years ago. The original plan to develop computer-based interactive learning systems has all but been abandoned. The demand placed on our computing systems by both the software packages and the users of the software requires our Computing Services department to continually plan and implement upgrades in the facilities to keep abreast of demand. I believe our experience is quite unique. If you wish to discuss it, I would be happy to answer any questions. -- Guy Helmer helmer@sdnet.bitnet, uunet!dsuvax!ghelmer Dakota State University Computing Services ------------------- (605) 256-5315 MidIX -- networks, databases, DOS, UNIX, & MINIX ------------- (605) 256-2788 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: evelyn@brahms.udel.edu (Evelyn Stevens) Hi, Ellen: The list of applications at the University of Delaware is pretty long and varied; so much so, that it would be easier for me and probably more useful to you if I sent you the latest Annual Report from Academic Computing and Instructional Technology. The report describes the latest applications and lists the names of faculty and professional staff contacts. I could mail one out next week (for the academic year 1989/1990). If you'd rather get a one- or two-page digest, I'll give it my best shot, probably during the weekend or early next week. You could have both. I would be interested in a summary of responses. Let me know, whichever way. Evelyn V. Stevens Sr. Applications Programmer/Analyst ----- Evelyn V. Stevens E-mail: evelyn@brahms.udel.edu Academic Computing Services evelyn@udelvm.bitnet 035 Smith Hall Phone: 302-451-6812 (late p.m.) University of Delaware 453-4240 (late a.m. Newark, DE 19716 to mid p.m.) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: russ@prism.gatech.edu (Russell Shackelford) We're doing some interesting stuff here at GaTech WRT undergrad CS instruction. It concerns capturing and using data about student performance to improve the instructional process. We're using a soon-to-be-released MS-DOS product called Optimus. Don't have time to get into this at the moment. If you want more info, contact me via e-mail in a couple of weeks. I should be able to tell you some specifics at that time..... good luck with your work, russ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bbrewer@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Robert Brewer) Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 I am not sure if this is what you want Ellen, but Dr. David Peters did his dissertation at the University of Illinois on the implementation of computers in music classrooms. He now owns a company in Champaign, IL called Electronic Music Software (I think). . He is on the faculty at the U of I and can be contacted in the music building in Urbana, IL. (217)333-2029. Dr. Peters is probably abrest of all the educational applications, particularly those in music. Hope this helps. Bob |-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=| | Bob Brewer, Instructor of Low Brass and Music Education | | Director, Jazz Studies and the Rocky Mountain Jazz Orchestra (RMJO) | | Department of Music, Theatre and Dance | | Colorado State University at Fort Collins | | Office phone: 303-491-6957 | | | | Internet address: bbrewer@lamar.ColoState.EDU | |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erspert@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT has an excellent undergraduate computer system, Project Athena. It is both used individually and for classes. The manager of external relations is Catherine Avril. Her email address is cavril@athena.mit.edu. Her phone number is 617-253-0141, and her address is: Project Athena E40-351 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Hope that helps. Ellen Spertus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: sgodlovitch@Janus.MtRoyal.AB.CA Ellen Yu, Further to your posting on the newsnet, I can offer some information about my own use of computers in the classroom. Every semester for the past 5 years, I've taught courses in formal logic to 1st and 2nd year students at my College. As an integral part of the course, I require students to become familiar with a few dedicated applications; e.g., software for symbolic logic from LCA Software (NY), QX Software (KY), and a large program called SANDY from the U. of Miami. Initially, the material was available only on the VAX. Now we run it on a network of IBM-compatibles. The software performs a number of tasks: (1) it gener- ates examples demonstrating the use of the concepts of soundness and validity; (2) it checks symbolizations from English into the language of first-order logic; (3) it acts as a proofchecker and and proof gener- ator when required. I've got virtually free access to a 25 seat lab, so I regularly schedule classes in it. Many of my colleagues from other schools haven't this freedom. Logic software abounds these days. You can get a huge amount of information about it from CDEC, the Center for the Development of Educational Computing at Carnegie-Mellon. A chap called Leslie Burkholder is in charge and is editor of a quarterly called Computers & Philosophy. At UMCP (I'm a recent graduate - PhD in philosophy last May), you might contact Lars Svenonius in the Phil Dept. Lars has written some logic software and uses it, I be- lieve, in some of his classes. I hope this is useful. Best wishes. Stan Godlovitch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ames!pdn.paradyne.com!reggie (George Leach) Organization: AT&T Suncoast Division, Largo FL Ellen, Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Dr. Murray Turoff, both at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, have been involved in the computerized conferencing area for a long time. Furthermore, they have been exploring the virtual classroom concept since 1968. I received my MSCS from NJIT about three and a half years ago. One of the courses I took there involved the heavy usage of the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES). Dr. Shneiderman at UMD knows Turoff and Hiltz and their work quite well. You may want to talk to him before proceeding. His e-mail address is mimsy!ben. The phone number I have for Dr. Turoff is (201) 596-3399. I'm not sure if this has changed or not since I left New Jersey in 1987. I don't have a current e-mail address to give you either. The main switchboard at NJIT is (201) 596-3000. You can call there and ask for the Computer Science Department, and from there reach either Hiltz or Turoff. One of my good friends still teaches at NJIT in the evenings. However, he is not involved with Turoff or Hiltz. But he may be able to obtain contact info for you, if you don't want to phone NJIT. His name is Frank Greco. He is currently consulting with Shearson, Lehman, Hutton, in New York and can be reached at fgreco@shearson.com. Good Luck, George -- George W. Leach AT&T Paradyne reggie@paradyne.com Mail stop LG-133 Phone: 1-813-530-2376 P.O. Box 2826 FAX: 1-813-530-8224 Largo, FL 34649-2826 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MCLARKE@AC.DAL.CA Try the Ontario Dept. of Education, who in association with Bull Systems has been trying to implement this strategy and even went to the extent of designing their own computer system (Icon) or (Beaver) I think. That is Ontario, Canada. If you are looking for a phone number try area code 416 for Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The office is a provincially run government depeartment. Mike Clarke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: <SRA3@PSUVM.PSU.EDU Hello Ellen Yu! We, too, are working on this idea. We're in the process of developing our own courseware for a univeristy class. Perhaps these references will be helpful to you: Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia just had an excellent conference on "Computers in Healthcare Education". They showcased several medical programs that are developing interactive courseware for educating medical students. The contactperson there is: Rodney Murray, Ph.D., 1020 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19107-5587, (215) 955-4965. Penn State just had a "Mac in the Classroom"teleconference which described and gave examples of several successful computer-assisted course. Unfortunately I don't know yet exactly who put that on, but I know that one of the best applications was in Santa Barbara CA by an instructor named Brian Fagan, who did an archeology simulation on computer. They also described programs at Jackson Community College in Jackson MI, University of Texas at Austin, St. Petersburg Junior College in Florida and Vanderbilt University in Physics, Math and Engineering. Hope this is helpful to you. I look forward to your summary. If you want to contact me, I'm: Sally Anger, M.S. (my colleauge here is Cheryl Achterberg, Ph.D.) Penn State Nutrition Center PSU 417 East Calder Way University Park, PA 16801-5663 (814) 865-6323 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: YACKULIC@sask.usask.ca Ellen, I am an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada. With a couple of colleagues, I have been developing instructional strategies intended to blend computers within a more traditional teacher/professor-centred environment. Our goal is to use the computer to facilitate learning rather than to teach about computing. (A student might use a computer to help him learn about geography, say, in the same fashion as a student uses a calculator in math class). Several years ago, Digital Equipment Corporation and the Saskatchewan government funded a 'teacher-centred, computer-supported classroom' in my building. I chaired the planning and research committee for this project. The classroom has a capacity of 40 students and is considerably larger than lecture rooms with the same capacity. Student seating is arranged in modules; each module (for eight students) contains a group discussion table, an overhead projection system, a "white-board", 4 DEC VAXmates (286 MSDOS machines with wonderfully low profiles), a video camera and playback system, and individual note taking areas for each student. The teaching area/station at the front of the room has a computer, an overhead projection system (capable of displaying computer graphics, video tapes, etc.), a sound system, and video tablet in addition to more conventional support facilities (a white board, overhead projector, etc.). The computers are connected to our campus-wide ethernet system and can access any of the several dozen campus mainframes (eg, the library system, academic/ research mainframes, government databases, ...). The machines can be booted locally or from one of several DEC PC servers. In general, we boot the machines from a dedicated (to the classroom) DECstation 2000 which is housed somewhere along the ethernet in the bowels of a distant building. The room is used for 2 main types of instruction: 1] curricula in non-computer subjects where the machine is used to facilitate learning (as described above) and 2] to support our computer-literacy program. I hope this information is of some help to you. Feel free to contact me if you require additional information. I am interested in learning about other sites you identify as a result of your request. Cordially, Al Yackulic Department of Educational Psychology University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada S7N 0W0 306-966-7723 "Yackulic@SASK.USASK.CA" Central Standard Time Zone ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: welte@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Martha Welte) Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci Dr. Anthony Ralston at State Univerity of New York at Buffalo is supervising a seminar on the topic "How to use computers _in the classroom_ to teach finite mathematics. That is, a bunch of grad students and he are getting together to read some papers and perhaps create ways to use computers during classes. Ralston is originally and mathematician and is a long-time tenured faculty member of the computer science department. His primary interest is in how to teach mathematics and computer science. I don't know if this is what you are looking for, since it is not implemented. It seems as if this may be one step before what you are looking for. Martha G. Welte ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Peter Montgomery <pmontgom@math.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA Mathematics Dept. The College Mathematics Journal has a regular column about the use of computers and calculators in the mathematics curriculum. -- Peter L. Montgomery pmontgom@MATH.UCLA.EDU Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 If I spent as much time on my dissertation as I do reading news, I'd graduate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Lisa Wolfisch <lingling@wam.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Hi, I'm in the GEOG department here at College Park. We have a project that was developed a couple of years ago that uses interctive video/computer resources in georgaphy lessons. The person to contact for info about it would be Derek Thompson x54063. He is big into the use of computers in the classroom, and in fact, I am taking his class this semester which is all about the use of interactive technology in geography education. Also, take a look at the group comp.multimedia. --Lisa -- Lisa Wolfisch "Life is too short to wear ugly underwear." Laboratory for Computer Mapping and Spatial Analysis Disclaimer: Ha! My employer doesn't even know about this account! lingling@wor.umd.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hb136@leah.Albany.edu (Herb Brown) Organization: State University of New York at Albany Ellen, Some college and university mathematics departments have experimented with the use of computers in laboratories as a supplement to lectures. The Math Dept at The Univ at Albany designed a Computer Classroom in which we offer a full range of courses from freshman claculus to junior/senior courses in analysis and algebra. This may very well be the first time the computer has been made an integral part of the classroom experience in mathematics. Students learn mathematics by simultaneously interacting with the computer, with the instructor, with the blackboard, and with fellow students. They are encouraged to collaborate throughout the course, including during the writing of examinations. It is an extraordinarily rich learning environment whose power and potential have not yet been fully realized. Herb ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb Brown Math Dept The Univ at Albany Albany, NY 12222 (518) 442-4640 hibrown@leah.albany.edu or hibrown@cs.albany.edu or hb136@ALBNYVMS.BITNET ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ Ellen Yu | Phone: (301) 403-4623 office Computer Science Center | (301) 474-9217 home 4321 Hartwick Rd., Suite 500 | Internet: eyu@umd5.umd.edu College Park, MD 20740 | Compuserve: 71641,1764