phyllis@utcsrgv.UUCP (Phyllis Eve Bregman) (03/03/84)
UofT Department of Computer Science Seminar Schedule for
the week of March 5th, 1984
Tuesday, March 6th, 4:00 P.M., GB244: Professor Marc Brown,
Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island: "The electronic classroom: The future of
undergraduate computer science education".
ABSTRACT: At Brown University we have recently opened an "Electronic
Classroom", that is, a specially built lecture hall containing 60
high-performance graphics-based workstations connected by a
high-bandwidth resource-sharing local area network. Courses use
this hardware, coupled with an innovative course/software
environment, as the principal medium of communication. Rather than
explain a concept using a blackboard or viewgraph, instructors are
able to use dynamic graphic presentations. Moreover, students are
able to interact with these "real-time" movies themselves.
Our recent experiences in teaching the introductory programming
course and the algorithms and data structures course will be discussed,
and sample material will be illustrated in a videotape. In addition,
the conceptual framework behind the courseware/software environment,
as well as its implementation, will be described.
[For background reading, a copy of the Brown University technical
report CS-83-28 has been put in the Computer Science Library.]
--
Phyllis Eve Bregman
CSRG, Univ. of Toronto
{decvax,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,allegra,utzoo}!utcsrgv!phyllis
CSNET: phyllis@toronto
(416) 978 6985