The other point of this thread is e-mail vs. handouts. At our institution we have gone almost totally to providing everything online (we have a home grown product called Oncourse. Students are told at orientation (when they get themselves put into the system) and at the registrar's office if they get there, that they are expected to get their syllabus on line and also that they will get instructions as to how the person teaching their class would deal with notes, assignments, and other materials. We have no problem with most students; however, there are always those who don't pay attention until they miss something and then ask for forgiveness because they didn't follow directions. By the way, one of the major reasons that we went to this system is that in a two year period (prior to the new policy) our printing costs increased by nearly 200%. We now have a low printing budget and a little more money to put into faculty travel and other things.
Dr. Bob Wildlbood
Lecturer in Psychology
Indiana University Kokomo
Kokomo, IN 56904-9003
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On 29 Apr, 2004, at 9:48, Deb Briihl wrote:
I prefer to have students use technology outside of class. A common problem is that if students have computer access in class, then a good percentage will be checking e-mail, chatting, surfing the web, playing games, etc. rather than listening to the lecture. All of us who have taught in a computer lab would love to have a power kill switch at our desks to be able to turn off the monitors.
As to the handouts - I just put them on my website if I am not using WebCT for my class.
At 09:51 AM 4/29/2004 -0400, you wrote:
