In a survey conducted recently by Carleton's Teaching in the Electronic World Task Force, 38.8 percent of respondents indicated that they wanted more opportunities to see how their colleagues were using technology to enhance teaching. Three presentations are scheduled for this term. The inaugural session on November 14 featured the 'Courses Online' facilities of Carleton's CHAT system. On November 21, chemistry professor Bob Burk will host Teaching First Year Chemistry Electronically . Course offers on-line features Carleton's CHAT facility is now equipped with Courses Online , a series of electronic course facilities.
All courses now have a newsgroup created automatically at the beginning of term.
The course newsgroup is a public forum for discussion which allows students, instructors and teaching assistants to post questions, discuss course topics and set up study groups. Every course section is also provided with a central course Webpage, which includes links to the on-line Calendar description, the class schedule and the course newsgroup. TheWebpage also lists the course instructors and their email addresses. Online forms permit instructors to add course announcements, links to their own course Web page and to their personal Web page as well as the names of the course teaching assistants. When students use either the text or the graphical CHAT interface, they may select 'My Course Information'.