e-Learning

Kappar

I was talking to a few friends that go to UCD and they were telling me about Blackboard They all seemed to be agreeing that it is useful.

Which got me thinking should TCD get its own "Blackboard"? Do some course already have one?

What do people think?

PrecariousNuts

MIT does that too, http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

We do have a network like this, namely webcourse.tcd.ie. For JF and SF engineering anyways, it has just a small amount of information (though one of our courses has the entire syllabus on it, albeit a year out of date). At the same time, some lecturers have information on their own websites. It would be great if all tutorials were available somewhere on the web, but in all honesty there are lecturers who are completely against the idea of putting up their course on the net.

Still would be handy though...

ApeXaviour

Cheers for that MIT one precarious, got some quality thermochem notes for friday exam..

Yeah it would be a good idea.. The way lecture notes are organised now are very sporadic, it's really at the lecturers whim. Some have a consistent website with quality notes. Some you have to access some folder of theirs through the network. And some you can't even get!

Nietzschean

well half mine would be for it, other half against, so won't quite make it to a website....and ye can't re-publish their notes either without premission n all dat crap :S

in the cases where they are for it , tis already available on their webbies usually....(tho then our lecturers would be more computer litterate than most i spose)

PrecariousNuts

For any maths/physics students heres a dead handy page
http://www.geocities.com/alex_stef/mylist.html

It's like some sort of black hole of information alas it's waaaay over my head for now.

sleepingbeauty

thanks for that precarious..wont look at it for a little while-dont want to scare myself as too how little i know (ive forgotten the entire 1st yr course already which cant be good)
anyway was just thinking, apparently there's some website that has all the sf phy write ups on it, they model them on it?? i guy i know in js told me bout it, will have to ask him the site again for this yr because ive forgotten it...unless any of you guys know it?!

ApeXaviour

Yeah there's two sites, they were of great use to me..

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~tkachev/sf_physics.html

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~pwalsht

The latter chap's physics write ups aren't great but there are also chem ones there which are handy.. One chem experiment is undoable without methinks..

ApeXaviour

May I also refer you to the college regulations regarding plagiarism:
http://www.tcd.ie/Science/local/pdf/UnitCourseBk0405/plagiarism.pdf

sleepingbeauty

point taken apex

PrecariousNuts

Can you copy and paste it here, some of us can't access it yet.

ApeXaviour

No but I can host it for you:
http://www.iol.ie/~amity/plagia~1.pdf

aodh_rua

College has a Centre for Learning Technology (office directly below mine), and they help lecturers deliver tailored online courses to supplement their lectures. The problem is that some staff are very enthusiastic and make good use of this resource while most of the rest don't use it at all.