I think the idea of doing an elearning module for the introductory physics course is an interesting idea. But I think what you are proposing has more to do with the development of what has been called "learning objects" that actual e-learning. I think developing learning objects is feasible but you need to read up on this a bit more. Indeed I think there are fair amount of materials developed for physics for teaching purpose. Please do a bit of research on this and perhaps we could discuss this in person after you have a chance to review what's already been developed. Please get back to me early in the week and we will go from there. Thank you.
October 31, 2004 at 2:37 PM
I was talking to my sister today and an idea came across. Real E-learning hasn't really been introduced in the University of Toronto setting yet (at least not as I know) and I think it would be a great idea to incorporate that into my project. I will not only research about good E-learning, but can also apply it. The first year physics course PHYA10, has always been a hard one for students and the class average has always been low. As a past student in this course, I found the textbook to be very unuseful and expensive. Therefore, I thought that for my project, I can develop an E-learning program for a part of this course giving students the theory needed and lots of examples. Because I have taken this course before, I will know where students have difficulties and can focus on those parts. I think that this will help me even more in my future teaching career. I've been reading up on what makes good E-learning lately, and I would be able to jump into the planning stage and contact the professor of this course, Prof. Tawfiq. Pleas give me feedback on this idea.
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I think the idea of doing an elearning module for the introductory physics course is an interesting idea. But I think what you are proposing has more to do with the development of what has been called "learning objects" that actual e-learning. I think developing learning objects is feasible but you need to read up on this a bit more. Indeed I think there are fair amount of materials developed for physics for teaching purpose. Please do a bit of research on this and perhaps we could discuss this in person after you have a chance to review what's already been developed. Please get back to me early in the week and we will go from there. Thank you.
October 31, 2004 at 2:37 PM