Results from Two Years of Web-Based Astronomy Teaching

Session 4 - The WWW and Astronomy Education.
Display session, Monday, January 13
Metropolitan Ballroom,

[4.02] Results from Two Years of Web-Based Astronomy Teaching

J. Wallin (George Mason U.)

During the last two years, course notes, supplimental material, bulletin boards, and an interactive quiz system have been developed for the introductory astronomy course at George Mason University. In this talk, I will present results about the level of Web literacy, Web usage, and educational effectiveness of this system based on in-class surveys and test results. The results presented are based on a 300 person survey course composed primarily of non-science majors. Although this course currently includes a lecture section, we plan to offer this as a web-based distance learning course within six months.

If you would like more information about this abstract, please follow the link to astro.gmu.edu/classes/a10696.html. This link was provided by the author. When you follow it, you will leave the the Web space for this meeting; to return, you should use the Back button on your browser.

The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: jwallin@gmu.edu

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